[WikiEN-l] Human dignity

[ScottL]

Steve Bennett wrote:
> OT: I was irked today when I went to look up OMFGWTFBBQ in Wikipedia,
> only to find a redirect to [[Internet slang]], which didn't actually
> mention it. Nor did [[List of internet slang]]. In fact there *was* a
> useful definition once upon a time, but it got deleted by someone
> zealously enforcing WP:NOT. What can I say - the encyclopaedia let me
> down on this one.
> 
> Steve

WARNING: topic drift

   Without claiming that we should or should not have such a entry in 
those articles, I have for a long time been interested in looking 
through the DB dump for redirects to pages that do not contain the term 
being redirected to them, or something close.  Its the "or something 
close" and the fact that some times this is probably "ok" that makes it 
hard to just do this.  In any event I have frequently come across very 
bad redirects, some of them POV some of them I think people did just to 
avoid having a red link. Is there any sort of redirect auditing being 
done?  I can't say I know of a good way to go about it efficiently but 
its is worth thinking about.

Dalf