Wikipedia:Integrate

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Wikipedia has articles and stubs that require merging, that have duplicate references, and that are orphans.

Integrate these three factors by organised:

Let's integrate, let's make it easier to find and maintain data: build it and they will come!

Approach

= Stage 1 =

  • Search various categories for stub articles. Stub articles belonging to a specific category with minimal content should be merged into a meta-article covering that subject matter.
  • Rather than delete old pages, redirects should be employed to reduce the chance of users making an article for the same subject. Furthermore, if the stub does have a chance to move beyond stub status, the article can be re-developed on its own merits as a category member.
  • Duplicate references should be identified by human or bot as a method of detecting merge-candidates, or overlooked category members. Furthermore, duplicate references that are required should be converted to a template that would appear uniformly on all category member pages.

= Stage 2 =

  • Parent categories of significant volume should be reasonably sub categorised. Template:CatDiffuse explains this process.
  • Templates should be used to eliminate redundant content within category articles.
  • Templates should also be used to link together disparate articles that relate to each other, but may not always be in the same category. See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Succession_Box_Standardization/Templates for suitable templates.

= Analogies =

Practical ways to help

Example articles that were created from meta-merging

See also