Redirects for discussion (RfD) is the place where potentially problematic redirects are discussed. Items usually stay listed for a week or so, after which they are deleted, kept, or retargeted.
If you want to replace an unprotected redirect with an article, do not list it here. Turning redirects into articles is wholly encouraged. Be bold!
If you want to move a page but a redirect is in the way, do not list it here. For non-controversial cases, place a technical request; if a discussion is required, then start a requested move.
If you think a redirect points to the wrong target article, this is a good place to discuss the proper target.
Redirects should not be deleted just because they have no incoming links. Please do not use this as the only reason to delete a redirect. However, redirects that do have incoming links are sometimes deleted, so that is not a sufficient condition for keeping. (See § When to delete a redirect for more information.)
Please do not unilaterally rename or change the target of a redirect while it is under discussion. This adds unnecessary complication to the discussion for participants and closers.
The purpose of a good redirect is to eliminate the possibility that readers will find themselves staring blankly at "Search results 1–10 out of 378" instead of the article they were looking for. If someone could plausibly enter the redirect's name when searching for the target article, it's a good redirect.
Redirects are cheap. They take up little storage space and use very little bandwidth. It doesn't really hurt things if there are a few of them scattered around. On the flip side, deleting redirects is also cheap because recording the deletion takes up little storage space and uses very little bandwidth. There is no harm in deleting problematic redirects.
If a good-faith RfD nomination proposes to delete a redirect and has no discussion after at least 7 days, the default result is delete.
Redirects nominated in contravention of Wikipedia:Redirect will be speedily kept.
RfD can also serve as a central discussion forum for debates about which page a redirect should target. In cases where retargeting the redirect could be considered controversial, it is advisable to leave a notice on the talk page of the redirect's current target page or the proposed target page to refer readers to the redirect's nomination to allow input and help form consensus for the redirect's target.
Requests for deletion of redirects from one page's talk page to another's do not need to be listed here. Anyone can remove the redirect by blanking the page. The G6 criterion for speedy deletion may be appropriate.
In discussions, always ask yourself whether or not a redirect would be helpful to the reader.
The major reasons why deletion of redirects is harmful are:
a redirect may contain non-trivial edit history;
if a redirect is reasonably old (or is the result of moving a page that has been there for quite some time), then it is possible that its deletion will break incoming links (such links coming from older revisions of Wikipedia pages, from edit summaries, from other Wikimedia projects or from elsewhere on the internet, do not show up in "What links here").
Therefore consider the deletion only of either harmful redirects or of recent ones.
You might want to delete a redirect if one or more of the following conditions is met:
The redirect page makes it unreasonably difficult for users to locate similarly named articles via the search engine. For example, if the user searches for "New Articles", and is redirected to a disambiguation page for "Articles" (itself a redirect to "Article"), it would take much longer to get to the newly added articles on Wikipedia.
The redirect might cause confusion. For example, if "Adam B. Smith" was redirected to "Andrew B. Smith", because Andrew was accidentally called Adam in one source, this could cause confusion with the article on Adam Smith, so the redirect should be deleted.
The redirect is offensive or abusive, such as redirecting "Joe Bloggs is a Loser" to "Joe Bloggs" (unless "Joe Bloggs is a Loser" is legitimately discussed in the article), or "Joe Bloggs" to "Loser". (Speedy deletion criterion G10 and G3 may apply.) See also§ Neutrality of redirects.
It is a cross-namespace redirect out of article space, such as one pointing into the User or Wikipedia namespace. The major exception to this rule are the pseudo-namespace shortcut redirects, which technically are in the main article space. Some long-standing cross-namespace redirects are also kept because of their long-standing history and potential usefulness. "MOS:" redirects, for example, were an exception to this rule until they became their own namespace in 2024. (Note also the existence of namespace aliases such as WP:. Speedy deletion criterion R2 may apply if the target namespace is something other than Category:, Template:, Wikipedia:, Help:, or Portal:.)
If the redirect is broken, meaning it redirects to an article that does not exist, it can be immediately deleted under speedy deletion criterion G8. You should check that there is not an alternative place it could be appropriately redirected to first and that it has not become broken through vandalism.
If the redirect is a novel or very obscure synonym for an article name that is not mentioned in the target, it is unlikely to be useful. In particular, redirects in a language other than English to a page whose subject is unrelated to that language (or a culture that speaks that language) should generally not be created. (Implausible typos or misnomers are candidates for speedy deletion criterion R3, if recently created.)
If the target article needs to be moved to the redirect title, but the redirect has been edited before and has a history of its own, then the title needs to be freed up to make way for the move. If the move is uncontroversial, tag the redirect for G6 speedy deletion, or alternatively (with the suppressredirect user right; available to page movers and admins), perform a round-robin move. If not, take the article to Requested moves.
If the redirect could plausibly be expanded into an article, and the target article contains virtually no information on the subject.
If the redirect ends in "(disambiguation)" but does not target a disambiguation page or a page performing a disambiguation-like function (such as a set index of articles). Speedy deletion criterion G14 may apply.
They have a potentially useful page history, or an edit history that should be kept to comply with the licensing requirements for a merge (see Wikipedia:Merge and delete). On the other hand, if the redirect was created by renaming a page with that name, and the page history just mentions the renaming, and for one of the reasons above you want to delete the page, copy the page history to the Talk page of the article it redirects to. The act of renaming is useful page history, and even more so if there has been discussion on the page name.
They would aid accidental linking and make the creation of duplicate articles less likely, whether by redirecting a plural to a singular, by redirecting a frequent misspelling to a correct spelling, by redirecting a misnomer to a correct term, by redirecting to a synonym, etc. In other words, redirects with no incoming links are not candidates for deletion on those grounds because they are of benefit to the browsing user. Some extra vigilance by editors will be required to minimize the occurrence of those frequent misspellings in article text because the linkified misspellings will not appear as broken links; consider tagging the redirect with the {{R from misspelling}} template to assist editors in monitoring these misspellings.
They aid searches on certain terms. For example, users who might see the "Keystone State" mentioned somewhere but do not know what that refers to will be able to find out at the Pennsylvania (target) article.
Deleting redirects runs the risk of breaking incoming or internal links. For example, redirects resulting from page moves should not normally be deleted without good reason. Links that have existed for a significant length of time, including CamelCase links (e.g. WolVes) and old subpage links, should be retained in case there are any existing links on external pages pointing to them. Please tag these with {{R from old history}}. See alsoWikipedia:Link rot § Link rot on non-Wikimedia sites.
Someone finds them useful. Hint: If someone says they find a redirect useful, they probably do. You might not find it useful—this is not because the other person is being untruthful, but because you browse Wikipedia in different ways. Evidence of usage can be gauged by using the wikishark or pageviews tool on the redirect to see the number of views it gets.
Just as article titles using non-neutral language are permitted in some circumstances, so are such redirects. Because redirects are less visible to readers, more latitude is allowed in their names, therefore perceived lack of neutrality in redirect names is not a sufficient reason for their deletion. In most cases, non-neutral but verifiable redirects should point to neutrally titled articles about the subject of the term. Non-neutral redirects may be tagged with {{R from non-neutral name}}.
Non-neutral redirects are commonly created for three reasons:
The subject matter of articles may be represented by some sources outside Wikipedia in non-neutral terms. Such terms are generally avoided in Wikipedia article titles, per the words to avoid guidelines and the general neutral point of view policy. For instance the non-neutral expression "AttorneygateAttorneygate" is used to redirect to the neutrally titled 2006 dismissal of U.S. attorneys. The article in question has never used that title, but the redirect was created to provide an alternative means of reaching it because a number of press reports use the term.
The exceptions to this rule would be redirects that are not established terms and are unlikely to be useful, and therefore may be nominated for deletion, perhaps under deletion reason #3. However, if a redirect represents an established term that is used in multiple mainstream reliable sources, it should be kept even if non-neutral, as it will facilitate searches on such terms. Please keep in mind that RfD is not the place to resolve most editorial disputes.
Go back to the redirect page, and choose "XFD" from the new Twinkle menu.
Fill in the form and submit it.
Please do not mark the edit as minor (m).
Please include in the edit summary the phrase: Nominated for RfD: see [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion]].
Save the page ("Publish changes").
If you are unable to edit the redirect page because of protection, this step can be omitted, and after step 2 is completed, a request to add the RFD template can be put on the redirect's talk page.
If the redirect you are nominating is in template namespace, consider adding |showontransclusion=1 to the RfD tag so that people using the template redirect are aware of the nomination. If it is an inline template, use |showontransclusion=tiny instead.
If you are nominating multiple redirects as a group, repeat all the above steps for each redirect being nominated and specify on {{rfd}} the nomination's group heading from Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion
STEP II.
List the entry on RfD.
Click here to edit the section of RfD for today's entries.
