[WikiEN-l] Defamatory Biographies - another problem loomingforWikipedia?

Thu Dec 22 03:53:52 UTC 2005

Conrad Dunkerson wrote:

> Bryan Derksen wrote:
>
>> Every type of stub I've seen so far has some sort of corresponding 
>> non-stub category that the article can be placed in, so whenever I 
>> remove extra stub templates I make sure the article's properly 
>> categorized. They don't get "lost" that way.
>
> Hmmm... instead of having a hierarchy of 'categories' and a parallel 
> hierarchy of 'stub categories' it might make sense to just have one 
> hierarchy and a single generic stub notice. Only drawback I can see is 
> that there isn't currently a simple way to identify 'articles in this 
> category with a stub notice' or 'articles in category-1 AND 
> category-2'. Still, it probably wouldn't be too difficult to have 
> category views with 'display only articles also in the Stub category'. 
> Would cut the categorization and sorting work significantly. 

A slightly more advanced search function might help that.

Ec