On 12/5/05, Anthony DiPierro
<wikilegal(a)inbox.org> wrote:
I think it'd be a good feature to have,
though I don't think it'd
solve many of the problems this thread is talking about. There really
isn't any point in having an orphaned article. If you can't find
*somewhere* to create a link from (at least a list or something), then
why have an article in the first place? Making contributors more
motivated - that's *usually* a good thing, right?
One caveat, though. This would probably be best
implemented only in
the article namespace. Orphaned user pages, for instance, make a lot
more sense.
Anthony
Due to the way history works it would be quite hard to create a truely
orphaned user page.
--
geni
Due to the way the mediawiki database is set up, it'd be extremely
difficult to check whether or not there were links from the history,
though. The only practical definition of orphaned I can think of
would be "containing no links in the 'what links here' section".
Anthony