[UFO Chicago] Why Does Wikipedia Allow This?

[Neil R. Ormos]

Jay F. Shachter wrote:

After complaining that there's an
apparently-vandalized page on Wikipedia that
contains an internal link to a non-existent
article, Jay asks:

> Why are people allowed to do this?  I understand
> that Wikipedia wants its content to be editable
> by anyone, which implies that it is editable by
> adolescent pranksters.  By shouldn't there at
> least be a protection that if you insert a link
> to a page, that page should exist?  Is that so
> hard to do?  Is there any reason not to do it?

The more-or-less-official answers are available
here:

  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Red_link>