[WikiEN-l] When did RfD Become Toxic?

[Phil Sandifer]

Can anyone quickly get me up to speed on when Redirects for  
Deletion... sorry. Redirects for "discussion" became a toxic hellhole  
of idiocy that makes the rest of our deletion procedures look sane?

Seriously. People are nominating perfectly sane if misguided  
redirects for deletion because no articles use them. Things like  
[[Cammy (Street Fighter)]] are up because there's no other Cammy  
articles. Which is fine, but someone who doesn't know that and is  
trying to guess our naming conventions could type in. Similarly, we  
have people seriously suggesting that [[The Twilight Zone (pinball)]]  
is not a reasonable redirect for [[Twilight Zone (pinball)]].

Seriously. When did we begin purging redirects, which are possibly  
the most harmless thing imaginable on Wikipedia. These are not  
offensive or POV redirects. They're sensible things that people might  
well guess when trying to type in an article name.

-Phil