[WikiEN-l] Bad And Wrong Policy/Procedure/Guideline Hitlist

Mon Nov 6 12:27:04 UTC 2006

On 06/11/06, charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
<charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Maybe so, but not necessarily a tenable one. There are going to be articles on, say, string theory, where the content you need to approach the article at all will be behind some wikilinks. Same applied broadly across technical areas. Articles split out of general surveys, to cover something specialise in depth, should not be criticised for doing that and not something else. Not everyone likes the ten-second scroll to get to the meat.

Depends. This is an editorial style consideration. It should take
about half a sentence on the front to give context. e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXA has a somewhat clumsy "In computing,
in the X Window System, in the X.Org Server," on the front. Just a
quick "you are here," with the subtext "and you probably don't want to
be" for anyone who would find the article gibberish. The same should
be easily possible for mathematics, science and so forth.

- d.