[Wikipedia-l] policy suggestion: don't create pages for everything

tarquin tarquin at planetunreal.com
Sun Oct 13 23:15:57 UTC 2002


Andre Engels wrote:

>This still leaves the question of what to do once the great amount of pages
>has been created. The preferable option seems to be (to me) to move the
>text of the 'sub-pages' to the main page, and change the latter into redirects.
>However, if there is _one_ page that would reasonably be expected to link to
>these pages, it is the main page itself. But doing so in this way of combining
>things, would make these links self-links.
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I suggest:
* make the character pages into redirects. remove links from the main 
article. In the talk page of the main article, list the removed links, 
with a note to the effect that those topics do not yet have enough 
material to have articles to themselves






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