Wikipedia:Walled garden
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- This is an essay about the term "walled garden" as it applies to Wikipedia. For the real thing, see walled garden.
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- WP:WG redirects here. For WikiGuard, see User:BradBeattie/WikiGuard.
On many wikis, Wikipedia 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 is especially to be avoided on Wikipedia, 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 add both outgoing and incoming links to do your part in building the web.
