[WikiEN-l] Rampant Deletionism

Thu Nov 6 15:54:21 UTC 2003

Lee Pilich wrote:
> Absolutely. But perhaps when you consider that the content of that page 
> was nothing more than "Cory Hall is the Electrical Engineering building 
> at the University of California, Berkeley. It is across the street from 
> Soda Hall", and that the same content has been merged into the U Cal, 
> Berk page, the redirect doesn't seem so "absurd" any more.

Well, possibly 'absurd' is not the right word.  :-) But really, the
article was a stub on a legitimate topic, and I see no *advantage* to
the redirect.  What was wrong with including the content into the UCB
page (if it belongs there too) *and* leaving the page as it was?

Search on 'Cory Hall wikipedia' at google, and the #1 link is to our
Cory Hall page.  Search on just "Cory Hall" and the page is #10.  But
if you click on the page, you just get something you didn't want -- a
general page on UCB.

> But both seem reasonable positions, neither is absurd.

Maybe.  :-) Absurd was a harsh word, and I regret using it.

> Anyway, how we handle stub articles like these is a separate issue to 
> deletions. Nobody's suggesting that we delete this sort of info.

Well, it's intimately related because I got this example off of the
VfD page.  The VfD page is too large in part because people are
listing things for deletion that pretty obviously aren't candidates
for deletion.

--Jimbo