[Wikipedia-l] Autofellatio

[Alfio Puglisi]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Tony Sidaway wrote:

>Well most people decided it shouldn't be on Wikipedia, whether because
>they suspected it was a copyright violation, they thought it was too open
>to abuse, or they didn't think it was suitable for Wikipedia.  Quadell has
>closed the discussion, deleted the image, and removed the link from the
>article.
>I'm happy with this outcome.  The image was deleted by consensus.

This is not an "outcome", in the sense that it will not stop here. Other
images will appear, and one can easily find images that are fine for
articles but will upset a lot of people if they are put in place of their
user page.

The problem is using invisible redirects that are difficult to remove for
90% of wikipedia users, so that cleanup is substantially delayed.

Since the interwiki redirect has been so seldomly used, I propose to
remove the functionality altogether. One will still be able to vandalize
an user's page with an ordinary redirect, but it will be one to the same
wikipedia and much more manageable.

Alfio