On 15/06/07, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
While you bring up athletes... We currently have a -lot- of permastubs on athletes, especially those who played professionally but may not have ever started for anyone. As a rule, these articles tend to be very lightly watched (if at all), and I would imagine vandalism to one could stay for quite some time. What would anyone think of merging such things into, say, "List of players on the 1999 San Francisco 49ers"? Obviously, we would still have separate articles on Joe Montana and Jerry Rice, but we could then put the third-stringers and such into a place where it would be more watched, less prone to vandalism, and not presented as a full biography of the person. Thoughts?
What would be most useful to the reader looking up that person? It is useful to know they haven't done anything else notable.
I submit that it greatly reduces usefulness for a name to redirect to a 60kb list the reader then has to go searching through to find the same information.
- d.