On 7/19/07, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Seriously. People are nominating perfectly sane if
misguided
redirects for deletion because no articles use them. Things like
[[Cammy (Street Fighter)]] are up because there's no other Cammy
articles. Which is fine, but someone who doesn't know that and is
trying to guess our naming conventions could type in. Similarly, we
have people seriously suggesting that [[The Twilight Zone (pinball)]]
is not a reasonable redirect for [[Twilight Zone (pinball)]].
These are the same people who also see nothing wrong with doing a
"merge and delete" with every duplicate article that pops up where a
preventative redirect should have been.
I had a long discussion with one of them, who ended up saying
something like "only the correct title should appear in the results of
[[Special:Search]]".
I told him that was complete B.S. because if we even half of the
redirects and disambiguation pages that we should have, nobody would
ever see the "Special:Search" screen unless they are intentionally
using that feature (even with database dumps and, of course, Google
available -- hello!).
Judging by the titles you mentioned I would say the idiots you are
dealing with on RFD are probably there because somebody told them they
were too stupid for AFD (but they still need to meet a certain quota
of project-space edits).
—C.W.