[WikiEN-l] Tool announcement: Alternative names redirect

[Eugene van der Pijll]

Magnus Manske schreef:
> IMHO that should be a semi-automated process, not a fully automated
> one (creating redirects, that is). So, here's the tool:
> 
> http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/name_redirects.php
> 
> Category suggestion : "XXXX deaths" :-)

Thanks! I've started on 1991 deaths, and I've already racked up ~200
edits in barely an hour :-) And I'm only at the letter C...

But now I've come across a redirect [[Vance Colvig, Jr.]] =>
[[Vance Colvig]] which was created before, and deleted because
"unnecessary redirect, unlikely to be used". Predictably, this name is
in use now. And now I'm checking the deletion log of User:Tregoweth, and
I'm depressed: he has deleted hundreds of reasonable redirects...

What's the use of contributing to Wikipedia if your work can be deleted
by the first random idiot passing by?

Eugene