At 07:54 06/11/2003 -0800, Jimbo wrote:
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?
As I say, possible duplication of effort in expanding the info in the future. Person X comes along to the UCB page, thinks, "Oh, Cory Hall, I can write a bit more about that" and does so. Person Y comes along to [[Cory Hall]], and writes a bit more there. Repeat ten times. Maybe eventually we have two completely different paragraphs on exactly the same subject in different articles. Probably not ideal.
I mean, I'm not sure I'd agree with that reasoning in this particular case, but it's reasoning that quite a lot of people have used, and it does make a certain sense.
But both seem reasonable positions, neither is absurd.
Maybe. :-) Absurd was a harsh word, and I regret using it.
Well, I got a bit hung up about the word "absurd". I posted before coffee, and I regret that :)
The Cunctator wrote:
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.
Just to be clear - the page wasn't deleted. It was redirected to UCB and the info added there. I think in some cases this is the right thing to do with stubs (if they're never going to be more than stubs, for example, or maybe if they demand context to make any sense), though whether it was here is obviously arguable.
Right, back to this encyclopaedia thing...
Lee (Camembert)