[Wikipedia-l] Page deletion (was: Re: Sysop status)

[tarquin]

lcrocker at nupedia.com wrote:

>>Yes.  I'm assuming that is the rule about making things redirects 
>>instead, and keeping old pages in the database to avoid 404 errors 
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>>from search engine results.  (new junk pages with no useful content 
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>>can be deleted safely).  MANY deletions violate this rule.
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>I'm probably a major offender here, so I'd like to argue that perhaps 
>the policy needs to be changed or clarified.  First, articles that 
>have no content or history should be deletable with less formality.  
>What we want to prevent is the loss of content.
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>Secondly, Wikipedia is dynamic in nature, and I don't think we should 
>play by the same rules as static websites in terms of keeping old 
>links alive. 
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I've posted a suggestion that would help this.
It's also at the foot of this page: 
http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Wikipedia_talk%3AWikipedia_policy_on_permanent_deletion_of_pages

see the "Suggestion for non-existing pages" section. It's already posted 
to SourceForge