On 28/03/2011, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 28 March 2011 20:15, Carcharoth
<carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
> My other theory is that writing stand-alone articles is not a good
> thing in the long-run. Articles should be created if there is a demand
> for the articles from people *other* than those creating the articles.
> In other words, enough *independent* and reasonable mentions/links in
> other Wikipedia articles.
> This prevents Wikipedia from disappearing up the fundament of its own
> obscurity. i.e. Create articles that will be found by people arriving
> from other articles, not obscure standalone articles that don't help
> fill in redlinks elsewhere on Wikipedia.
I think this risks damaging our long tail, which
is actually a killer
feature of en:wp.
Long tail is good, I like long tails, but when the tail gets atom-thick?
Some articles I've seen only get page hits from the random feature.
There needs to be a cut-off and the word we're looking for is 'merge'.
- d.
--
-Ian Woollard
Joel's Cafe could be merged into Bohemianism#American_bohemianism;
however, Joel was a philosopher who wrote famously on evolution and
bluenose neurosis: