On 5/25/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 24/05/07, Mathias Schindler mathias.schindler@gmail.com wrote:
Why on earth should we keep a page [[Jimmy wales]] that was never a legitimate redirect (opposite to [[Jimmy Donal Wales]])? Just because a blogger was unable to set the proper (and still-working) link, a bunch of redirects with no value and sense should clutter the article lists?
Why on earth shouldn't we? Are the disks going to fill?
Even a redirect usually carries a meaning. There are proper uses for redirects, the same way there are proper non-encyclopedic uses of disambiguation pages, for example when dealing with computerlinguistic problems.
Heaven will not fall down, and god will not kill a kitten or a sysadmin every time there is an inproper redirect. Nor will it fill our disks more than images do.
Mathias