--- Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
I don't think we really have a big difference
here.
All that would be
left to delete after a month is a redirecting
article with a long title
that is too long to be something that would be used
in a search. I know
the argument that redirect articles take up minimal
space in the DB. I
clashed with Mav on that when I was suggesting in my
newbie days that
some old Camel Case titles should be deleted.
Mav's only human -- and back in those days, old CC
titles were still fresh -- just because WP upgraded,
dont mean that you get rid of all those nice
searchwords. This is why all the list business got
brought up again -- a year ago Jimbo found that Google
just fell in love with "list of" pages and said so on
the list (mail) --it instantly became policy that
something like a [[list of theoretical opinions on the
exact contents of Britney Spears underpants]] was
going to get WP *hits!, and therefore --people "saw
that it was good."
Now of course we deal with the fact that all of these
[[lists of famous last meal toasts and/or last
beverages]] are actually noticeable and "hurt the
integrity of Wikipedia" far more than the stubs do --
stubs are nice to newbies (no politics), and are at
least excusable, which is more than can be said for
the [[list of how famous people like their coffee,
cream and sugar]].
~S~
"Reaching for an oversized chrome spoon he gathers an
intimate quantity of dried muffin remnants ..."
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