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

[Christiano Moreschi]

>From: "Charlotte Webb" <charlottethewebb at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Redirects, was Re: Re: Writing for the Pedia
>Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 13:33:11 -0500
>
>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.

RFD? Sounds to me like a convention of UFO fanboys. Terrifying!

Redirects are useful. If you see a really silly one, nuke it. Why should RFD 
even exist?

C More schi

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