User:Geo Swan/Redirecting Guantanamo captives articles to the list articles on their nationalities

In the last couple of weeks a very persistent contributor has been nominating Guantanamo articles I started for deletion, at a pace of about half a dozen per day. They have suggested all these articles should be deleted and made redirections to articles that list all the captives from a single nation.

These articles had all been stripped down to stub status by another very persistent challenger. That challenger stripped out almost all the contents of 100 articles in the three days before their final indefinite block for edit warring.

Bringing (some) of these articles up to the wikipedia`s current standards takes about six hours each. Consequently I was able to bring only half a dozen of these articles up to snuff.

Whether these articles were kept, or deleted, at Afd, ebbs and flows depending on the state of US politics. Right now there is heavy support for deletion -- or redirection to the list articles.

I decided that rather than go through the drama of several hundred more Afd, I am going to redirect them myself. It is what the Afd supports.

If it takes 6 hours to bring the articles that can be brought up to current standards up to snuff, the revision history is still there. I can look at them, one at a time, as time permits.

I do not plan to turn any of these redirections back into articles without calling for the opinions of some senior contributors I trust. Geo Swan (talk) 13:52, 9 July 2012 (UTC)