From: "Charlotte Webb" <charlottethewebb(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Redirects, was Re: Re: Writing for the Pedia Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 13:33:11 -0500 On 8/29/07, charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: bytes to justify deleting a couple of dozen seems to make little sense. RFD is the [[$100 Hamburger]] of Wiki-process junkies, especially those ones who fail the learning curve of AFD and CFD (or have been banned from their local bingo hall). Except for dignity in isolated cases (where a redirect is implausible, misleading, offensive, or whatever), nothing is gained from "deleting" it (not even the bytes of disk space it still occupies, whether it's deleted or not). In the real world, talk is cheaper than action. Wikipedia is different. Git-R-Done. —C.W.

From: "David Gerard" <dgerard(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)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(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote: RFD 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?

On 9/1/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote: Wow, I had not thought of that. All of a sudden I like AfD. KP _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

On 9/2/07, David Goodman <dgoodmanny(a)gmail.com> wrote: What about MfD? Johnleemk _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

On 9/3/07, David Goodman <dgoodmanny(a)gmail.com> wrote: Yeah, merging them makes the most sense to me. I've never looked much at the xfDs since they were split off, to be honest, so I can't compare them much. I did close RfDs for a while, though, and it was as bad then as it is now. Johnleemk _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l