[Mediawiki-l] Auto created redirects

[Milan Tešović]

Redirect ARE easy to delete.
But allready with Wikipedias with under 50.000 articles
you have some/many unexperienced admistrators who leave these links behind.
Besides you said that leaving these redirects can be usefull.
Can it? Is it realy good that when you click a link you get an article that 
is deleted (moving to user space is not an alternative to deletion, it is 
being done only for article that admin wants to delete, or articles that 
were voted for deletion).


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Dalton" <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" 
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Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Auto created redirects


On 29/03/07, Milan Tešović <milant at cg.yu> wrote:
> When an article is moved a Redirect is made at the original location.
>
> Wouldn't it be good if there would be an exception when article is moved 
> to User page space or Wikipedia: space (or Wikinews, Wikiquote...)
>
> Some articles proposed for deletetion don't get deleted, but are moved to 
> the User:MyName/TheUndeletedArticle
> This leaves the redirect page at TheUndeletedArticle, which should be 
> deleted, but it sometimes isn't.
> Samesituation when SomeWikipediaPolicy is moved to 
> Wikipedia:SomeWikipediaPolicy
>
> This is bigger problem on smaller Wikipedias and smaller projects, then on 
> major Wikipedias.
>
> Many articles that should be deleted are still there throug the redirects 
> Page => User:Me/Page, instead of being red links.

It isn't difficult to delete the redirect. I think it's better to keep
it as it is - for example, it allows the admin to leave the redirect
there for a couple of days so as not to have redlinks in the deletion
debate while people may still be interested in it.
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