On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Charlotte Webb wrote:
That's it. When deletion comes knocking it's hard to defend individual articles but somewhat easier to defend these omnibus ones, so they get rolled together even though there's not one whit of difference as far as the actual _content_ is concerned.
Cases like these lend themselves to a sort of tag-team deletionism (which may be conspiracy or coincidence -- neither would surprise me):
- Those opposed to individual stubs are pacified by merging
everything to a list article 2. Then, those opposed to "list-cruft" are pacified by deletion of the list article. 3. Then, those who would rather delete a "broken redirect" on sight rather than checking for previous revisions containing a proper article, well... nevermind.
Perfect crime if you think about it.
Umm, this has been *happening*. See the episode and characters arbcom case.