On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
On 16 November 2013 19:55, Sarah Stierch sarah.stierch@gmail.com wrote:
Stumbled across this tonight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:HOTTIE
I have never seen that before!
"For example, as a general rule, girls named Tiffany and Alicia are almost always hot. Girls named Bertha and Bessie... not so much."
Just for the record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GlassCobra/Essays/Hotties_are_always_nota... is now the link. I've removed the shortcut because shortcuts are only supposed to be used in Wikipedia space, and this sure as heck doesn't belong in Wikipedia space!
Is there a policy/guideline against 'WP:' shortcuts that go to userspace?
We have a few categorised here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Redirects_to_user_namespace ... and obviously there are some which are not categorised like HOTTIE and FUGLY (see below).
Ryan Kaldari tried to delete WP:HOTTIE via process in 2010 and was rejected.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2010_Au...
It was also attempted in 2007:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2007_No...
And in 2009 the redirect which was about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FUGLY was also not deleted
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2009_Ju...
WP:HOTTIE at least is an attempt to be a sarcastic critic of notability and WP:AFD which is IMO pretty accurate ( or was when I hung out in those parts ), and WP:FUGLY probably tries to do the same, but doesnt have nearly the same value. If the reader doesnt see a lot of AFDs, WP:HOTTIE doesnt give enough context to be meaningful.
I think we should have a policy that WP:[anything] shortcuts lead the reader to something in Wikipedia: space, but it may be hard to convince the community that userspace pages cant have a shortcut, especially when they have 250 incoming links.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Wikipedia:H...
We don''t have a shortcut prefix for userspace essays listed here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut#List_of_prefixes
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
What about that concerns you? Incidentally I've nom'd the redirect for deletion.
which is here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2013_No...
-- John Vandenberg