Wikipedia talk:Writing better articles/Avoid making your articles orphans

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Supporters of this rule include: Clasqm, Larry Sanger, Damian Yerrick, Josh Grosse, 24

Opponents include: AxelBoldt (link chain is desirable, but orphans really do not cause problems, as most people use search engines) and David Cannon.

My opinion: This is good guidance , but it should not be regarded as a difficult and fast rule; this can result in more fake links, if the related articles are rare. Help category as well. Derrick Coetzee 23:44, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)

There are currently many articles in the Wikipedia namespace that try to provide guidance on how to write better articles. I propose consolidating this into a much smaller amount. On User: Jongarrettuk/Better writing guide I propose how this can be consolidated. The suggestion is not to change the suggestion, just to consolidate it. If I accidentally moved what you consider to be a good suggestion that currently exists in the Wikipedia namespace, re-add it. I hope that the proposal to incorporate all these articles, in principle, will be welcomed. Of course, it may be preferable to have 2, 3 or 4 interconnected articles rather than just one and would welcome suggestions on how this can be done. (In particular, maybe all the layout guides should be split into one consolidated article in the layout.) I'm also aware that placing many different bits of advice together can cause anomalies or bits that are now unmanageable (including bits that I itself does not agree with :)). I am asking for support for consolidation. After consolidation occurs, suggestions can be changed in the normal way. Feel free to improve consolidation of current concepts, but do not delete or add suggestions that are not currently available in the Wikipedia namespace. If all goes well, I'll add a new Wikipedia: Guide to writing better article pages on the 19th, though maybe some parts of the new article will need to be phased in a longer period of time. I will also be careful to preserve all archived discussions in one place. jguk 19:36, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)

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