Exactly. This is what should be done. What I am
worried about is that deletion has become the first
and only resort in dealing with these kinds of issues.
Mark
--- "Poor, Edmund W" <Edmund.W.Poor(a)abc.com> 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...
Ed Poor
"very good, always helps" <--- 40 WikiBonus
points if u can ID this
quote
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Lih [mailto:andrew.lih@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 8:42 PM
To: English Wikipedia
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] A plea - live and let live
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 07:31:33 +1000, David Carson
<david(a)hemiware.com> wrote:
> Mark Richards wrote:
>
> That's a fairly large misstatement of the actual
situation, seeing
> that virtually all of the "over 70 new
listings"
are a list
of over 70
> esoteric programming languages listed for VFD by
one person.
Note that over a dozen entries on VfD were "The
Apprentice"
contestants, added in one big shot. As
Wikipedia's
popularity
grows, the listing on VfD will too.
-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)
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