[WikiEN-l] A newbie on article prefill templating

Fri Dec 23 19:39:45 UTC 2005

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Mark Gallagher wrote:

> [[Lang Hancock]], which I bring up whenever I need to refer to a good
> article I've written (since, alas, it's the only really good one I can
> claim!), has References, External links, Further reading, and See also.
>
I had a quick look at this article & found it is a solid, useful piece,
the kind of work I've been looking for to add to [[Wikipedia:Good articles]].
I think it is just as important to recognize that spending 50 hours to
create, say, 25 solid & useful articles is just as valid as spending 50
hours to create one Featured Article. Considering the number of articles,
spending the time on more articles may be more worthy of praise.

Some of us are having trouble explaining that to a group at
[[Wikipedia talk:Good articles]]. Or maybe they are just afraid that as
it stands, saying that something like [[Lang Hancock]] is a Good Article
is arbitrary & therefore bad -- without acknowledging that for the most
part, everything on Wikipedia is arbitrary. (Although it helps in the
long run if you can articulate a reason for your actions.)

Geoff