Talk:List of Asia-related topics
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Any opinion on that? I am going to post Table of Contents of that Encyclopedia here. I don't think table of contents (just name of articles) can be copyrighted. It will help organize the articles on wiki and provide a list of missing articles OneGuy 07:46, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- (1) Sorry but I don't see how it will do anything to help organize the articles on wiki. (2) You're certainly right that it will provide a list of articles to be included, and (possible copyright issues aside) I applaud you for doing this. But, in view of (1), why make regular articles? It seems to me that these would much better be subpages (or whatever they're called) of your user page. -- Hoary 09:37, 2004 Dec 25 (UTC)
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- There was no effort actually :)). I just wrote a java program that automatically put "*" to the list and wikified them. Took me 15 minutes. I haven't added all of them. I will post the rest of them now OneGuy 09:52, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Why would people think the index would lead to those article? There is an index of the book The 100 (book) on wiki. I don't think anyone thinks the links lead to articles in the book. In any case, I like the index even if it's removed it was taken from Encyclopedia of Modern Asia. OneGuy 10:22, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)
The value of the TOC is not so much as a resource for readers, but as a workpage for editors looking to fill out our coverage, and therefore should be in the Wikipedia: namespace, a la Wikipedia:1911 Encyclopedia topics and the like. Stan 21:49, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- TOC is useful for someone who just wants to browse through a list of topics related to a subject (in this case Asia) to see if he/she can find something interesting. Many of the dead links in this list only need redirects. I think we should have more TOC on different topics actually OneGuy 22:27, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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- Indeed, but we want it to be our index, not an exact copy of somebody else's. I guarantee you we have hundreds of articles on modern Asia that are not in the EoMA index (I know because I wrote some of them) - but this index can't be legitimately modified, because this is an index of the already-published EoMA, not a steadily-expanding list of what Wikipedia has. If you want a general index, the standard is to call it list of Asia-related topics or some such. Stan 05:53, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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- You can move it if you want, but give the credit that the list was initially taken from EoMA and has been bee modified/expanded OneGuy 18:15, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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The list is a great tool as is: We can check how complete Wikipedia already is on Asian topics. @Oneguy:
- Can you create a second list that collects all the red links only? I just created some 70 redirects from the list. If we had a list with red links only, we could bring it to zero lemma by lemma. And even have a fluffy percentile progress bar.
- A second list I would suggest is collecting all articles that are listed in Category:Asia and all subcategories of it. This would be a complete index of Wikipedia on Asia. I think this is what some users already suggested on this talk page.
-- Mkill 22:18, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