Enter this text below the date heading:
{{subst:Rfd2|redirect=RedirectName|target=TargetArticle|text=The action you would like to occur (deletion, re-targeting, etc.) and the rationale for that action.}}~~~~
For this template:
Put the redirect's name in place of RedirectName, put the target article's name in place of TargetArticle, and include a reason after text=.
Note that, for this step, the "target article" is the current target of the redirect (if you have a suggestion for a better target, include this in the text that you insert after text=).
Please use an edit summary such as: Nominating [[RedirectName]] (replacing RedirectName with the name of the redirect you are nominating).
To list multiple related redirects for discussion, use the following syntax. Repeat line 2 for N number of redirects:
{{subst:Rfd2|multi=yes|redirect=RedirectNameN|target=TargetArticleN|text=The actions you would like to occur (deletion, re-targeting, etc.) and the rationale for those actions.}}~~~~
If the redirect has had previous RfDs, you can add {{Oldrfdlist|previous RfD without brackets|result of previous RfD}} directly after the rfd2 template.
If appropriate, inform members of the most relevant WikiProjects through one or more "deletion sorting lists". Then add a {{subst:delsort|<topic>|<signature>}} template to the nomination, to insert a note that this has been done.
STEP III.
Notify users.
It is generally considered good practice to notify the creator and main contributors of the redirect(s) that you nominate.
To find the main contributors, look in the page history of the respective redirect(s). For convenience, the template
may be placed on the creator/main contributors' user talk page to provide notice of the discussion. Please replace RedirectName with the name of the respective creator/main contributors' redirect and use an edit summary such as: Notice of redirect discussion at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion]].
Notices about the RfD discussion may also be left on relevant talk pages.
Please consider using What links here to locate other redirects that may be related to the one you are nominating. After going to the redirect target page and selecting "What links here" in the toolbox on the left side of your computer screen, select both "Hide transclusions" and "Hide links" filters to display the redirects to the redirect target page.
This version of the page may not reflect the most current changes. Please purge this page to view the most recent changes.
ignoring the fact that neither of those redirects predate the iphone, the term has become a little too widespread to be easily narrowed to just cameras that are smaller and simpler than professional cameras, or cameras that ask you to commit infanticide. ironically, it's been narrowed down to just "any small camera lol", regardless of whether or not it's meant to fit in someone's pocket. problem is, that doesn't really have a good target to my knowledge... consarn(grave)(obituary)20:12, 26 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Consarn: - "Pocket camera" generally used to refer to the 110 format (AKA "pocket Instamatic") and that's what my redirect originally pointed to until someone changed it.
In the case of the Game Boy Camera, it was actually marketed under the specific *name* of "Pocket Camera", so I'd be okay with that capitalised version redirecting there *if* there was a {{redirect}} header for other (non-capitalised) uses of pocket camera. Ubcule (talk) 20:25, 26 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
that much i know, but came across some problems
for the former, the meaning has been spread a little thinner than that proceeding the early 70's, the name is unmentioned in the target outside of a source's title, and results (all five i found) seem to use the more general meaning of "smol camera :3"
for the latter, it'd likely need to be the primary topic for the term as a proper noun to avoid a more general target, which it doesn't seem to be
@Consarn: - With respect, I do agree that this is a weak nomination, and I just can't see it as a problem worth worrying about to that extent.
IMHO, you might be technically correct that, as it stands, it doesn't *strictly* adhere to the rules, but we tend to apply a common sense approach to those.
The ultimate question is whether removing a minor redirect completely in order to avoid a minor infringement of the rules would- in practice- improve anyone's experience or reduce potential confusion. And it's pretty certain that it wouldn't.
As per the BLARer, Diamond Platnumz is his most prominent collaborator. Restore, and it may be taken to AfD if desired. Jay 💬06:12, 26 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I support and confirm the existence of the error, but although you can use the existing name for alternative mainstream writers, I don't know if Spain has its own William Burroughs and Timothy Leary, but there probably is.--Yasnodark (talk) 13:25, 26 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It's also mentioned at Google Fiber#First city selection process, which might be a better retarget option because it gives more context. Thepharoah17, I'm having a hard time believing your nomination. What searches did you conduct to conclude that there is no evidence of any affinity between Google Island and Sarasota? A Wikipedia search for this would give you the answer immediately. A Google search for "Google Island" gave me some results pertaining to Welcome to Google Island, but there are plenty of results for Sarasota (and searching including 'Sarasota' would help even more). --Tavix(talk)14:38, 26 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No mention of this supposed staff neologism at the target article. People who want to read the article on "Google" would search for "Google". Utopes(talk / cont)03:08, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
My point was that people who search for "Greyglers" would not just want to read the article on Google (with no mention of Greyglers), or else they would've just searched "Google" if that's what they wanted. Therefore a subsection or anchor would be required to pinpoint this redirect but there is none. I might have mixed up the verbiage, apologies. Utopes(talk / cont)05:24, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
For the record though, I'm not putting up THAT much of a contest against those who are of the opinion that the 'Mexican-style burgers' Casablanca found aren't enough to demonstrate WP:RLANG affinity; if consensus is that this should be deleted for that reason, I'm okay with it 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 20:45, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete both. Mexico is hardly the only Spanish-speaking country, so it's inappropriate to redirect to specific content about it. On top of that, it's still just the Spanish word for "hamburger", notably a loanword from English, with no particular reason to have a redirect for it. 35.139.154.158 (talk) 20:34, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
you'd be surprised, but delete both as vague. the term does primarily refer to yeehaw bread in all the languages that have it, but it's also generally used to refer to hamburgians (as in people from hamburg) who happen to also be female. in all such cases, there's no affinity anyway, so it's no big loss consarn(grave)(obituary)20:33, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep the correctly-spelled redirect because it's mentioned in the article. I would oppose refining to the Mexico section (even though it's the only section that currently contains a mention) due to the concerns expressed about redirecting to a specific Spanish-speaking country. --Tavix(talk)21:16, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete both as hopelessly ambiguous; these seem much more plausible as general screams or keyboard mashes then references to one specific video game or Chinese tourist classification. * Pppery *it has begun...23:41, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I find both useful, though take that with a grain of salt as I am a Chinese nerd. I don't see why these redirects should be deleted, as anyone looking for screaming would be searching for "screaming" and anyone just smashing their keyboard are not let down in any way by where they get to. Aaron Liu (talk) 02:15, 26 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep both as plausible search terms for their respective targets. We shouldn't reward keyboard mashes and I don't think someone would be looking for Screaming this way. --Tavix(talk)14:41, 26 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete whilst that article did previously list the event, its is correct to only list notable events there e.g. ones with articles. Thus, this event should not be listed at target article, and so redirect is not needed. Joseph2302 (talk) 07:55, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per the previous AfD, which did not have any support for keeping the article—the only !vote was for deletion. --Tavix(talk)13:50, 11 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete; it's not the typical use of WP:SNOW but let's be real: Is there any reasonable reason why AfD would give any result other than Delete, given there's been no functional change to the article since it was AfD'd last if we restore it, and we just proved that Redirecting isn't a viable option? 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 23:43, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Both pages were redirected because they lacked "in-depth coverage from independent, reliable sources to show they pass WP:GNG". This creates a new problem where the target article makes no mention of the events. FMecha (to talk|to see log) 15:46, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes target UK Rampage to WWE in the United Kingdom (I have also contributed to it and it has a mention now of that topic). On the other hand WWF European Rampage may not be currently covered in WWE but it's still the only sensical place to target it to if it must. Hbkid2 (talk) 23:11, 12 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
If a new article is not suitable for mainspace, it is either speedy deleted, AfDed or converted as an ATD. Redirecting and deleting at RfD is not a shortcut to deletion. Take WWF European Rampage to AfD if it cannot be a redirect. Jay 💬15:07, 16 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Retarget to Keyboard technology as per Thryduulf; if ImStevan is correct and people do use this term, Justjourney is still correct in that it's ambiguous. The proposed retarget discusses pretty much all possibilities, including buckling-spring keyboard, mechanical keyboard, et al. I'd like to note however that the proposed refinement to #Notable Switch Mechanisms is an oddly formatted section; the title presents it as a discussion of multiple mechanisms, but only buckling-spring is talked about, with other mechanisms being discussed further up at Keyboard technology#Keystroke sensing. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 18:04, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, implausible search term, not mentioned at the target. Somewhat similar (albeit not identical) to some specific, minor brand names, that might be a more likely target of such a search, and for which I don't see any coverage on WP (not surprisingly). 35.139.154.158 (talk) 23:15, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Agree with Lunamann that the suggested #Notable_switch_mechanisms is an oddly formatted section with no content other than one sub-section #Buckling_spring. So shouldn't the target be Buckling spring to which the redirect Clicky keyboard also points? Jay 💬17:48, 13 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as vague. This is clearly a term people use but not for with a consistent, specific referent. Mechanical keyboards and certain "gaming keyboards" appear to be the most common meanings, along with 80's and 90's style keyboards like the Model M but not specific to this product. I agree with Lunamann, this could refer to any number of keyboards. Keyboard technology is a better target than a specific section, since the term is not used with specificity, but this seems too broad to be helpful. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk01:31, 26 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Now that all the mentions of this are gone from the target (although I don't know if they've ever been there?), how about redirect to wiktionary? Stumbling9655 (talk) 07:41, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
