[WikiEN-l] Speedy deletion criterion G5

[Kusma]

On 3/14/07, Oldak Quill <oldakquill at gmail.com> wrote:
> Redirect was deleted by User:Kusma from [[Schachter]] to
> [[Schechter]]. A valid redirect: the latter article is about a German
> surname which may be spelt Schachter (the in-text title of the article
> is, in fact, Schachter).
>
This may be currently a valid redirect. However, creation of useless
redirects and concatenation of various dsambiguation pages that are
only mildly related is a major part of the problem with this
particular user. See [[Wikipedia:SU]] for some context (cleaning up
those pages and making sure they conform to the [[MoS:DP]] is a major
headache). After a couple dozen sockpuppets of this particular user, I
no longer care that he sometimes does make useful or marginally useful
edits, I just revert / delete all of them when I come across them. In
this particular case, I think anything else is a major waste of time
(or will do nothing but contribute to the cleanup backlog).

Instead of talking about whether deleting this redirect (whose
existence or nonexistence doesn't really matter all that much) was a
good idea, I invite everybody to help fix the pages listed at
[[Wikipedia:SU]].

Kusma

> After a little digging I found out the only reason he had deleted this
> important redirect is because "[p]ages created by banned users while
> they were banned" is a reason to speedily delete.
>
> Am I wrong to think that deleting valid articles and redirects based
> on who the creator was is nonsensical and against what we're trying to
> achieve?
>
> --
> Oldak Quill (oldakquill at gmail.com)
>
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