[WikiEN-l] Re: I just blocked someone for 9999 hours

Tue May 11 13:40:35 UTC 2004

That's a sensible idea IMO. 

Theresa

-----Original Message-----
From: Timwi [mailto:timwi at gmx.net] 
Sent: 11 May 2004 14:37
To: wikien-l at wikipedia.org
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Re: I just blocked someone for 9999 hours

daniwo59 at aol.com wrote:

> I am proposing the following radical solutions:
[...]

Most of what you suggest is to combat trolling or vadalism, but one 
thing you mention -- duplication of articles -- almost always happens by 
accident rather than malice.

To combat that, I think we really should make more redirects when pages 
are created. Just the other day, I was going to start an article on 
http://www.memory-alpha.org/ and called it [[MemoryAlpha]] without 
realising that there was already [[Memory Alpha]]. There should have 
been a redirect!

So, I was wondering if the New Pages Patrol (which I think is a good 
idea even though I don't have time to participate in it before my exams) 
should include the "duty" of creating redirects from alternative names, 
titles, spellings, etc.etc.etc.

Timwi

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