This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Rexogamer (talk | contribs) at 20:06, 22 June 2021 (Adding local short description: "Wikimedia project page", overriding Wikidata description "Wikimedia project page" (Shortdesc helper)). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.
Revision as of 20:06, 22 June 2021 by Rexogamer (talk | contribs) (Adding local short description: "Wikimedia project page", overriding Wikidata description "Wikimedia project page" (Shortdesc helper))(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) Wikimedia project page This page is about the term walled garden as it applies to Misplaced Pages. For the main article, see Walled garden. "WP:GARDEN" redirects here. For the WikiProject concerning gardens, see Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening. "WP:WALL" redirects here. For a wall of text on Misplaced Pages, see Misplaced Pages:Wall of text. "WP:WG" redirects here. For the application, see User:BradBeattie/WikiGuard. For Misplaced Pages-based games, see Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages games. For the humorous essay, see Misplaced Pages:WikiGnome. Essay on editing Misplaced PagesThis is an essay. It contains the advice or opinions of one or more Misplaced Pages contributors. This page is not an encyclopedia article, nor is it one of Misplaced Pages's policies or guidelines, as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community. Some essays represent widespread norms; others only represent minority viewpoints. | Shortcuts |
This page in a nutshell: Articles should have outgoing and incoming links to the wider encyclopedia. Don't create a group of articles that exclusively link to each other. |
On many wikis, Misplaced Pages included, a walled garden is a set of pages or articles that link to each other, but do not have any links to or from anything outside the group. This can be a failure of linkage, or it can be an attempt to form a group of articles on essentially the same topic. This should especially be avoided on Misplaced Pages, where one of our core principles is building the web. While orphaned articles are far easier to detect than walled gardens, if you find several pages that only seem to link to each other, then be bold and, depending on the circumstances, add both outgoing and incoming links, or suggest a merge.