[WikiEN-l] Forest fire week

[Charlotte Webb]

On 10/15/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 15/10/2007, Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/15/07, Todd Allen <toddmallen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Well, I, for one, will in that case find -very- inventive ways to
> > > determine that things fit a speedy criterion. :) Realistically, though,
> > > we need -more- cutting, not less. We've got plenty of writing done
> > > already, but far too much resistance to cutting, a normal and healthy
> > > part of any editing process.
> >
> > If that's the way you feel, you could probably delete everything I've
> > created, FedEx me a box of razor blades, and come out ahead.
> >
> > Less whimsically, I think too many of us carry that immediatist,
> > "db-notreadyforprimetime" attitude.
>
> I spent an hour today clearing up after someone who'd deleted a swathe
> of disambiguation pages with four or five article-worthy redlinks and
> one link, then redirected them to that page. And then gone through
> more disambiguation pages *removing* redlinks from them - again,
> things which obviously were going to be articles.
>
> I really do despair, sometimes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:JHunterJ#Disambiguation_pages
Ugh...

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—C.W.