[WikiEN-l] Outline articles

[Carcharoth]

Yeah, but what does it have to do with this thread?

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:31 PM, MuZemike <muzemike at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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