While editing around here, I see a tremendous amount of articles that have a title like, “Do Something” with “(for Teens), (Teen Girls/Boys), (for Kids), (Girls/Boys only)” after the title. Many of these article are duplicates of more developed articles that really can apply to anyone, and I really don’t even think these duplicate articles are worth merging. For example, there’s tons of articles on “Be Pretty Cute and Popular”, and other things. What does everyone think?
I personally, think an elegant solution might be to create a separate site for teen topics that the teens might, themselves, oversee and maintain. There might be more latitude to give each younger contributor their “day in the sun.”— Each might be allowed to publish her or his own suite of articles. The teens might organize, improve, and consolidate the information however they see fit. Some better articles might be promoted out of the satellite site and onto the main site. Definitive superarticles might naturally evolve on each recurring subject, but it would be up to the members of the satellite community to work out.
@Serendipitee
That’s a good suggestion, but I wonder the engineering effort that would be required to set up such a thing. Also, what’s to prevent these low-quality article from still leaking onto the main site?
Jamie
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If an article is a duplicate, I would either merge or mark as a dup. If I saw a very popular article that was a duplicate I would lean more towards a title change and consider making edits myself or asking around in the forums to make this article more unique. Dups are based on the title so these similar article titles are definitely something that need sorting through.
