Stub pages on the community wiki?

[Matthew East]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Phil Bull<philbull at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 11:27 +0100, Andrew Sayers wrote:
>> A page on HUC that I look after[1] was recently edited.  The edit added
>> a link to [[Mono]] - a page that doesn't exist.  I'm not sure what to do
>> about this - I don't want to remove the link, because it makes a
>> reasonable point.  I don't want to leave it there, because it's a broken
>> link.  And I don't want to take responsibility for writing a [[Mono]]
>> page that I have no interest in.
>>
>> If this were Wikipedia, I would suggest creating a Mono "stub" page.
>> How would you guys feel about creating a "CategoryStub" (or
>> Category/Stub, if you liked my Playbook suggestion), and writing up a
>> small Mono stub page?
>> [1]http://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingToUbuntu/FromWindows/Configuring
>
> I think that the best course of action would be to link to the Mono
> project website [1]. The intention of the link is clearly to allow the
> reader to find out more about Mono, and where better to do that?

That seems like a good idea to me.

As for the "CategoryStub" suggestion, I think that we need to be
careful about the use of categories for what are essentially editorial
issues. Currently, we use Tags [1] for such issues, leaving the use of
categories to distinguish subject matter only.

[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Tag

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