RetargetHodl to Hödl as per Shhhnotsoloud, tag as R to diacritic. It's plausible that someone could type in Hodl while meaning for Hödl; not everyone has access to the keys that would allow someone to type an ö character. On the flipside, DeleteHODL as per WP:RETURNTORED. Vgbyp may be right in that there's enough info to make a full article for this topic; in that case, we need to delete the redirect, so that someone in the future will be alerted that we don't have information on the topic, rather than pipe it to Wiktionary. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 00:10, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Also reaffirming retarget/delete as per Pppery; one sentence with a link to wikt isn't enough to support the redirect, especially when, even after getting to the section in question, you still need to CTRL-F to *find* this tiny piece of discussion of the term. We're WP:NOTWIKTIONARY. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 03:28, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep hodl. Mention is there, and was there at the time of nomination too. To be fair, the term was bundled here by Shhhnotsoloud, and not by nom. Also tag it as an {{R from merge}} as it was merged to the target, as mentioned at the second AfD. Second choice, retarget to the Hödl dab if the Bitcoin entry is added there. If the uppercase HODL is used for the same term, keep, otherwise delete. Jay 💬09:14, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as long as it has a mention, which it does at this time. And as long as the mention indicates that "Hodl is a term meaning..." and links to a source that uses "HODL" in all caps (which it does), then HODL is a fairly harmless alternate-cap redirect. The solution should be adding a hatnote saying "Hodl redirects here, for the surname, see Hödl". Utopes(talk / cont)02:23, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
RetargetHodl →Hödl and deleteHODL. Redirects to diacritics are quite useful for en.wiki readers. "HODL" is barely mentioned in the Bitcoin article. It would be more useful to send readers to search, where the term is mentioned in several articles. {{Wiktionary}} and {{canned search}} for hodl, HODL, etc. could be added to Hödl to help readers typing "hodl" instead of "HODL". --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk15:21, 26 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Ditto Myceteae. The current target's text never mentions the all-caps variant; as long as it doesn't warrant mention in the text, it looks like an error. No objection to recreation if consensus holds that HODL should be present in the article. And the various Hödls are seemingly more long-term significant than this slang term; we can just throw a See also ==> bitcoin§Use for investment and status as an economic bubble into the Hödl disambiguation page. Nyttend (talk) 21:18, 26 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Retarget to RSP per above: Sampling the WhatLinksHere-s, most editors use TABLOID to characterize sources instead of making WP:NOT arguments. Aaron Liu (talk) 02:13, 26 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The phrase "These United States (of America)" became prominent in the wake of the American Civil War, while usage has declined, it's unambiguous and can only serve to help the reader. Casablanca 🪨(T)21:24, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. The article doesn't mention algebra or geometry, and the two appearances of "group" are in the phrase "a group of Jewish physicists" and "Dutch Astronomer and Skeptics Group Settled". When the redirect was created in 2013, the article mentioned this string — it's the title of a serial edited by the subject — but it's disappeared from the article at some point over the intervening twelve years, so we don't need the redirect anymore. Nyttend (talk) 20:46, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Lean delete. It's not an XY issue and is a plausible redirect to this target—Algebras, Groups and Geometries is a real publication that Santilli edited and has published in.[2][3] However, if content about the journal hasn't been deemed appropriate to keep in his article then the redirect is not particularly useful. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk15:08, 26 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The page had been moved yesterday to this title, which is obviously incorrect as only one of the involved aircraft was a C-130; the other was a PB4Y-2. It has since been moved back, and this redirect is further useless because it was the page's title for only about a day. Mr slav999 (talk) 18:23, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Only mentioned in passing at the target. This probably could be an article on its own, and I cannot find a good target for it, so deletion might be the best option Casablanca 🪨(T)17:58, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. "SwissEnergy" appears to be a company that sells snake oil dietary supplements, that almost certainly doesn't pass WP:CORP and has no connection with Switzerland. Tevildo (talk) 20:46, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
dere's no list in da target. not for clanz (bad moonz, blood axes, evil sunz, etc.), not for klasses (shoota boyz, kommando boyz, etc.), not for individual gitz (ghazghkull, tuska, nazdreg, etc.). waz an artikle 15 years ago, but all da sourcez (all two of 'em) waz primary. i say we delete as vague an' unmenshuned. this actually hurt to type and keep understandable, wow, i'm not doing this again CONSARN(WAAAGH!)(ME GUBBINS)14:48, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Deletion's back on the menu, boys There's also the "this isn't a name specific to Warhammer 40k" problem-- admittedly in many settings it's spelled "orcs" (or, y'know, "uruk-hai") and not "orks", but I'm not sure that's enough to narrow down to specifically 40k. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 15:30, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, I didn't catch it til after I hit Enter: uruk-hai is simply a redirect to orc, which in turn is specifically about the race as written by Tolkein-- and says that an alternate name for THAT is 'Orks'. My speculation on WP:XY has a lot more ground than I thought it did LOL 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 15:42, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Besides the fact that the concept of similarly-spelled Orc is not exclusive to the Warhammer 40,000 universe, Ork is a disambiguation page. No clue what anyone could be expecting if searching this title. Steel1943 (talk) 22:01, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Is it because Varahagiri is his middle name? And is it his middle name, or first name? And I'm not referring to the second "V". Jay 💬10:39, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Better as a redlink. We now have two unrelated pages linking to this, a redirect to a soft redirect to Wiktionary. Fram (talk) 12:38, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: To clarify, I am the creator of both the redirect and its target (thought there was a template for this but couldn't find it). The links to shinebox were already there; one is for an album, and the other for a band, neither are mentioned at wikt:shine box. I did not check for incoming links when I made the redirect, which is my mistake. Now that I look at it, it would probably be easiest to delete this and let those redlinks remain as Fram suggested. No inappropriate incoming links to shine box so that should be fine to leave as is. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 16:34, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
delete because once again, the closer seized upon AtD without really considering the arguments made against keeping the place name article. As usual, the township has a list of supposed "unincorporated communities", but since the point of the nomination was that there's a lack of sourcing for Plano being a "community" (i.e., a settlement) in the first place, the entry needs to be removed in the township article; and then there's no reason to point this particle to it. Mangoe (talk) 11:42, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Unhelpful redirect as it can mean any new film, TV series, Comics, etc. Which will then need updating and fixing links. Gonnym (talk) 08:01, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. A couple of decades ago some folks in the fandom did use this term (or its abbreviation "NT") to distinguish the then-current second animated series with the first animated series, which was abbreviated at "OT" for "original TMNT". Not that the first animated series was actually the original TMNT. That would be the black-and-white independent comic by Eastman & Laird. Even then there had been many other incarnations of the franchise before 2003, in comics, film, television, and an infamous musical stage show. Between that false dichotomy, and the fact that the franchise has had multiple incarnations since, the redirect is useless. oknazevad (talk) 17:11, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles universe seems to create new media quicker than rabbits reproduce. (I think one of the series even had an episode where the basis of the episode was to include versions of the characters from different TMNT series/universes, similar to the concept in Spider-Man: No Way Home.) This redirect will perpetually always be vague and unclear. Steel1943 (talk) 22:04, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This is the name of a blog that is not discussed at the target article. People who search for this would be led to believe that we have information about this particular blog, when we do not. Someone who wants to read about the subject of keyword would be confused on the overarching page of Google that does not give insight for this incoming search term. Utopes(talk / cont)03:02, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep. "The Keyword" is the title of Google's official blog. See https://blog.google/about. One might say we already mention the blog in the target article, albeit only as sources and in an external link. I just added the blog title to the external link. I don't think we'll want to add any more details about the blog to the article, it just doesn't seem important enough. I'm not sure how useful the redirect is, but it doesn't seem incorrect or in other ways harmful. — Chrisahn (talk) 03:19, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I think if the blog was an actually unique title then the external link is probably enough, but at the same time beginning a topic with "the" is a likely method (albeit an unsupported one) of searching for any topic, in this case, Keyword. Retargeting to the dab was attempted back in 2021, but it was retargeted back. I would support retargeting to Keyword and creating an entry for "The Keyword, the official blog of Google" on the dab page, as that way the information is communicated without leaving people guessing why they ended up at the massive page for the entire company. It currently forces them to scroll to the bottom to find out "ohhh, it's because there's an external link on this page called 'the keyword', that's why I'm here". Mind as well search for "Google" at that point to receive the same experience. Utopes(talk / cont)03:30, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as redirect creator. The main purpose of this redirect was to facilitate linking in citation templates that use The Keyword as a reference. Its existence is necessary because unlike most other companies that simply post their press releases on a generically named subpage of their main corporate site, e.g. [4][5][6][7], Google's official newsfeed is a standalone site with its own unique name, so piping it as [[Google|The Keyword]] would be a confusing WP:EGG link that looks like vandalism. Disambiguation is not necessary here because it is not ambiguous per WP:SMALLDETAILS, WP:TITLEPTM, and WP:THE: no other article listed at Keyword (disambiguation) is titled The Keyword, emphasis on "The" and the capital "K" — distinctions that the average reader would not go out of their way to type in the search bar unless they are looking for this topic. Thus, there are only partial title matches with a low risk of confusion with The Keyword, and there is nothing to disambiguate The Keyword from. A {{redirect-distinguish}} hatnote may be added to Google to address any concerns. InfiniteNexus (talk) 05:10, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Linking in citation templates is definitely a good reason to have a redirect, as long as the connection between the keywords of "The Keyword" and "Google" is evident at the target. Where I saw an issue is that "The Keyword is the official blog of Google" is not something that was stated within the prose of Google, until recently when it was added into the external link section. Because The keyword is a redlink, WP:SMALLDETAILS is out