At 11:52 PM 6/20/02 +0100, tarquin wrote:
As I said on Talk:WikiProject, it seems to me that we currently have 4 rough meta- areas which overlap somewhat:
- naming conventions
- WikiProjects: presentation guidelines for types
- basic topic pages, eg "[[Music basic topics]]"
I guess this is as good a conversational opening as any. :)
For the past little while, I've been working on the http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Complete_list_of_encyclopedia_topics pages. I laboriously removed all of the links to existing articles, and uncovered about 400 pages that had been orphaned except for the link from here. Since then, though, the common opinion seems to be that even after all that these pages are still more trouble than they're worth, filled with bad article titles and such.
So now I'd like to delete them, and I've been broaching the subject all over the place in order to make sure nobody's got a problem with that. These pages probably took a lot of work to make, so I don't want to dispose of them if anyone can think of anything remotely useful to use them for.
The mailing list is probably the last place I'll mention it, though. If nobody wants to do anything with these pages after this I'll finally get around to deleting them.
-- "Let there be light." - Last words of Bomb #20, "Dark Star"