[WikiEN-l] Outline articles

[Fred Bauder]

> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk>
> wrote:
>> I don't think we've discussed the "outline of X" articles much on this
>> list, which surprises me, but people might nonetheless be interested
>> in:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29#RfC:_Elimination_of_outline_articles
>>
>> "I would like to propose the removal of all outline articles. All
>> articles currently named "Outline of ..." would be renamed "List of
>> ... topics". If there is already a list of that name, the two would be
>> merged."
>
> Not commenting on the main proposal, but the following surprises me:
>
> "No redirects would be left behind. In addition, any currently
> existing "Outline of ..." redirects would be eliminated."
>
> That seems to me to misunderstand what redirects are for and how
> merging operates. Possibly that option was thrown in to ensure that
> the content would be deleted and not retrievable from the page
> history. Without that bit, it is merely a merge and/or renaming
> proposal. With the elimination of redirects, it becomes a deletion
> proposal.
>
> Carcharoth

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Fred