[WikiEN-l] Redirects, was Re: Re: Writing for the Pedia

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On 01/09/07, Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/29/07, charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
> <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > The resource implications of redirects are apparently small. Using many
> bytes to justify deleting a couple of dozen seems to make little sense.
>
> RFD is the [[$100 Hamburger]] of Wiki-process junkies, especially
> those ones who fail the learning curve of AFD and CFD (or have been
> banned from their local bingo hall).
>
> Except for dignity in isolated cases (where a redirect is implausible,
> misleading, offensive, or whatever), nothing is gained from "deleting"
> it (not even the bytes of disk space it still occupies, whether it's
> deleted or not).
>
> In the real world, talk is cheaper than action. Wikipedia is different.
>
> Git-R-Done.
>
> —C.W.
>
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Wow, I just checked out RFD and you're totally right. There are people
arguing to delete Svensk -> Swedish, and yet arguing to keep Assburger ->
Asperger's Syndrome!