This highlights to problem of deletion. In the case
you are talking about, someone should very much have
boldly edited this as redirects. If this had happened
to be wrong, people would have seen it, and it could
have been put right through wiki process.
Deletion is a totally different beast, it removes the
information, and, for most users, even the evidence
that it was ever there, removing the possibility of
process to improve the information.
Mark
--- "Carson, David" <DCarson(a)nine.com.au> wrote:
Ed Poor wrote:
If there are a dozen or 6 dozen separate, tiny
articles with a common
theme, then why not:
* Copy the text of each article into one new
comprehensive article
(like
[[List of Apprentice contestants]]
* Turn the text of each old article into:
#REDIRECT [[List of
Apprentice contestants]]
This is how Maveric asked me to handle the
Simpsons, way back when...
That's what I voted for, and indeed, that was the
overwhelming consensus
of the VFD vote, and is what has been done.
And indeed, that could have been boldly done by
someone without needing
a VFD vote. But I would say that (a) there would
have been a guaranteed
edit war following it; and (b) there WAS a definite
minority opinion
that these people didn't deserve to be in the
Wikipedia AT ALL, being
merely "game show contestants".
Me, I see the whole affair as further proof that VFD
is not at all
broken, and continues to excellently serve the
community.
Cheers!
David...
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