Yeah, but what does it have to do with this thread? On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:31 PM, MuZemike <muzem...@gmail.com> wrote: > More powerful than Oversight, as well. > > -MuZemike > > On 9/8/2011 12:07 PM, Fred Bauder wrote: >>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Andrew Gray<andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk> >>> wrote: >>>> I don't think we've discussed the "outline of X" articles much on this >>>> list, which surprises me, but people might nonetheless be interested >>>> in: >>>> >>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29#RfC:_Elimination_of_outline_articles >>>> >>>> "I would like to propose the removal of all outline articles. All >>>> articles currently named "Outline of ..." would be renamed "List of >>>> ... topics". If there is already a list of that name, the two would be >>>> merged." >>> >>> Not commenting on the main proposal, but the following surprises me: >>> >>> "No redirects would be left behind. In addition, any currently >>> existing "Outline of ..." redirects would be eliminated." >>> >>> That seems to me to misunderstand what redirects are for and how >>> merging operates. Possibly that option was thrown in to ensure that >>> the content would be deleted and not retrievable from the page >>> history. Without that bit, it is merely a merge and/or renaming >>> proposal. With the elimination of redirects, it becomes a deletion >>> proposal. >>> >>> Carcharoth >> >> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Extension:DeletePagePermanently >> >> The ultimate deletionist's tool. >> >> Fred >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> WikiEN-l mailing list >> WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >
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