A category for pages that should be referred to Wiki Pedia.
One of the ideas is to gather data to see if it's justified to ask Ward to provide a special link syntax for Wiki Pedia. While this site is not necessarily committed Neutral Point Of View (but informed and well-argued opinion and insight is more appreciated here), there are topics that are perfectly suited for encyclopaedic, NPOV treatment. It would be foolish to try to duplicate the effort on Wiki Pedia, but we need to link to it.
So the recommended pattern is to create a C2 wiki page that contains just the link to Wiki Pedia, a horizontal line separator and Category Wikipedia Link. If later, Ward finds it justified to provide a Near Link for Wiki Pedia it will be easy for Wiki Gnome to refactor such links. -- Costin Cozianu
cf. Category External Link for discussion on a similar idea.
So I want to encourage contributors to defer to Wiki Pedia as much as possible, in order to avoid many problems like duplication of effort, redundancy in content, lack of focus and dissipation of energy, etc.
But if somebody feels that there is something insightful or an intelligent and informed opinion in addition to what is already written on Wiki Pedia, then probably C2 is a good candidate to host such content. If such is the case, then please delete Category Wikipedia Link from such a page. -- Costin Cozianu
I'm rather doubtful about this - not many pages merit it, and it seems more like an excuse for removing material that may be factual but is arbitrarily deemed of little worth here. Also, it's extremely unlikely that Ward would introduce a new syntax just to allow a short prefix for a Wikipedia url. --Anonymous Donnor
Yes, removing material that is of little worth here. There's already much better material at Wiki Pedia, so why would C2 bother ? Once And Only Once. For example, you restored the "material" in James Clerk Maxwell ? What's its value here ? To show that at some point somebody felt like copying a few phrases from an encyclopaedia to c2 and create one irrelevant page ? The energy and acrimony with which non-value is defended never ceases to amaze me. --Costin
See original on c2.com 