On 8/7/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I'd really like "without redirects" because when I say "ten or twenty" above, I mean actual articles - most of what I create is redirects, typically when I've typed "wp something" into Firefox or Seamonkey to look up something, not found what I expected then had to either redirect it to the article or write the article.
Also, do you count stubs in that? I've gotten into a weird habit of creating stubs about things I don't know anything about, because sometimes it just seems wrong to "fix" a wrong link by making it a redlink...
(I create tons of redirects to enhance our usefulness - a forest of sensible redirects helps people find what they're looking for when they type something into the search box. Article-space redirects should almost never be removed unless they're actually misleading or derogatory or something.)
I do this too, scores of them. RfD is an interesting place sometimes, mostly they seem to hate cross-namespace redirects.
(note that *that* problem would probably go away if we had a convenient way of searching the Wikipedia project, as opposed to its encyclopaedic content)
Steve