of scope because people who search for "the keyword" in lowercase will also be taken to Google, and might not notice that the search funneled through a capital "K" instead of the lowercase "k" they used. The best case scenario I could see with keeping is potentially refiningThe Keyword to go to Google#External links, which is the only way that people who search for "The Keyword" can be taken directly to the ___location where their keyword of "The Keyword" is discussed and mentioned as the "official blog". But that's probably a weird solution, lol. Utopes(talk / cont)21:03, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Any noun could plausibly be referred to / searched for using "a" or "the" in front, including the nouns on the disambiguation page. It's not how we do redirects on Wikipedia, but it's not impossible for someone who doesn't know to include "a" or "the" before searching for a noun. Someone who searches for "The foo" will never usually be met with a redirect, but "foo" will still be the first result of a Wikipedia search and give them the answer they wanted firstly. Similarly, "Keyword" is the first result for people who search for "The keyword" on Wikipedia, for anyone who wants to read about the keyword terminology. I don't think going around and creating "the foo"->"foo" redirects is that helpful, but this is a unique situation. Here, I would support refining The Keyword to Google#External links so people actually know why they ended up at the target they did. How do you feel about this solution? Utopes(talk / cont)19:02, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I can't find any results about Angela Merkel when searching this name in quotes. Her maiden name was changed from Kaźmierczak to Kasner 24 years before she was born so she never went by it; I don't see how this could be a plausible search term. Zzz plant (talk) 03:07, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep similar to Benjamin Mileikowsky, it is used by political opponents. Personally, I do not see what is so bad about being Polish, but that is irrelevant. You can see that it does get pageviews so it is harmless, not libelious in any way, and WP:CHEAP. I would also like to note that original research does not apply to redirects, as the goal of redirects is to get the reader to the correct article. [8] has it being used, [9] and Family of Angela Merkel show that her ancestors used it. 🇪🇭🇵🇸🇸🇩 Easternsahara 🇪🇭🇵🇸🇸🇩 19:28, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. The above keep vote is nonsensical -- off-wiki references to this are completely irrelevant. Links to, or searches for, this topic are presumably looking for information about this topic, not a different one. Since we seem to have no such coverage, this should be deleted. 35.139.154.158 (talk) 18:27, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep for two reasons. If there is a book title then that seems an appropriate match, and it seems a nickname for Fuller that would fit the topic. The page is searched for occasionally, so no harm in keeping it around. Randy Kryn (talk) 11:42, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirecting book titles to the book topics (without a mention) is not a helpful practice, as readers are likely to be looking for information on the book. 1234qwer1234qwer401:46, 26 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. The keep vote above is bizarre. There absolutely is harm in maintaining a redirect about a topic we have no content about to a different topic. It's not only useless, but it actively wastes the time of those looking for information about the book. 35.139.154.158 (talk) 18:21, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete The target could be any topic involving both Japan and Korea. The subject seems to be too broad and not useful as a disambiguation page. It could be a war between Japan and Korea, a summit between Japanese and Korean representatives or a competition where Japanese people competed against Korean people. --Stefan2 (talk) 06:49, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete While points are mentioned sparingly in the achievement article, it doesn't seem like a major aspect. Delete as overly vague and unhelpful. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 04:08, 26 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per above. While it might not be a formal abbreviation it is one I've seen used on maps to denote Portuguese territories/possessions (e.g. [10]), and I'm not seeing any evidence that it's used for anything else. A hatnote to the dab can be added if desired, but none of the current entries there are abbreviations and none seem to be styled that way. Thryduulf (talk) 22:23, 10 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Does not seem to be a standard abbreviation for anything. A retarget to the dab page is inappropriate over the main port page, because what on there would make any more sense than the primary topic? And once we're there, we're left with a random word with a period on the end; these sorts of unnatural redirects are routinely deleted. 35.139.154.158 (talk) 05:49, 11 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
does not seem to be a standard abbreviation for anything other than "Portugal" on maps as I noted (with a source) in my comment. Thryduulf (talk) 12:37, 11 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Just because some random-ass obscure map used it one time doesn't make it standard. In order to qualify for a redirect, it should be a well known abbreviation, and such an abbreviation should be noted in the lead of the article, neither of which seem to be the case here. Otherwise, who's to say it's not an ad hoc abbreviation for any other random word that starts with "port..."? 35.139.154.158 (talk) 15:02, 11 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
1909 National Geographic Map1932 National Geographic Map. It's not just some random-ass obscure map nor is it one time it has been used extensively on many maps in many atlases for many years. Other examples [11], [12], [13], [14] and there are many others (Sao Tome and the Azores are useful areas to look at to see this). Thryduulf (talk) 17:46, 11 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Firstly WP:PANDORA is actively misleading nonsense (see WP:NOTPANDORA for the explanation) and should never be cited as anything other than an example of the harm a shortcut can do. Secondly, the other discussions you cite are completely irrelevant as they are not abbreviations and had no evidence of use. This is an abbreviation with strong evidence of use going back over a century at least. Thryduulf (talk) 19:39, 11 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The maps demonstrate that it has a long history as an abbreviation for Portugal, regardless of the existence or nonexistence of a specific standard. This isn't opening a Pandora's box at all; it's supporting a very common and very natural abbreviation. And because it's an abbreviation, the concluding full stop is not random or problematic, unlike Wikipedia. and other redirects with trailing full stops. Nyttend (talk) 21:33, 12 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose retarget because it wrongly creates the impression that professeur is innately a specific academic rank, instead of in reality a general word for "teacher" or "professor" of any rank in French. — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (Goodbye!) 22:31, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as ambiguous and not really suitable for a disambiguation page. Francophone education is a redlink, but if we have an article under some other title that covers education in francophone countries, I'd prefer retargeting there over deletion. Nyttend (talk) 21:09, 26 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This is not the most prominent shooting in Manhattan—redirects aren't exercises in category theory, they're a tool to get readers successfully from names they might think of or use to the articles they ultimately wanted to go to. Please be aware of this fundamental concept before engaging in further frantic shufflings. Remsense 🌈 论22:43, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
WP:NOTNEWS Wikipedia is not a newspaper. Many crimes have been called a "Manhattan shooting". It is such that it is used all the time. Such as a random shooting in 2017 [15], one in 2016 [16], or another in 2013 [17]. The title is not precise enough to target any single crime. -- 65.93.183.181 (talk) 23:04, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Really such a shame and too bad that there is no such discussion venue for this, like a DpfD/DPFD, i.e. "Disambiguation pages for deletion" or "Disambiguation pages for discussion". But at least we have a G14 speedy deletion criterion. Intrisit (talk) 20:04, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Restore the disambiguation page without prejudice to AfD. There is very clearly no primary topic for this term, so the only viable options are a dab page or nothing, which is discussion for AfD if anyone wants to have it. Thryduulf (talk) 23:32, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Restore as a disambiguation page. There are several topics that this can refer to; not all of these are referred to as "the Manhattan shooting", but all of them are "Manhattan shootings". – Epicgenius (talk) 13:49, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
That page is already loaded with multiple similar but unrelated links that it may confuse an average WP visitor, let alone editor, so having its own DAB page might "clear the air" with regards to zooming straight to the preferred article. That's what I wanted for Lionsgate before it ended up where it ended up! Intrisit (talk) 20:00, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Restore or create the DAB for this title per others above, although AFD looks funny to me. 65.93.183.181, if it's the same guy seeing this here, 2017, 2016 and 2013 – even 2014 – shootings in Manhattan where most news outlet bureaus/bureaux are based will always generate some sort of uproar, which will later be transferred to or translted as articles here on WP, after all the 2023 Union Square riot with Kai Cenat kind of giving away consoles and its related likes. Intrisit (talk) 19:56, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This user Indeblues attempted a DAB/SIA creation earlier this day with only one entry (the target article title). An IP editor requested a G14 deletion which was declined by BusterD. Due to a little bit of content with this title as an R3 deletion may be declined by that user, who's an admin by the way, so listing this here for discussion. Worth stll keeping this? Intrisit (talk) 21:42, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Also a reply to @Eureka Lott: That title is AFD-worthy because only one straight link links to it with the others being to where it's mentioned instead of it being incubated into a hatnote. Intrisit (talk) 20:07, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment this and related redirects were discussed and kept at RfD in 2022 when they were mentioned in the target article. The consensus of commenters there was very much that the mention in the article was DUE. Thryduulf (talk) 23:43, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Target article never mentions Bradtmoore, making this redirect more confusing than helpful. I have no idea what Bradtmoore is/was and neither does anyone else on WP, it seems, so why do we have this redirect? WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 19:28, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, missed the half-sentence mention. Still, former names of long-abolished post offices are not notable and are an unlikely search term for someone looking for information on Heber. Suggest deletion. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 19:32, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Anyone searching for this place would learn that there was a post office with the name a half-mile north of Heber. Of course the post office wouldn't be notable but that's why it's a redirect and not a stand-alone article. --Tavix(talk)14:57, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The TV station that most commonly branded as CBS46 or CBS 46, now WANF in Atlanta, disaffiliated from the CBS network this month. There is one CBS affiliate on channel 46, KION-TV in California (which brands as News Channel 46). JAV317 repointed CBS 46 to KION-TV, so now we have two redirects pointing in opposite directions. All uses of the redirects were for the Atlanta station and almost exclusively in citation templates; I have deliberately bypassed the redirects in about 12 or 13 uses to go to WANF for futureproofing and to avoid confusion.
