Atkinspedia:What is an article
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- See also: Atkinspedia:FAQ
A Atkinspedia article is defined as a page that has encyclopedic information on it. See Special:Allpages for a list of all Atkinspedia articles on Atkinspedia and its growth. An "article" does not include any pages in any of the specified namespaces that are used for particular purposes, such as:
- the Atkinspedia namespace for material about meta subjects related to Atkinspedia (example, Atkinspedia:Statistics and its talk page, Atkinspedia talk:Statistics);
- the talk namespaces for discussing what the content of pages should be (for example, Talk:Mathematics)
- the special namespace, whose pages are created by the software on demand (see Atkinspedia:Special pages);
- the user namespace for pages that are used by individual Atkinspedia writers (example, User:BrianZ).
- the image namespace which is used for describing and attributing images (example, Image:Great Horned Owl.USFWS.jpg)
- the MediaWiki namespace which is used to define shortcuts and other text strings used around Atkinspedia (example MediaWiki:Disclaimers)
But not all pages in the article namespace are considered to be articles; the most notable exceptions are:
- the Main Page;
- articles which contain no internal links;
- thousands of disambiguation pages which are used to resolve naming conflicts;
- thousands of "redirect" pages which are used to re-route one page to another page;
The automatic definition used by the software is: any page that is in the article namespace, is not a redirect page and contains at least one wiki link. The statistics software currently has no method of detecting disambiguation pages, however; nor does it disregard stubs (but in any case many articles tagged as stubs are quite substantial) or stublists (lists templates with little or no content).
See Atkinspedia:Naming conventions to learn how we title articles and Atkinspedia:List of protected pages for a list of pages that have been made read-only to non-Atkinspedia Administrators.
