On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On 16 November 2013 19:55, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stie...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Stumbled across this tonight. >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:HOTTIE >> >> I have never seen that before! >> >> "For example, as a general rule, girls named Tiffany and Alicia are almost >> always hot. Girls named Bertha and Bessie... not so much." >> >> > > > Just for the record: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GlassCobra/Essays/Hotties_are_always_notable > is now the link. I've removed the shortcut because shortcuts are only > supposed to be used in Wikipedia space, and this sure as heck doesn't belong > in Wikipedia space!
Is there a policy/guideline against 'WP:' shortcuts that go to userspace? We have a few categorised here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Redirects_to_user_namespace ... and obviously there are some which are not categorised like HOTTIE and FUGLY (see below). Ryan Kaldari tried to delete WP:HOTTIE via process in 2010 and was rejected. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2010_August_5#WP:HOTTIE It was also attempted in 2007: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2007_November_14#WP:HOTTIE_.E2.86.92_User:GlassCobra.2FHotties_are_always_notable And in 2009 the redirect which was about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FUGLY was also not deleted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2009_June_29#Wikipedia:Notability_.28uglyness.29 WP:HOTTIE at least is an attempt to be a sarcastic critic of notability and WP:AFD which is IMO pretty accurate ( or was when I hung out in those parts ), and WP:FUGLY probably tries to do the same, but doesnt have nearly the same value. If the reader doesnt see a lot of AFDs, WP:HOTTIE doesnt give enough context to be meaningful. I think we should have a policy that WP:[anything] shortcuts lead the reader to something in Wikipedia: space, but it may be hard to convince the community that userspace pages cant have a shortcut, especially when they have 250 incoming links. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Wikipedia:HOTTIE&limit=250 We don''t have a shortcut prefix for userspace essays listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut#List_of_prefixes On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Nathan <nawr...@gmail.com> wrote: > What about that concerns you? Incidentally I've nom'd the redirect for > deletion. which is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2013_November_17#Wikipedia:Hotties_are_always_notable -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
