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

Steve Bennett stevagewp at gmail.com
Wed Sep 5 04:52:01 UTC 2007


On 9/2/07, Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Some redirects should be deleted - such as offensive or ridiculous
ones. But they don't need to be discussed first.

Steve



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