On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 2:23 AM, Todd Allen <toddmallen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I would see nothing wrong, in that instance, with a
soft-redirect page
saying something to the effect of "Please see the news article for
this event on Wikinews (insert link here)", if that really is the
appropriate thing to redirect to. Other times, it may have to be
mentioned on a disambiguation page or the like. And if we do wind up
with an article on a "flash in the pan" event that turns out not to be
appropriate for an encyclopedia article, we could always redirect it
to the Wikinews archive in the same way. Benefits Wikinews (by making
sure it gets eyeballs), benefits us (by making sure we -don't- get
those types of articles and that news stays on the project designed to
work with it).
A redirect to wikinews was in place for a while when this was a current story:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Former_Chief_Operating_Officer_of_Wikimedia_Fou…
Penwhale replaced a biog with with a soft-redirect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=177836977
I have just now restored a little of this article deleted history,
from Penwhale's edit on-wards, as that doesn't include any of the
biographics edits. I hope others will agree that these undeleted
edits are _interesting_ from a collaborative management angle and that
there is little need to keep those edits hidden.
(I have specifically chosen to avoid mentioning the name of the
subject as it isnt the interesting part; I hope others will do the
same.)
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John Mark Vandenberg