On 10/30/07, charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com
<charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
"David Gerard" wrote
There's little low-hanging fruit left, as
we've noted here
before - but any WikiProject will have endless lists of red links just
waiting for someone to do the legwork to research and write an
article.
Bah. I still dispute this.
Someone with university-level research facilities
should be
able to do a much better job than from a mere Googling, in not much
more time.
A proper library for writing a proper article, OK. But let's not propagate the
fallacy that one can't write a good stub any more.
Charles
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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.
WilyD