Good luck pushing this through on-wiki. Awhile back,
I saw a bunch of
soft redirects up for deletion -- the articles had already been
deleted, and someone had gone through and made soft redirects to the
Wikia versions of the same content (fan material). As far as I know,
the redirects were all deleted.
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Philip Sandifer <snowspinner(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Aug 29, 2008, at 7:47 AM, Wily D wrote:
Wikiquote, Wikisource, et al. are all, at least nominally, part of the
same project.
Are they? I mean, is that true from a community perspective, or a WMF
perspective?
Freeness is a wonderful attribute, but the honest
truth is that it's
of virtually zero value to our readers. By and large, they care about
gratis, but not libre. Do we try to impose our ideology that way?
Are external links for editors, rather than readers, who necessarily
care more about freeness?
If we're going for a readerly argument, fine - do away with our cruft
and notability guidelines. As it's also clear that we have readers who
want coverage of things we're hesitant to provide.
If it's just internal navigation/external
navigation, then it's just
internal projects and external projects. If there's a different
scheme, there should be a clear reason why a reader cares about free
vs. unfree.
Again, though, internal to what? I would suggest that on [[Han Solo]]
there is more overlap between the editors and readers of it and the
Wookiepedia page on Han Solo than there is between the editors and
readers of it and the Wikiquote page.
And yet one gets a colored box, and the other doesn't.
-Phil
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