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From: Phroziac <phroziac(a)gmail.com>
Date: Aug 5, 2005 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] I better shut up (was vfd RFC)
To: "Ben E." <bratsche1(a)gmail.com>
We could use what links here to see what links to it and remove them. :)
On 8/5/05, Ben E. <bratsche1(a)gmail.com> wrote:
That would make sense, I think. But we'd have to
keep those articles out of
disambig pages. Think of the confusion someone would have if they clicked on
a person's name, and ended up on [[WP:VAIN]]? A category for these pages
would help, too, in case someone wanted to improve some to a point past a
pure vanity article.
Ben/Bratsche
On 8/5/05, Phroziac <phroziac(a)gmail.com> wrote:
With the PWDS, they wouldn't show up as existing.
Why can't we just redirect ones that aren't encyclopedic to something
live WP:VAIN for vanity pages?
On 8/5/05, Ben E. <bratsche1(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know if this is a totally acceptable choice. Some articles are
> simply not appropriate for the encyclopedia (borderline spam comes to
mind,
> and articles with an inherent POV also could
be used as an example).
Keeping
inappropriate blank articles would seem almost as an endorsement that we
want the subject material in Wikipedia. Also, wouldn't these articles
artificially inflate the total article count?
Ben/Bratsche
On 8/5/05, Dan Grey <dangrey(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Heh, y'know we could do the pure wiki deletion thing right now,
without the links-going-red thing. I've not checked but I bet a lot of
VfD candidates don't have many incoming links.
The only problem with articles that could need deletion, I believe, is
the chance of them showing up in searches. Diskspace etc doesn't
matter. To stop stuff getting searched whenever the index is updated,
is just to blank the article.
We could delete VfD again and do this right now. Debates about
blanking held on talk pages. We could put a blank articles make links
red thing in later.
Dan
PS: "More likely, the tagged articles
would just get forgotten and dropped into the abyss, I think" - not if
they had a category on them and we had a DPL.
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