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JamieTheFoool - a user page in Wikipedia namespace. I have asked the user to move the content to user:JamieTheFoool. If they don't within a few days I'll do it for them. This page shouldn't be deleted just because the person won't redirect it. I just redirected it anyway. Dreamyshade
[[Little guru]] - another user page in Wikipedia namespace. This one also copied AxelBoltd's list of contributions and made it his own, which is pretty darn insulting considering the enormous contributions Axel has made. I think this page should be deleted immediately, and probably his IP address should be banned. This page shouldn't be deleted simply because its owner isn't well-liked by certain individuals. It is easily redirected to the User namespace. Dreamyshade
Tantrayana - removed from list because it can become an article someday
Alt.pasta - redirected to
user:Alt.pasta, deletion unnecessary
Ummmm... I thought the whole point of having a separate user namespace was so that user names could be easily differentiated from wikipedia articles?? The cases mentioned above might not be ambiguous, but that doesn't mean that the natural solution is a redirect. In fact, redirects might only confuse. What if we have wikipedia:john Brown (created as a user page accidentally). It gets redirected to user:john Brown. What happens when someone wants to write about the abolitionist? I say: delete page where there is no ambiguity (after moving all content to a user: page); delete all content when the name should be used for a real article, and don't redirect!! HK, Monday, April 8, 2002
At the risk of seeming to defend 24, which I'm not, I will defend the word "terrist" as a perfectly good word in the English language. I haven't read 24's offering on the subject, so I do not know how he used the word.
(There is a very short limit on how much of 24's writings one's mind can absorb.) Be that as it may, if "terrism" is used synonymously with "terrorism" it is being misused.
Properly used, (and without venturing into the soundness of the concepts) it refers to a belief in earth wisdom and the Gaia concept. Amidst all the misuses, I did find one citation in the table of contents of a magazine which does use it correctly at http://www.dialogue.uw.edu.pl/99-1-2.htm. In their respective latin origins "terrism" is from terra meaning earth, "terrorism" is from terrere meaning to tremble. Eclecticology
NOTE on including older pages on "Page titles to be deleted" and the use of REDIRECTS
I disagree about the addition of the Chess subpages on the deletion queue -- most of these have been around for awhile now and are currently indexed by Google and other search engines. In addition, some of them may very well be bookmarked by various chess enthusiasts that have visited the site before. If these pages are deleted, then we have broken links from various search engines and previous visitors. Redirects are harmless, don't take up much hard drive space at all, keep links alive, don't mess up our "number of articles" stats, and are fully supported by Jimbo (i.e. the guy that pays the bills) for these reasons. Yes, they currently do make searches a bit ugly and are annoying when poking around a complete list of articles --- but these issues are being worked on and should be easy to hide from searches and complete listings. -- maveric149, Sunday, April 14, 2002
Hi,
There is already a Wikipedia article with the Title Travel Triangle, but there is an empty title too with the same name without spacing which also occurs in google result. It is TravelTriangle.
Could you please delete the empty title TravelTriangle ?
Thanks. TravelTriangle 21:02, 21 November 2015 (UTC)