On 9/1/07, Christiano Moreschi moreschiwikiman@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
From: "David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Redirects, was Re: Re: Writing for the Pedia Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 21:21:49 +0100
On 01/09/07, Christiano Moreschi moreschiwikiman@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
RFD? Sounds to me like a convention of UFO fanboys. Terrifying! Redirects are useful. If you see a really silly one, nuke it. Why should
RFD
even exist?
To give people a page to feel powerful on?
Make it part of misc for deletion again?
- d.
Or just simply list it on MFD. I still don't get why we have this page for redirect discussion. Redirects are fundamentally useful, fairly unimportant things that should be included wherever possible. Redirects are the obvious exception to my usual deletionism. Delete offensive and silly stuff wherever found - why the need for RFD?
C More schi
Here's a redirect I nominated for deletion:
Raimondo Guarini 1765-1852 Italian Archaeologist,Epigrapher,Poet,College President,Teacher
AT:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raimondo_Guarini_1765-1852_Italian_Archaeologis...
There's a reason for redirects for deletion.
I also nominated DAVID CREWS as a redirect for deletion.
Both articles were crappy articles at AfD with the article titles as above. Most RfD that I have seen have been redirmisnomers. This can be handled in mis for deletion, though.
KP