[WikiEN-l] Rampant Deletionism

[The Cunctator]

On 11/6/03 9:26 AM, "Lee Pilich" <lee at audiblerecords.com> wrote:

> At 05:07 06/11/2003 -0800, Jimbo wrote:
>> "Cory Hall" -- this one did get redirected to U. Cal Berkeley, which
>> is absurd in my opinion.  This is a well-known building, it may
>> certainly have an article, even if the topic would not make it into
>> 1.0.  When was it built?  What function does it serve?  Who was the
>> architect?  What famous things happened there?  All legitimate stuff.
> 
> Absolutely. But perhaps when you consider that the content of that page was
> nothing more than "Cory Hall is the Electrical Engineering building at the
> University of California, Berkeley. It is across the street from Soda
> Hall", and that the same content has been merged into the U Cal, Berk page,
> the redirect doesn't seem so "absurd" any more.
> 
Actually, it does. The Cory Hall page was a legitimate stub. Again, one
should hesitate to generate such stubs, but it's bad form to delete them.