[Mediawiki-l] Auto created redirects

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Thu Mar 29 15:13:49 UTC 2007


> 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).

You may be right... they aren't useful very often, and your point
about inexperienced admins is a good one...



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