Cul De Sac

CulDeSac (a.k.a. a knot)

A Wiki page, or an interlinked set of pages, with no outbound links.

Once you're inside a CulDeSac, there's no way out (except through standard navigation links like BackLinks, FindPage, and LikePages). Some WalledGardens are CulDeSacs; creating either is discouraged on Wiki, because neither serves as a GoodEntryPoint to Wiki.

If you run across a CulDeSac, consider

• adding an outbound link
• refactoring it into a related page
• deciding whether it's a DeletionCandidate

Some ShortWikiPages are CulDeSacs.

• UseModWiki has a discussion of algorithms used to find CulDeSacs: http://usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?KnotDetection.
• See WikiLinkStructureAnalysis
• Contrast with OrphanPage

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