Lars Aronsson wrote:
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