Note I've added CBS 46 to this discussion as they should both point to the same target. I don't currently have an opinion what that should be, but disambiguation is another option to consider. Thryduulf (talk) 23:46, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The phrase "biotechnology product" is nowhere in the target article, leaving readers not arriving at their intended information. Steel1943 (talk) 19:03, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete but not for the nominator's rationale: If someone is searching for a list of the "top N foo" and arrives at a ranked list of foo that contains at least N entries they have arrived at the content they are looking for regardless of whether the list contains exactly N, N+1, 2N or even 100N entries. For example someone searching for the 10 most populous countries is well served by a redirect to List of countries and dependencies by population where they can easily find the top 10. The issue with this redirect is that the target list is not ranked in any way so someone using the term will not find the information they are looking for (regardless of what they mean by "top"). Thryduulf (talk) 23:57, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
CommentABC, ABCD and ABCDEFG are dab pages, ABCDE is a redlink but was previously an article about a software programme that was deleted at AfD. This title was created as a redirect to Latin script in April 2024 but retargetted to the present target about 12 hours later. Previously (2017) this was what appears to have been a straight-up copy of the then-current revision of the Alphabet article that was speedily deleted under A10. Thryduulf (talk) 13:46, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Disambiguate. Comparable to ABCDEFG, but that one has more possible targets. Here we can add ABC (medicine)#ABCDEF, and perhaps the " American Boys' Club for the Defense of Errol Flynn" (mentioned in [[Errol Flynn). Deleting certainly serves no one. Fram (talk) 07:53, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: the paragraph was poorly cited, part uncited, so if it is to be "restored" then it has to be properly written from reliable medical sources, as the claim sounds like pseudoscientific nutrient marketing to me. If there is any genuine evidence it must be compliant with WP:MEDRS. If that can be found I'll support. user:Zefr, what do you think? Chiswick Chap (talk) 05:59, 16 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
There's nothing in the medical literature to support any significance for avenalin as an individual nutrient, apart from its contribution to oat protein structure. It's a moot point anyway - when oat protein (or any food protein source) enters the stomach and is digested by gastric acids and enzymes, amino acids are the outcome.Zefr (talk) 06:33, 16 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, avenalin should not be redirected to or mentioned in the oat nutrient section. Avenalin is not measured separately as part of the macronutrient protein composition of oats, and its fate after digestion into amino acids cannot be measured. There are no MEDRS sources to support any unique effect of avenalin. The current Oat#Nutrients section is sufficient in content and consistent with the descriptive format for other foods. Zefr (talk) 15:19, 16 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Chiswick Chap and Zefr. Avenalin is not mentioned at the target and any mention has been repeatedly removed, with cause. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk22:17, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The AfD literally says that mention has been added to the target, though as a footnote per Thryduulf. And as the AfD nomination said, This video game company appears to have only worked on one game, PlanetSide..., it makes more sense to keep the redirect here, and tag as {{R from creator}}. Jay 💬06:06, 10 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Jay. Anyone searching for this will be redirected to the only information Wikipedia has on the subject. That it's in a footnote is still more helpful than nothing. --Tavix(talk)14:49, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
"Associative thinking" is really not the same as Magical thinking. In the past, the Magical thinking article had some mentions of Associative thinking, but all of them were removed. There were also several discussions about removing the redirect, but they never reached a proper conclusion. You can see more details and links to previous discussions at Talk:Magical thinking#"Associative thinking" redirect. Redirecting "Associative thinking" to Association (psychology) is an option, too, and it would be better than the current situation, but the best outcome is probably to write a separate "Associative thinking" article and to let it be a red link until it's written. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 04:53, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Seems unlikely, and potentially unhelpful since redirects for Mrray or any other person named Murray spelt with this typo do not exist, which can lead to this redirect inhibiting the search rather than it being corrected by the MediaWiki search engine. 1234qwer1234qwer403:05, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
delete, sort of per nom. this definitely seems like the kind of case where, if it was a common enough tpo, we should have more than one redirect with it. also the third r is lowercase, which i normally support, but i'll count that as another typo if there's already one, but that's besides the point consarn(grave)(obituary)21:09, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. This is by far the primary topic. Googling "Tel Aviv 1968" -Wikipedia literally every hit on the first four pages of results is about the Paralympics, as are all but 2 on page 5 (and one of the ones that isn't is an ebay listing) and all but 4 on page 6. Thryduulf (talk) 09:13, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Potentially misleading redirect. There is a sentence in the target article that somewhat resembles this redirect, and the redirect could be cited as a true statement ... but the target article is not what the redirect is about. That, and the redirect could potentially have WP:XY issues since if it can target the current page, it could equally target Rational number. Steel1943 (talk) 20:59, 9 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: I see three different potential targets mentioned, which means there is no consensus yet. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Left guide (talk) 20:50, 16 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. This is a phrase readers are likely to encounter but not one they reasonably expect to have an encyclopedia entry. Three reasonable targets have been suggested. This is more trivia than an encyclopedia query, so a DAB is not called for. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk22:18, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Myceteae, this is just a statement and not the subject that one would type in expecting to be the subject of an article about this statement. Search results would be helpful to indicate the many articles that might use pieces of this statement. Utopes(talk / cont)21:00, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
There is a template for the Hanse Merchants Act but not enough detailed information about this Act to be useful for readers. I think this redirect is misleading or the target article should have more data on the page. LizRead!Talk!21:14, 16 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'm a bit confused on why it redirects to Arbaclofen placarbil, a prodrug to (R)-baclofen (Pubchem CID 44602), as I believe that chemically, Arbaclofen would refer to (R)-baclofen, and not a prodrug. As arketamine (CID 644025) refers to (R)-Ketamine, for example. In my opinion, maybe there should be a section on the baclofen page about (R)-baclofen, if there is significant differences at the medical level from the racemic mixture. Themonkey942 (talk) 15:01, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as is. Someone searching specifically for "arbaclofen" is almost certainly looking for the pharmaceutically-relevant use of this compound which is in the form of arbaclofen placarbil rather than baclofen. If in the future there is a section at the baclofen page about arbaclofen, then maybe the redirect can be changed at that point. But currently, the reader is best served by redirecting them to arbaclofen placarbil. Marbletan (talk) 19:21, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Retarget to baclofen and tag with {{R with possibilities}} per Duckmather, possibly with hatnote to Arbaclofen placarbil, ordelete. Scholarly literature has many references to arbaclofen as distinct from the prodrug. There is precedent for redirecting the pharmacologically (more) active enantiomer to the parent compound, with dextromethamphetamine → methamphetamine, where levomethamphetamine has a separate article, but the situation here is not exactly the same and the dextro- enantiomer is discussed extensively in the meth article. The prodrug is not the same as the active drug arbaclofen, and arbaclofen appears to be written about more frequently than the prodrug. It's entirely likely readers will come across this molecule and want to read about it, and would find more relevant content at baclofen. The article on the racemic compound could also be expanded to discuss the active enantiomer. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk00:06, 16 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: There are several options. Let's see if we can reach consensus. Final relist. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, voorts (talk/contributions) 22:41, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Retarget to baclofen and tag. That's where the most relevant info is on Wikipedia, currently. The article should be expanded to mention the R-enantiomer specifically as there are many scholarly reviews describing how it has been studied. ⇌Synpath16:56, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Unmentioned at BOTH targets. The Chastity belt (BDSM) page DOES mention "the CB series of plastic chastity cages", but doesn't go into any detail about the cages themselves, only talking about the creators.
