--- "Michael R. Irwin" mri_icboise@surfbest.net wrote:
It seems like silly makework to me.
The article will be recreated again anytime anyone clicks on one of the links leading to it.
If it is a good title then it is an invitation for anyone who encounters it to add to it.
Here's the situation. Pretend Wikipedia had not article on, say, the Protestant Reformation. Someone follows a link to the empty article, edits the page and types "sadlhfhg". Now, when someone is reading another article with a link to the Protestant Reformation, it looks like we have an article. If they don't visit the page, they won't know that there's actually no article. If, however, the Protestant Reformation page was deleted, people will see empty links and think, "Hmmm... we should really have something on that topic."
Also, having existing but empty articles breaks the functionality of pages like "Most Wanted".
Stephen G.
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