[WikiEN-l] Outline articles

[MuZemike]

More powerful than Oversight, as well.

-MuZemike

On 9/8/2011 12:07 PM, Fred Bauder wrote:
>> 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
>
> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Extension:DeletePagePermanently
>
> The ultimate deletionist's tool.
>
> Fred
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