I will note that one of the pictures on the Chastity belt (BDSM) page depicts what appears to be a CB series chastity cage. As recently as this 2018 edit, an image that was explicitly noted to be a CB-6000 was on the page; the edit right after this removed the picture entirely after being on the page since... well, definitely this 2008 edit but according to the history it's even older. The current image depicting an unknown CB-series(?) chastity cage was added in 2019.𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 19:17, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete both. The specific products are not mentioned at either target and there's no evidence that they are notable enough that the should be. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk22:43, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose making a generic rule. As some redirects of this pattern are useful, some are not. Specifically, keepHow to pronounce English as that's a very useful and plausible search term for someone who doesn't know the word "phonology" (for example a learners of English, who are quite likely to be looking up that article). DeleteHow to make a Mayday call, regardless of whether this is a good search term the target article does not contain that information so the redirect is misleading. No opinion about the others at the moment. Thryduulf (talk) 22:07, 14 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Not seeing what we gain by deleting these likely searches (NOTHOWTO is Wikipedian-facing, not public-facing, after all), or why a TfD would set precedent for RfD. Not an RfD regular, though, so FWIW (just noticed the knight's tour nom). — Rhododendritestalk \\ 16:18, 17 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It is unclear what a reader would be looking for if they searched up this redirect, especially considering the use of the word "some". It is most likely not the target subject. In addition, the wording of this reader makes it seem as though it may refer to any subject at Mohawk (disambiguation), such as Mohawk hairstyle. Steel1943 (talk) 00:46, 13 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Back in May 2005 this was created as a poorly formatted list of phrases in the Mohawk language (fixing the format would take less than a minute so that's not relevant). That content is exactly what I'd expect to find at this search term - some phrases in the Mohawk language. It was "merged/redirected" (I don't know which) to the current target in August that same year. If it was merged then it's likely this is required for attribution. Thryduulf (talk) 01:40, 13 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It was merged in this edit: [21]. The page was created in one edit by an IP in 2005 and blanked very shortly after, so we could attribute the history on the talk page of Mohawk language if we wanted to. However, I think a better idea is to probably just move without redirect to Mohawk phrases per above, which preserves the history and accommodates a decent search term at the same time. Utopes(talk / cont)03:15, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
There isn't really an obvious target (that is, one article which has adequate coverage of the subject). The only article where the phrase itself ("free-market socialism") is used is Market socialism#Classical economics, so my initial suggestion is to Retarget all there. Tevildo (talk) 18:45, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all much of these are not found in any way on their target pages, and might well be entirely different from what I can tell. Better suited as their own concept in a sub-section first if redirects were to be appropriate then. Not as is. Iljhgtn (talk) 00:22, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The two discussions do not affect each other. This is about a subtle but confusing capitalization issue where {{Gaza war}} is a navbox, but {{Gaza War}} (with a capital W) is a redirect to a completely different navbox, which I discovered when making the merge nomination referenced above. Note that the merge nomination is the other way round to what the editor above suggests, whatever the outcome of that discussion, {{Gaza war}} will still exist, it's the other navbox that may get merged or deleted. --woodensuperman12:58, 14 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - assuming that WP:NCCPT was actually followed, "Gaza War is a proper name for the Gaza War (2008–2009) while Gaza war is a common name for the current conflict. Both wars have a number of other common names as do the 2012 Gaza War and 2014 Gaza War. If the current articles are improperly named, that should be corrected first before the templates are changed. EvansHallBear (talk) 19:49, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
For what it's worth, I oppose this "oppose" since WP:NCCPT is regards to titling of articles in the article namespace; this page is neither as it is a redirect in the "Template:" namespace. The nominator obviously made the nomination since it's a minor capitalization difference between Template titles; in fact, now that the related TFD is closed, I'm changing my vote. Steel1943 (talk) 05:39, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This level of confusion requires a significant cleanup and I would like to propose a categorical move of all articles directly relating to the ongoing Gaza war and including it in the title itself to include the (2023–) or (2023–present) qualifier (and should the war ever end, to whichever year it ends). Frank(has DemoCracyDeprivaTion)15:08, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I also oppose this option. For one, the article is titled Gaza war without "war" being capitalized. For two, the aforementioned article refers to the incident which started in 2023, meaning the article in the template names currently match. Lastly, due to all these issues, such a proposal really needs to be dealt with on WP:RM; my suggestion would be to start a move proposal on Talk:Gaza war to make Gaza war a disambiguation page. (Disclaimer: This is just my idea based on what I've read so far on this discussion. I do not support or oppose this option. Also, this comment is responding to the initial comment, not the follow-up; my level of indent is purposeful.) Steel1943 (talk) 22:03, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
None of the subjects listed in the target disambiguation page represent verb-like subjects; all of the subjects are nouns. This means that redirecting the present participle form of "lure" to the disambiguation page is misleading since the redirect represents no alternative forms of any of the subjects listed at the disambiguation page. Delete unless a proper target is found. Steel1943 (talk) 21:00, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I agree that the conventional use of the verb matches these. I had a look at what this redirect replaces - this search output, and it seems there's three topics of aggressive mimicry that are not properly documented here: caudal luring, lingual luring, acoustical luring. We could add these in the existing list, or we could split this out into a separate disambiguation list, and have the two of them link to one another. --Joy (talk) 08:39, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: One more try. There have been no additions to the Lure disambiguation page. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Jay 💬04:06, 12 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@EurekaLott why is it unreasonable for a reader to look up "luring", and then expect to be efficiently navigated to articles about the known types of luring? --Joy (talk) 07:27, 13 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Biology isn't my area of expertise, but from what I can tell from the articles, acoustical luring, caudal luring, and lingual luring are not referred simply as "luring," which makes them WP:PTMs that don't belong on the disambiguation page. The guideline is intended to keep disambiguation pages manageable and uncluttered. The Aggressive mimicry article, which covers the overall concept, should be a good fit for the page, though. - Eureka Lott02:24, 14 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, and keep the aggressive mimicry entries on the DAB page. I've updated the lead to say Lure or luring may refer to: This is overall the most sensible solution. Luring is a plausible enough search term for fishing lure and several other entries on the page. The article on aggressive mimicry discusses various types of "luring" under § Luring prey and uses this phrase several times, as well as luring pollinators. I don't know that biologists would typically use luring unqualified as an umbrella term for these behaviors, but it is a plausible search term. Combining similar terms, word forms, and variants on a single DAB page is explicitly allowed per WP:DABCOMBINE and is common practice. Adding a few more entries to Lure is more parsimonious than creating a separate Luring DAB page that duplicates some of the entries or points readers to a second DAB page for topics that include lure but not luring in the title. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk00:10, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. This was originally a stub with a single reference that no longer points to anything supporting the content. It was redireted to Moloko Temo in 2008 and that article was subsequently made a redirect to Longevity myths in 2019, following its second AfD. It doesn't appear any content from Kookoo Molookoo was merged into any other articles and there is no useful history. The name "Kookoo Molookoo" smacks of vandalism in the form of mocking a "foreign-sounding" name. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk00:21, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Restore. This page was kept at AfD, and merged after. If no more content at the target, bring the page back. If truly not important, someone can AfD it. Utopes(talk / cont)03:05, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:XY and WP:DIFFCAPS. In addition to what has already been said, when I was searching up this term on third party search engines, I found results for a chain of restaurants named "The General Public". Probably best to delete this redirect to be better safe than sorry. Steel1943 (talk) 22:40, 9 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - I'm not familiar with the game, but the redirect was created back in 2018. Perhaps its been since cancelled or released? Either way, if its not mentioned in the article, it should be deleted for now. It doesn't get many views so there's not much to lose here... Sergecross73msg me20:18, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Two retarget options on the table. Final relist. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, voorts (talk/contributions) 20:47, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Not currently mentioned at target, though apparently contents of the article previously existing at the title had been merged into the target at some point. 1234qwer1234qwer400:41, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Restore, do not keep. No mention of a "catalog" anywhere on the page. People who search for "Business Data Catalog" will be misled by the existence of a redirect that does not answer their questions. It does not seem as if there was any discussion to merge, so undoing that seems to be the action. If people wanted to read about SharePoint instead of Business Data Catalog, they would've searched for "SharePoint". Utopes(talk / cont)05:00, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Each concorde has a section redirect for its registration (e.g. G-BOAA, F-WTSB) but this is the only one with "Concorde" before it. This is an implausible search term as no one would ever call it Concorde G-BOAA; they would call it G-BOAA, Concorde 206, or Alpha Alpha (the phonetic alphabet for AA). JacobTheRox(talk | contributions)20:09, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This character is called "GEOMETRICALLY EQUAL TO" in Unicode, and there is no explanation of this at the target, nor any content related to "geometric equality". 