Fwd: [WikiEN-l] I better shut up (was vfd RFC)

[Phroziac]

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From: Phroziac <phroziac at gmail.com>
Date: Aug 5, 2005 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] I better shut up (was vfd RFC)
To: "Ben E." <bratsche1 at gmail.com>


We could use what links here to see what links to it and remove them. :)

On 8/5/05, Ben E. <bratsche1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> That would make sense, I think. But we'd have to keep those articles out of
> disambig pages. Think of the confusion someone would have if they clicked on
> a person's name, and ended up on [[WP:VAIN]]? A category for these pages
> would help, too, in case someone wanted to improve some to a point past a
> pure vanity article.
>
> Ben/Bratsche
>
>
>
> On 8/5/05, Phroziac <phroziac at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > With the PWDS, they wouldn't show up as existing.
> > Why can't we just redirect ones that aren't encyclopedic to something
> > live WP:VAIN for vanity pages?
> >
> > On 8/5/05, Ben E. <bratsche1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I don't know if this is a totally acceptable choice. Some articles are
> > > simply not appropriate for the encyclopedia (borderline spam comes to
> mind,
> > > and articles with an inherent POV also could be used as an example).
> Keeping
> > > inappropriate blank articles would seem almost as an endorsement that we
> > > want the subject material in Wikipedia. Also, wouldn't these articles
> > > artificially inflate the total article count?
> > >  Ben/Bratsche
> > >
> > >  On 8/5/05, Dan Grey <dangrey at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Heh, y'know we could do the pure wiki deletion thing right now,
> > > > without the links-going-red thing. I've not checked but I bet a lot of
> > > > VfD candidates don't have many incoming links.
> > > >
> > > > The only problem with articles that could need deletion, I believe, is
> > > > the chance of them showing up in searches. Diskspace etc doesn't
> > > > matter. To stop stuff getting searched whenever the index is updated,
> > > > is just to blank the article.
> > > >
> > > > We could delete VfD again and do this right now. Debates about
> > > > blanking held on talk pages. We could put a blank articles make links
> > > > red thing in later.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Dan
> > > >
> > > > PS: "More likely, the tagged articles
> > > > would just get forgotten and dropped into the abyss, I think" - not if
> > > > they had a category on them and we had a DPL.
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