On 8/7/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)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