1234qwer1234qwer401:56, 10 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete both per the WP:XY issue brought up by Bugghost, meaning there is more than one possible target. In addition, this title is probably not suitable for a disambiguation page. Also, there is also an argument that Mixed liquor could target Liquor, leaving even more WP:XY issues. Steel1943 (talk) 21:02, 9 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep the first, delete the second as per BD2412. The Mixed Cocktail redirect redirecting to Cocktail is unequivocally correct (if an unnecessary disambig that needs to be tagged as such, in the same manner that Japanese bobtail cat > Japanese bobtail is an R from Unnecessary Disambig; all cocktails are mixed). Mixed Liquor, meanwhile, is much less definite; there's an argument of course that every mixed drink containing a liquor is a cocktail, but I'm far less certain on that front than I am with Mixed Cocktail. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 23:36, 10 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep both. A mixed cocktail is obviously a cocktail. And if you mix two kinds of liquor together, that's probably a cocktail too. I don't think there's a problem with mixed drinks, since those include non-alcoholic drinks, and the cocktail page links to the mixed drink page. --Tryptofish (talk) 23:41, 10 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Mixed cocktail as an unnecessary disambig per Lunamann. Keep Mixed liquor, I don't see a problem with it. If it was mixed liquors I would understand that it is about mixing two liquors, but with mixed liquor, I see it is as a liquor mixed with something, which as a cocktail is good enough for me. Jay 💬14:22, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Struck Mixed liquor per Lunamann's discovery of MLSS. It is not only a partial title match, but the article has multiple mentions of "mixed liquor". It will be surprising to retarget Mixed liquor to MLSS, so I'll support the deletion. Jay 💬14:35, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Mixed cocktail and delete Mixed liquor. The first is synonymous with Cocktail and can be tagged as {{R from unnecessary disambiguation}} as others have stated. "Mixed liquor" makes me think of a clumsy attempt to look up something related to the idea that combining different types of booze increases hangover or has other unique effects. It's not a plausible search term for that, and we have at least two other targets that are, so delete per XY. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk00:31, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
while definitely a cute name (by which i mean the opposite >:c), the only official and/or noteworthy instance of this spelling that i can name is as an ending screen in zero hour, which predated and had nothing to do with forever
...is what i would say if there wasn't an actual game called "duke nukem 4ever" that was cancelled, as detailed in the main series' article. thus, i'm kind of torn between retargeting there, returning to red as i've found some results that suggest some level of notability (will show them in a while if i find them to be reliable), and just keeping because who really cares? consarn(grave)(obituary)19:31, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
on second thought, i'll just add them here before evaluation, since i have other stuff to whittle down first. most of those likely aren't reliable at all, but whatever :3
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Notified of this discussion at the proposed target. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Jay 💬07:59, 9 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
sure, i guess. on closer inspection, the sources aren't too usable. the first one is unreliable, the second one seems to be some sort of frankenstein's monster deal, being a news article and blog at the same time but also not, and while the third one is owned by valnet, it actually meets its criterion for reliability, but is still not about 4ever itself consarn(grave)(obituary)23:32, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Retarget to Seoul Street Art Festival. An image has been added with this pun slogan (the addition of a caption or prose elaborating could also provide insight to readers regarding the topic). This generally seems to be what is referred to most commonly by this phrase in notable search results, and we now have content related to it. It can be disambiguated later should we find more ways to cover the topic. — Godsy (TALKCONT)06:57, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, the two options don't really work (people are not going to search for the street art festival by its pun slogan), and the category of Film Festival awards is not substantial. Utopes(talk / cont)19:54, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The fact that there are "lots of issues in Toronto" is reason to keep the redirect pointing to the main Toronto page—where one can get an overview of multiple issues—rather than just one subset of issues such as the environment. --Tavix(talk)16:32, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Issues in Toronto, Ontario if there is no other suitable target. Agree with nom that the huge 18 section generic article is unhelpful as a target to a redirect that promises to provide information about the issues in Toronto. I can't say the same about Issues of Toronto because of attribution "issues" per Eureka. Jay 💬08:31, 17 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
For one, the inclusion of "all" in the redirect title hints that the list is complete, which is never the case since entries can be added or removed since Wikipedia is a work in progress. Also, there is potential for WP:REDLINK since we seem to not have a list of schools in Georgia, the country ... (though we do have a redirect titled "List of schools in GeorgiaList of schools in Georgia" which targets the same target as this redirect, but that's a discussion for a different day since this discussion is to primarily dispute the use of "all" in the title.) Steel1943 (talk) 19:26, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete regarding "all", this is appropriate for some lists and inappropriate for others - see User:Thryduulf/Complete lists. In this case the set of schools in Georgia (either or both) is finite so it's not impossible for a list of all of them to exist so this title is not problematic in and of itself. Nor is the ambiguity a problem - disambiguation and/or hatnotes trivially resolves that issue. The reason I believe that this should be deleted is that even though we could have such a list, we currently do not - List of schools in Georgia (U.S. state) begins with This is a list of some schools in the state of Georgia. (emphasis mine; it would be better if it gave an indication of completeness and/or inclusion criteria, but that's not an issue for this discussion) and we don't have a list (of any completeness) for the country. Thryduulf (talk) 19:51, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Adding 5 titles to this discussion as requested. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Utopes(talk / cont)18:41, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The domains are not mentioned anywhere on the English Wikipedia (and also appear inactive?), and we do not need to redirect every unmentioned proxy service to the target. 1234qwer1234qwer417:31, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete; we do not have similar redirects for other languages of Europe, and they are not mentioned at the target anyway. Unlikely search term and not very helpful redirect. 1234qwer1234qwer417:13, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
In all honesty, I agree with Servite here that articles will be more likely to be created if they are red linked. One can debate the need to delete, but I feel the creation of articles is less likely while there is a working redirect for them, especially for less experienced editors who may think that redirect is purposeful. Mn1548 (talk) 10:41, 12 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Won't comment all all, but either the redirect needs removing and an article actually written or per returntored delete the page so an article can be written in the future. Mn1548 (talk) 09:05, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
There appear to be few links to these articles apart for through navboxes, and when looking at these (for example, {{Wests Tigers}}) the bluelink stops it from being immediately clear which seasons do or do not have articles. Also, instead of redirecting to the club article, a redirect to 2025 NRL season may seem more relevant or useful when linked from places such as the infobox of the 2024 club season. EdwardUK (talk) 18:14, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep all; all of these articles contain information on 2025 lineups, timelines going "to present" (and 2025 is the present), or both. Cremastra is correct that these are not stopping the creation of new articles; information can be added on these redirect pages to expand them into proper articles if anyone is inclined to do that. Utopes(talk / cont)20:24, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Alternative Whispy Woods names and unhelpful lists
Originally thought this was a one and done when I nominated Yggy Woods' redirect earlier, turns out there were a lot more. While the character Whispy Woods seems to have a use on-wiki, a bunch of his variations from when the character list was redirected just are not mentioned anywhere else and seem like particularly minor characters. Additionally, now with the character list gone, many of the older redirects for old character lists merged into the one just redirected are now unhelpful, since the new target does not discuss "Kirby enemies" or bosses as a group. All in all, these are not useful redirects, and should probably be deleted. Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 16:17, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Computerfan0 Twin Woods and Flowery Woods are both unmentioned at the targets and are rather minor characters in the grand scheme of the game. I also feel that even with merging the two redirects are inaccurate; the characters section is not discussing bosses or enemies, and the only ones that would have the coverage to be discussed are minimal and not a good reflection of what a reader would be looking for with that redirect. Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 01:03, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: more input is still desirable here Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Thryduulf (talk) 11:41, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Twin Woods, Whispy Borg, Flowery Woods, Yggdral Woods, Whispy Flowers per nom. Keep Kirby series enemies and Kirby series bosses, in part to preserve their 2005 and 2006 histories, respectively. The target is about the Kirby series and contains information on bosses and enemies from the Kirby series, so it's not too bad fmpov. Utopes(talk / cont)20:20, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
