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Conflation
[edit]The whole article conflates what the 'degree' is; the item/person or the connection, the node or the path. The opening text has person as the degree. The examples of two-degrees etc. have the path as the degree, with three items separated by two links. The semantics need to be cleaned up.
Removal of "Articles with no connections to each other" section
[edit]Currently, the section in question discusses completely unconnected pages such as Basque → Bisque. However, this is unremarkable for two reasons:
- Firstly, in the case above, this works solely because Bisque is an orphaned disambiguation page (i.e. it has no mainspace articles linking to it). As such, there is nothing special about Basque being the starting destination; the lack of connections is also true between Biscotti and Bisque, or Business and Bisque, or Donald Trump and Bisque, or Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon and Bisque, or...
- Secondly, this phenomenon is not unique to Bisque: the same would be true of any orphaned article, of which there are currently around 53,210 (plus or minus a couple thousand)—which is definitely far too many for this scenario to be noteworthy. For example, this same phenomenon would be true (at least, as of June 16th, 2020) for Jackpot → The Jackpots (link), or Egg → Egg puffs and soup pearls (link), or Youth in Africa to Youth in Denmark (link), or Quran to Qar`an (link), or St. John's Church, Leukershausen to St. John's Church, Thiruvaniyoor (or St. John's Fire District or St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church (Charleston, South Carolina), for that matter) (link1, link2, link3), and so on. And I was able to find all seven of these examples after ~10 minutes of searching, thus demonstrating that this type of scenario is quite common and not particularly remarkable.
Hence, I have removed the section in question due to its lack of noteworthiness. Now, if one were able to find two unconnected articles that both aren't orphans and both aren't inside walled gardens, that might be worth mentioning—but we can cross that bridge if we ever come to it.
(As a fun aside, I found that Basque and Bisque can be connected using five steps if one allows pages in Wikipedia space: Basque → List of people from the Basque Country → Alejandro González Iñárritu → Facebook → Six degrees of separation → Wikipedia:Six degrees of Wikipedia → Bisque.) — TheHardestAspectOfCreatingAnAccountIsAlwaysTheUsername: posted at 04:38, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
New high-chain ender
[edit]I've found around 25 chains (that are 7 nodes long) with the ending article "Kataouane". Feel free to do whatever with this information. Icosii (talk) 10:20, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
- just found an 8-chain from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C27H39NO7 to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kataouane Icosii (talk) 06:19, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
I found a new 10 degree
[edit]Red Onion to Mount McGhee 2601:1C0:8081:8D70:8B16:16A6:C138:A2AF (talk) 19:25, 20 December 2024 (UTC)