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There are various selection pages that are used, along with article pages, in the Wikipedia article namespace.
There are 8 major types of Wikipedia selection pages:
Those are the major types of Wikipedia selection pages.
The concept of disambiguation pages arose early within Wikipedia, due to the issue of " name collisions" when choosing article names. For example, the name " Mississippi" can refer to one of the U.S. states, the Mississippi River, the indigenous North American tribe, or one of various ship names, etc. A disambiguation page was an easy extension to allow readers to choose among the related articles.
The use of list-pages was a heavily debated issue, all during 2005–2006, due to the potential for numerous indiscriminate lists of information to be easily created for hundreds of subset combinations, such as "List of Austrian towns with left-handed, blue-eyed mayors". However, the benefits of using lists were recognized for quickly presenting related information, while avoiding the work of writing a separate Wikipedia article for every item in a list. Yet, it took months for many people to realize a list could avoid creating all of the spin-off articles, unless needed, such as with the page " List of African daisy diseases".
Meanwhile, lists were even rejected as parts of numerous articles, until the realization that lists inside an article could also reduce the proliferation of tiny spin-off articles for each item, such as listing the top hit recordings of a musician, the major roles of an actor, or listing most of the members of a ball team, rather than creating numerous, separate Wikipedia articles for each and every recording, film role, or team member.
Meanwhile, across the world, people translating articles into the other-language Wikipedias confirmed the fantastic speed revolution that keeping lists in articles were fostering. Lists were so many, many, many times easier and faster to translate into other languages, that it seemed that lists had been invented by the world's smartest man of all nations, of all periods in human history. By comparison, the prose text in articles became mired in the tedious translation of joined phrases and dependent sub-clauses, resulting in many translated articles becoming mostly the obvious lists of items, or the infoboxes, after a single introductory sentence in each article.
As of April 2009, many thousands of list-pages exist within the English Wikipedia.
This is an
essay. It contains the advice or opinions of one or more Wikipedia contributors. This page is not an encyclopedia article, nor is it one of
Wikipedia's policies or guidelines, as it has not been
thoroughly vetted by the community. Some essays represent widespread norms; others only represent minority viewpoints. |
There are various selection pages that are used, along with article pages, in the Wikipedia article namespace.
There are 8 major types of Wikipedia selection pages:
Those are the major types of Wikipedia selection pages.
The concept of disambiguation pages arose early within Wikipedia, due to the issue of " name collisions" when choosing article names. For example, the name " Mississippi" can refer to one of the U.S. states, the Mississippi River, the indigenous North American tribe, or one of various ship names, etc. A disambiguation page was an easy extension to allow readers to choose among the related articles.
The use of list-pages was a heavily debated issue, all during 2005–2006, due to the potential for numerous indiscriminate lists of information to be easily created for hundreds of subset combinations, such as "List of Austrian towns with left-handed, blue-eyed mayors". However, the benefits of using lists were recognized for quickly presenting related information, while avoiding the work of writing a separate Wikipedia article for every item in a list. Yet, it took months for many people to realize a list could avoid creating all of the spin-off articles, unless needed, such as with the page " List of African daisy diseases".
Meanwhile, lists were even rejected as parts of numerous articles, until the realization that lists inside an article could also reduce the proliferation of tiny spin-off articles for each item, such as listing the top hit recordings of a musician, the major roles of an actor, or listing most of the members of a ball team, rather than creating numerous, separate Wikipedia articles for each and every recording, film role, or team member.
Meanwhile, across the world, people translating articles into the other-language Wikipedias confirmed the fantastic speed revolution that keeping lists in articles were fostering. Lists were so many, many, many times easier and faster to translate into other languages, that it seemed that lists had been invented by the world's smartest man of all nations, of all periods in human history. By comparison, the prose text in articles became mired in the tedious translation of joined phrases and dependent sub-clauses, resulting in many translated articles becoming mostly the obvious lists of items, or the infoboxes, after a single introductory sentence in each article.
As of April 2009, many thousands of list-pages exist within the English Wikipedia.