On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 2:23 AM, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
I would see nothing wrong, in that instance, with a soft-redirect page saying something to the effect of "Please see the news article for this event on Wikinews (insert link here)", if that really is the appropriate thing to redirect to. Other times, it may have to be mentioned on a disambiguation page or the like. And if we do wind up with an article on a "flash in the pan" event that turns out not to be appropriate for an encyclopedia article, we could always redirect it to the Wikinews archive in the same way. Benefits Wikinews (by making sure it gets eyeballs), benefits us (by making sure we -don't- get those types of articles and that news stays on the project designed to work with it).
A redirect to wikinews was in place for a while when this was a current story:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Former_Chief_Operating_Officer_of_Wikimedia_Foun...
Penwhale replaced a biog with with a soft-redirect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=177836977
I have just now restored a little of this article deleted history, from Penwhale's edit on-wards, as that doesn't include any of the biographics edits. I hope others will agree that these undeleted edits are _interesting_ from a collaborative management angle and that there is little need to keep those edits hidden.
(I have specifically chosen to avoid mentioning the name of the subject as it isnt the interesting part; I hope others will do the same.)
-- John Mark Vandenberg