On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Gregory Maxwell
<gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> or do you claim that we shouldn't
> delete sub-stubs duplicating pre-existing articles?
Carcharoth
<carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
If the title is valid, it is easier to turn it into a
redirect and
merge any content not already mentioned in the existing article (a
s-merge as it is sometimes called). The failure to consider moving
content elsewhere (and leaving a redirect to preserve the
contributions history) is a common misunderstanding made by those who
request deletion in such cases.
+!
Well, that's the point. If our sanitation engineers actually did what
real sanitation engineers do and actually salvaged things (nice coffee
table!), nobody would have a problem with deletion as a process.
And as for the philosophical aspects, we don't generally let nihilists
have too much control for the simple reason that they tend to turn
destruction into an -ism.
-Stevertigo
"Is that some sort of Eastern thing?