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