Erica wrote:
For example, I would delete "So-and-so is an
actress", but would
think twice about "So-and-so is an actress. She has appeared in
(bluelinked) movies X, Y, and Z." One asserts notability. The
other doesn't. I don't see what the problem is here.
Equally important as blue links going out from the article could
be existing (red) links from other, existing articles. Both kinds
of links could easily be counted by the server software when a new
article is created, and linkless articles could be flagged. Has
anybody tried to implement this?
There was (and may still be) a bot in use on the English Wikipedia which
adds a template to new articles with no incoming links. This is also
trivial for anyone looking at the article to check through
Special:Whatlinkshere. Articles with no links at all are likely to be
tagged as needing wikification (if they're just a mass of text) or for
deletion (if there's no useful content) by someone watching for new pages.
-Gurch