Yes, and the only solution is a frank admission that redirect is a
form of delete, and that a change to redirect if challenged requires
an AfD, and a change in deletion policy to say this. ditto for a
destructive merge, but it would be much harder to quantify what
amounts to "destructive" in such cases.
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 2:37 PM, White Cat
<wikipedia.kawaii.neko(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:26 PM, <WJhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
In a message dated 4/3/2008 11:24:51 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
wikipedia.kawaii.neko(a)gmail.com writes:
I have seen fair share of article butchering through mass
redirectification.>>
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Could you put this in language my third-grade intellect can understand?
Do you mean something like gutting an article with a simple redirect to
another article?
Wouldn't the article history contain the original article, that could be
at
least saved to user-space?
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Let me explain
- There exists an article "Alpha"
- There is a problem with article "Alpha"
- Article "Alpha" does not follow all guidelines and/or policies
- A user comes in and removes all content from Article "Alpha" and
redirects it to article "Beta" which has a related coverage.
- No content is added to article "Beta" in this process
- User calls this action a merge which is an editorial decision
independent from AFD
- Even pages of failed AFDs can be redirectified
This is what is happening in a nutshell. The topics this is happening range
from fiction related articles (episodes/characters) to highways (real world
related) as well as Townships among other topics.
- White Cat
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