On 30/10/2007, Wily D <wilydoppelganger(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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.
Little of what casual visitors would think of as low-hanging fruit, then!
> >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.
There's plenty of low hanging fruit for writing
good starts using just
teh google. In fact, I wrote one yesterday:
Oh yeah. I still find new things to write.
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.
This is bad. How to get across to the fervently anti-redlink (and they
exist) their error?
- d.