[WikiEN-l] What is an orphan?

2009-02-06 Thread Charles Matthews
Article in the Signpost: [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-01-31/Orphans]]. But in my view calling an article with two respectable incoming links an orphan is quite misleading. Charles ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia, the overly standarised Encyclopedia you wouldn't dare edit

2009-02-06 Thread Andrew Gray
2009/2/6 White Cat wikipedia.kawaii.n...@gmail.com: We are now forced to use US style dates... Thus it is the American Encyclopedia internationals (non USians) should feel uncomfortable in visiting let alone editing. (...) In the past we had multiple correct ways. For example the use of ISO

Re: [WikiEN-l] What is an orphan?

2009-02-06 Thread Jay Litwyn
In the most literal sense, an article with one parent is not an orphan. Just remember that a statistician was looking at graphs when she said two or less. True orphans hav no incoming links. Outgoing links are more desirable when the topic is jeneral, like Arts or Enjineering. Charles Matthews

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia, the overly standarised Encyclopedia you wouldn't dare edit

2009-02-06 Thread K. Peachey
hard coded? This is news to me and news to the Manual of Style. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSNUM#Full_date_formatting Perhaps you could provide some evidence to back up this assertion? Almost all templates these days are designed to have dates entered in a certain way and for a hint its

Re: [WikiEN-l] What is an orphan?

2009-02-06 Thread Alvaro GarcĂ­a
You know, there's a letter called G... -- Alvaro On 06-02-2009, at 12:17, Jay Litwyn brewh...@edmc.net wrote: In the most literal sense, an article with one parent is not an orphan. Just remember that a statistician was looking at graphs when she said two or less. True orphans hav no