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{{about|the term ''walled garden'' as it applies to Wikipedia|the main article|Walled garden}}<br />
{{redirect|WP:GARDEN|the WikiProject concerning gardens|Wikipedia:WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening}}<br />
{{redirect|WP:WALL|a wall of text on Wikipedia|Wikipedia:Wall of text}}<br />
{{redirect|WP:WG|the application|User:BradBeattie/WikiGuard|Wikipedia-based games|Wikipedia:Wikipedia games|the humorous essay|Wikipedia:WikiGnome}}<br />
{{essay|WP:WG|WP:WALL|WP:GARDEN}}<br />
{{nutshell|Articles should have outgoing and incoming links to the wider encyclopedia. Don't create a group of articles that exclusively link to each other.}}<br />
[[File:Ilnacullin garden.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|A walled garden on [[Ilnacullin]], Ireland]]<br />
On many [[wiki]]s, 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 can be a failure of linkage, or it can be an attempt to form a group of articles on essentially the same topic. This should especially be avoided on Wikipedia, where one of our core principles is [[WP:BUILD|building the web]]. While [[WP:orphan|orphaned articles]] are far easier to detect than walled gardens, if you find several pages that only seem to link to each other, then '''[[WP:BOLD|be bold]]''' and, depending on the circumstances, add both outgoing and incoming links, or suggest a [[Wikipedia:Merging|merge]].<br />
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* [[Wikipedia:Orphan]]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Orphanage]]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:Build the web]]<br />
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* [[c2:WalledGarden|WalledGarden]] on [[WikiWikiWeb]]<br />
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