With the PWDS, they wouldn't show up as existing.
Why can't we just redirect ones that aren't encyclopedic to something
live WP:VAIN for vanity pages?
On 8/5/05, Ben E. <bratsche1(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I don't know if this is a totally acceptable
choice. Some articles are
simply not appropriate for the encyclopedia (borderline spam comes to mind,
and articles with an inherent POV also could be used as an example). Keeping
inappropriate blank articles would seem almost as an endorsement that we
want the subject material in Wikipedia. Also, wouldn't these articles
artificially inflate the total article count?
Ben/Bratsche
On 8/5/05, Dan Grey <dangrey(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Heh, y'know we could do the pure wiki deletion thing right now,
without the links-going-red thing. I've not checked but I bet a lot of
VfD candidates don't have many incoming links.
The only problem with articles that could need deletion, I believe, is
the chance of them showing up in searches. Diskspace etc doesn't
matter. To stop stuff getting searched whenever the index is updated,
is just to blank the article.
We could delete VfD again and do this right now. Debates about
blanking held on talk pages. We could put a blank articles make links
red thing in later.
Dan
PS: "More likely, the tagged articles
would just get forgotten and dropped into the abyss, I think" - not if
they had a category on them and we had a DPL.
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