[WikiEN-l] Where to turn for a trivial page deletion?

Tue Apr 1 14:27:47 UTC 2003

Well why not ask to be a sysop?

Fred

> From: "Stephen C. Carlson" <scarlson at mindspring.com>
> Reply-To: wikien-l at wikipedia.org
> Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 08:57:40 -0500
> To: wikien-l at wikipedia.org
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] Where to turn for a trivial page deletion?
> 
> 
> I'd like to delete [[Epistle to the Hebrews]] because the
> move command won't let me move the ungrammatically named
> [[Epistle to Hebrews]] to [[Epistle to the Hebrews]], due
> to a non-empty page history that has a bunch of automatic
> script conversions.
> 
> In the past, I simply copied the text from one page to the
> other and set up the appropriate redirect, but a sysop got
> on my case for it as a non-optimal operation.  So now, I
> put a request on Votes for Deletion, but no sysop has acted
> on the request yet.
> 
> So, am I asking for the trivial page deletion in the right
> place?  Or, should I just ignore a sysop jumping on my case,
> because waiting days for an edit to happen is counter to the
> wiki editing philosophy?
> 
> Stephen Carlson
> 
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