Lee Pilich wrote:
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.
Well, possibly 'absurd' is not the right word. :-) But really, the article was a stub on a legitimate topic, and I see no *advantage* to the redirect. What was wrong with including the content into the UCB page (if it belongs there too) *and* leaving the page as it was?
Search on 'Cory Hall wikipedia' at google, and the #1 link is to our Cory Hall page. Search on just "Cory Hall" and the page is #10. But if you click on the page, you just get something you didn't want -- a general page on UCB.
But both seem reasonable positions, neither is absurd.
Maybe. :-) Absurd was a harsh word, and I regret using it.
Anyway, how we handle stub articles like these is a separate issue to deletions. Nobody's suggesting that we delete this sort of info.
Well, it's intimately related because I got this example off of the VfD page. The VfD page is too large in part because people are listing things for deletion that pretty obviously aren't candidates for deletion.
--Jimbo