[WikiEN-l] iCorrect

[Fred Bauder]

> On 28/03/2011, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 28 March 2011 20:15, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> My other theory is that writing stand-alone articles is not a good
>>> thing in the long-run. Articles should be created if there is a demand
>>> for the articles from people *other* than those creating the articles.
>>> In other words, enough *independent* and reasonable mentions/links in
>>> other Wikipedia articles.
>>> This prevents Wikipedia from disappearing up the fundament of its own
>>> obscurity. i.e. Create articles that will be found by people arriving
>>> from other articles, not obscure standalone articles that don't help
>>> fill in redlinks elsewhere on Wikipedia.
>
>> I think this risks damaging our long tail, which is actually a killer
>> feature of en:wp.
>
> Long tail is good, I like long tails, but when the tail gets atom-thick?
>
> Some articles I've seen only get page hits from the random feature.
>
> There needs to be a cut-off and the word we're looking for is 'merge'.
>
>> - d.
>
> --
> -Ian Woollard

Joel's Cafe could be merged into Bohemianism#American_bohemianism;
however, Joel was a philosopher who wrote famously on evolution and
bluenose neurosis:

http://books.google.com/books?id=xV4DAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&dq=%22Joel+Rinaldo%22&source=bl&ots=qdReuv31WD&sig=f0gOvLIHr2AsGVtUi4HCtKK2VeI&hl=en&ei=7yWOTbCqFoa5twfwvsWlDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=32&ved=0CIgBEOgBMB8#v=onepage&q=%22Joel%20Rinaldo%22&f=false

Fred