On ven, 2002-04-12 at 03:36, Karen AKA Kajikit wrote:
I'm not sure where to put suggestions for pages to delete - I've been moving info around all day and I'm leaving a trail of outdated empty entries behind me.
[[Wikipedia utilities/Page titles to be deleted]] is the usual place, though it's cleverly hidden.
- Bipolar disorder/An older, deprecated, version of this page [now a
redirect, but nobody's going to want to type all that into their browser!]
- Harry Potter/Quidditch [moved to Quidditch (Harry Potter)]
- Harry Potter/broom [still has info but totally irrelevant and
duplicated in the Quidditch entry]
Personally, I would really, REALLY, prefer that these kinds of pages be made redirects, *not* deleted outright.
Even if you fix all the links *within* Wikipedia, what about search engines that haven't re-indexed the site yet? What about people who bookmarked the old page and want to come back to it? What if somebody linked to an article from another site?
I think they'd be much happier being redirected to the new article than seeing "Describe the new page here."
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)