[WikiEN-l] VfD against every article in Category.Outlines that is also in namespace 0? (aka: please stop writing another perverted encyclopedia inside wikipedia)

[Matthew Brown]

This apparently was originally [[List of basic topics]] and its
children, and the rename to Outlines was done by [[User:The
Transhumanist]].  [[List of basic topics]] dates to 2001 and was
started by Larry Sanger, so this is not a new thing.

-Matt


On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Mathias Schindler
<mathias.schindler at gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently came across http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Outlines
> and it took me a while to realize the full extend of this desaster.
> Some part of en.wp's authors is duplicating Wikipedia, this time
> without text.
>
> For example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_outline_of_Algeria is
> a list of articles somehow related to Algeria. This purpose is better
> served by either [[:en:Algeria]] (with full sentences) or by
> [[:en:Category:Algeria]] (with proper software, without full
> sentences).
>
> My recommendation would be to delete them on sight. Given the
> situation at en.wp, this is better done with a formal VfD,
> triple-signed by someone else and already attached objections and
> specialized templates for revision and arbitration, right?
>
> Mathias
>
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