Re: [WikiEN-l] Outline articles

2011-09-09 Thread Carcharoth
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 Grayandrew.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



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Re: [WikiEN-l] Outline articles

2011-09-08 Thread Charles Matthews
On 07/09/2011 21:45, Andrew Gray 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.

 (Presented without comment; I'm not quite sure what I myself think of them!)

NB that there is a proponent of outlines, who is meeting resistance in 
the case of the numerous mathematical lists. I suppose an outline is 
properly a pedagogical summary, rather than just a topical listing. 
Therefore outlines are more likely tied to particular parts of 
educational systems, while a list is supposedly more neutral.

Charles



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Re: [WikiEN-l] Outline articles

2011-09-08 Thread Fred Bauder
 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



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Re: [WikiEN-l] Outline articles

2011-09-08 Thread MuZemike
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 Grayandrew.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



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[WikiEN-l] Outline articles

2011-09-07 Thread Andrew Gray
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.

(Presented without comment; I'm not quite sure what I myself think of them!)

-- 
- Andrew Gray
  andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk

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