On 3/14/07, Oldak Quill oldakquill@gmail.com wrote:
Redirect was deleted by User:Kusma from [[Schachter]] to [[Schechter]]. A valid redirect: the latter article is about a German surname which may be spelt Schachter (the in-text title of the article is, in fact, Schachter).
This may be currently a valid redirect. However, creation of useless redirects and concatenation of various dsambiguation pages that are only mildly related is a major part of the problem with this particular user. See [[Wikipedia:SU]] for some context (cleaning up those pages and making sure they conform to the [[MoS:DP]] is a major headache). After a couple dozen sockpuppets of this particular user, I no longer care that he sometimes does make useful or marginally useful edits, I just revert / delete all of them when I come across them. In this particular case, I think anything else is a major waste of time (or will do nothing but contribute to the cleanup backlog).
Instead of talking about whether deleting this redirect (whose existence or nonexistence doesn't really matter all that much) was a good idea, I invite everybody to help fix the pages listed at [[Wikipedia:SU]].
Kusma
After a little digging I found out the only reason he had deleted this important redirect is because "[p]ages created by banned users while they were banned" is a reason to speedily delete.
Am I wrong to think that deleting valid articles and redirects based on who the creator was is nonsensical and against what we're trying to achieve?
-- Oldak Quill (oldakquill@gmail.com)
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