On 31/10/2007, Wily D <wilydoppelganger(a)gmail.com> wrote:
There's plenty of low hanging fruit for writing
good starts using just
teh google. In fact, I wrote one yesterday:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La Cuisinière and last friday:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fournier_de_Belleval and the
friday before that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roméo Beaudry and so
on. It's really not very hard at all. The obiggest problem is
probably the anti-redlink culture that's growing very strong, that
keeps people uninformed on what needs writing.
More than anything else, the fact that writers are so strongly biased
against redlinks these days is a huge reason new page creation has
gone down.
It was only let to get this far because no-one was willing to make a
conclusive policy pro-redlinks. The extensive use of WP:CONTEXT does
not help in this way. In theory CONTEXT works because people are
discouraged from linking everything, but in practice with multi-person
inputs, it ends up being the absolute lowest set of links that people
are willing to accept, instead of a larger variety.
Personally, as a moderately red colourblind person, I think that red
text stands out just enough... I can't imagine the hassle about
reading redlinked articles that I have heard from normal vision
people.
Peter