--- Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
I don't think we really have a big difference here. All that would be left to delete after a month is a redirecting article with a long title that is too long to be something that would be used in a search. I know the argument that redirect articles take up minimal space in the DB. I clashed with Mav on that when I was suggesting in my newbie days that some old Camel Case titles should be deleted.
Mav's only human -- and back in those days, old CC titles were still fresh -- just because WP upgraded, dont mean that you get rid of all those nice searchwords. This is why all the list business got brought up again -- a year ago Jimbo found that Google just fell in love with "list of" pages and said so on the list (mail) --it instantly became policy that something like a [[list of theoretical opinions on the exact contents of Britney Spears underpants]] was going to get WP *hits!, and therefore --people "saw that it was good."
Now of course we deal with the fact that all of these [[lists of famous last meal toasts and/or last beverages]] are actually noticeable and "hurt the integrity of Wikipedia" far more than the stubs do -- stubs are nice to newbies (no politics), and are at least excusable, which is more than can be said for the [[list of how famous people like their coffee, cream and sugar]].
~S~ "Reaching for an oversized chrome spoon he gathers an intimate quantity of dried muffin remnants ..."
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