[Wikipedia-l] Deletions: cleaning up primary namespace

[Brion L. VIBBER]

On lun, 2002-04-08 at 13:05, Jimmy Wales wrote:
> lcrocker at nupedia.com wrote:
> > I think I have a reasonable method of cleaning up many of
> > the leftover pages in the main namespace that should be moved
> > to wikipedia: or meta [snip]
> > I think it's important to actually delete these for
> > several reasons.  [snip]
>
> You can count my vote for moving them, but like you, I'd like to 
> see a consensus on this first.

I'm beginning to think we should have a convenient article renaming
function that will preserve editing histories (and, optionally,
automatically create a redirect page). What think you?

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)