[WikiEN-l] Long pages

Wed Jun 23 21:04:36 UTC 2004

Read a little more carefully please - I specifically limited my
suggestion to the "list of X topics" lists, which rarely if ever
have any useful content or organization and are not used by readers
(in fact editors generally ignore them too, most have become woefully
incomplete) *and* was only talking about removing the blue links,
in the same way that one would remove entries from a wanted articles
page. As the creator of some of the largest reader-oriented lists
in WP, I'm hardly eager to damage those!

Stan

Rick wrote:

>Woah, wait.  Are you saying that as items are added to categories (or vice versa), they should be deleted from the list page?  No, that's entirely inappropriate.  Lists serve an entirely different purpose from categories.  To begin with, they have red links that let users know that an article is needed.  I really don't think we should be destroying list pages just because categories are around!
> 
>RickK
>
>Stan Shebs <shebs at apple.com> wrote:
>Magnus Manske wrote:
>
>
>>Other lists ([[List of astronomical topics 
>>]], as an 
>>example) can be restructured into the category system, while leaving 
>>unwritten topics.
>>
>
>Since those kinds of lists are essentially pre-category attempts to
>make categories, I think it's worth using them like we do "list of
>encyclopedia topics" - remove topics as they are categorized, provide
>a link to the category at the top of the list as a hint about where
>the rest of the list went. Seems like these lists could become a
>better per-area substitute for the requested articles page, since the
>lists of topics will tend to become a list of unwritten articles
>that somebody thinks are needed.
>
>Stan
>
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