On 7/19/07, Phil Sandifer Snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
Can anyone quickly get me up to speed on when Redirects for Deletion... sorry. Redirects for "discussion" became a toxic hellhole of idiocy that makes the rest of our deletion procedures look sane?
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)]].
Seriously. When did we begin purging redirects, which are possibly the most harmless thing imaginable on Wikipedia. These are not offensive or POV redirects. They're sensible things that people might well guess when trying to type in an article name.
Not only harmless, but quite valuable. Traditional encyclos are quite close to the chest with their authority files -- of which the set of redirects is an integral part.
SJ