delete whispy borg as technically incorrect (though that's its name in japanese, it goes unmentioned in planet robobot, and it's known as clanky woods in english), yggdral woods (same case, yggy woods in english) as not even the right character, twin woods as a case of return to red (apparently it's a notable-ish golf stadium, yuck), and the rest as unmentioned. absolutely delete the lists, as they were piles of unsourced fancruft that were redirected (not merged) back in october 2007. oppose retargeting the lists to the main article, as it only contains info on two bosses (meta knight and perfect male figure king dedede) and one enemy (waddle dee). bandana dee was a midboss in super star ultra, but i'm not counting that one appearance, he's a FRIEND, he's shaped like a FRIEND, his bandana is made of FRIENDSHIP- consarn(grave)(obituary)00:09, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Convert to subst-only templatethen punt to TfD. Most arguments in WP:FORRED don't apply to Template-space and a bot replacing the foreign language template limits the amount of confusion that can be generated by an editor using one. {{Baustelle}} was created in order to ease the burden at Wikipedia:Database reports/Transclusions of non-existent templates per the edit summary. I don't frequent TfD, but if this is standard practice there then I see no reason not to do the same here. The fact that this and similar "templates" were ever transcluded at all makes it seem likely to happen again (if uncommonly). ⇌Synpath20:23, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The name "XCX World" itself is not mentioned in the target article, despite a mention of the leak which was commonly referred to as "XCX World" by fans (only mentioned in Charli (album) with no sources). Chuterix (talk) 18:59, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Dev can be an alternative transliteration of the Sanskrit Deva, which is the term for deity in Indian religions. I'm not sure what the best target is. Deva#Religion and mythology lists several of the concepts related to Deva, but doesn't list Div (mythology), the current target. 9ninety (talk) 18:49, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Current redirect to Div (mythology) might be misleading because "Dev" is simply another transliteration of Deva, not specifically "Div". Dev is not a notable topic and not used to mean "Deva" in reliable sources. Asteramellus (talk) 20:10, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
That's absurd. In many Indian languages/dialects, the "a" sound at the end of the word isn't actually pronounced; so Dev sounds the same as Deva. This is why Rama is commonly spelt as Ram. So Dev is a very plausible spelling of Deva, which is a notable topic. The problem is, we don't have an article on Deva (mythology). We have individual articles on Deva (Hinduism), Deva (Buddhism) etc., but not the overarching concept, which has roots in ancient Indo-Iranian religion (Deva is related to Daevas, who were similarly venerated by Iranians until they were reinterpreted by Zoroaster as malevolent). 9ninety (talk) 13:21, 16 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and add hatnote to Deva#Religion and mythology noting the spelling/tranlisteration (there are other religions that have similar uses for the term Deva that may also be truncated in speech or in some transliterations). Both appear to be valid alternate spellings/transliterations. older ≠ wiser12:10, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No, the issue concerns disposition of the redirect Dev (mythology) and upon investigation, there are multiple topics that could be referenced by this term. I'd also be OK with changing the redirect to point to Deva#Religion and mythology, although considering the marginal usage, I think a hatnote is sufficient (and easier to describe variant spellings rather than trying to wedge a mention of Div (mythology) into the Deva disambiguation page. older ≠ wiser19:17, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This edit seems to have been the last time this article mentioned 'bobbin' or 'spiral' batteries; this mention traces from 2022 (when it was removed) to 2019 (when it was added). The editor who removed the content in question was @Thumperward; the explanation he gave for the removal was that this is a list article; content belongs in the main articles.He did not indicate that the information was being transplated to anywhere in particular; the only article I can think to check is electric battery which has no mention of 'bobbin' or 'spiral' anywhere. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 03:45, 16 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Weak delete. The terms refer to the two main types of construction (not size) of, specifically, Li-SOCl2 (Lithium Thionyl Chloride) cells (see, for example, this page). We do not have an article specifically on Li-SOCl2 cells; they just have an entry on the list at Lithium metal battery, which does not discuss their construction. The two redirects in question don't quite fit into Criterion 10 ("could be plausibly expanded into an article") - their ideal target would be an expanded Lithium thionyl-chloride article that discusses the cell's construction - but I still think deletion is the most appropriate solution unless that article is created. That being said, Lithium metal battery is the best target article we have at the moment. Tevildo (talk) 08:22, 16 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I feel like this would more naturally point to Template:Contentious topics, a dab page for the various contentious related templates. We are trying to make it more clear that {{controversial}} is for articles which are controversial but not within a formal WP:CTOP, and this redirect only aids that confusion. There are three transclusions of this redirect; bypassing those uses should not be a barrier to retargetting to Template:Contentious topics. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they)03:59, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Dammit you're right, I used the wrong keyboard combination. I wanted to support the redirect, the other nominations confused me. FaviFake (talk) 16:16, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
ISO Records is the name of a company which is mentioned in the labels section of Bowie's infobox. Why I created this redirect in 2022, I couldn't tell you (three years time'll do that), but the connection is clear. Zero opinion on whether this keeps, it was only mentioned in the infobox when I made it and isn't particularly useful in terms of available information. ISO standards like the one you mentioned are covered by ISO directing to the International Organization for Standardization (and I'm not even sure that's a valid article anyway given the lack of sourcing, but that's a whole other discussion), so I don't see the concern there. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 04:12, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Retarget to the article and tag as per Paradoctor; even though the author advocates for deletion, the proposed article that supposedly 'replaces' the redirect IS at a different title from the redirect. It'd only help to keep the redirect around and point it to the new target.That said, @Pppery What's this about salt evasion?? 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 17:09, 17 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Lunamann: Because new and anonymous users would keep recreating the article at a new title once the article was move to the draftspace, but they'd do so by publishing the same draft with the same issues. This time, however, a more competent editor published a different version of the article, hence it exists at American Communist Party (2024). Yue🌙07:37, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It is common for factions and split parties to have the leader's name in brackets, not as a Wikipedia disambiguator. In this case, the only usage of this bracketed term appear to be Wikipedia-related, and this was a temporary title, per creator's vote, because American Communist Party was protected from July 2024. Duplicates such as Draft:American Communist Party, Draft:American Communist Party (2024) and Draft:American Communist Party(2024) are still not accepted to mainspace though. Agree with Yue that this is a non-plausible disambiguation. The party had three founders, and favouring one because it helped as a salt-evasion title, makes this a poor title. Delete, and the pre-BLAR content needn't be kept as it was duplicate, and the American Communist Party (2024) article evolved separately after a lot of forking and merging. Jay 💬05:25, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Apocryphal is simply an adjective meaning likely untrue. It's a completely different concept from books that were rejected from the Bible Oiyarbepsy (talk) 19:27, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The first definition of the word at wikt:apocryphal is "(Christianity) Of, or pertaining to, the Apocrypha." I don't understand the reasoning behind the suggestion to retarget this to Apocrypha (disambiguation), because the term doesn't directly apply to the items listed there. - Eureka Lott18:41, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Retarget to Apocrypha (disambiguation) as per Chrisahn and Lenticel. If 'apocryphal' is 'pertaining to apocrypha', then that could be a number of different things, all of which are listed at this disambig. It also has a Wiktionary hatnote to Apocrypha, from where one can easily get to Apocryphal. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 18:47, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'd honestly say no, in this case it's NOT the same primary topic. Using the second/third definitions listed on Wiktionary (which... admittedly seem to be the same definition repeated twice, to my brain???) is common enough, and discussion of the actual Apocrypha is rare enough, that I'm fairly certain it's caused the primary topic for the adjective to shift. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 02:50, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Refine/Keep per Godsy as the target now contains a discussion of the adjective form, unlike the dab page which concerns only things called "Apocrypha". Rusalkii (talk) 20:03, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Moral Delete. Sorry everyone, but the mention at the proposed target is unsourced, and violates WP:NOTDICT even if it were, and I'm not sure how useful the adjectival form of the redirect is to ...anywhere, really. But if no one has the fortitude to delete it, I'd say just keep it to match the noun form. If there's a primary topic for that, then it should be for the adjective too, since nothing at the dab page has any particular affinity to it. 35.139.154.158 (talk) 18:53, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Lean delete. The use in articles needs major cleanup if this is to be kept. I agree that Apocrypha is probably the primary topic among WP articles, if there is one, but use in WP articles, and other writing, is frequently of the extended meaning "likely false story". This meaning is sort of explained at Apocrypha but the article emphasizes the biblical meaning and other written, religious canons. I looked at the first 10 uses in article space and ended up removing 6 instances. Some of these were borderline and most violated MOS:NOFORCELINK. This behavior is difficult to control but should not be facilitated. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk01:27, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment. My gut says this should be an article. Both of the previous dab entries were bad: "Computer music" is about something more specific. "Sound card" is about a piece of hardware that computers use to emit an audio signal, but there's far more to computer audio on the software side. The new target, "Digital audio", is also bad. It's more about the low-level signal aspect of how digital audio is represented and processed, etc. Maybe a case of WP:RETURNTORED? 35.139.154.158 (talk) 19:53, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Weak restore. I agree with the nom that the dab page was better than the redirect, it was helpful for readers even though it wasn't a good dab page according to the rigid style rules for such pages - it's exactly the sort of page (plausible search term for multiple topics that aren't actually this) that the still-born navpages concept was intended to be, maybe calling it a set index would prevent future good-faith attempts to fix what isn't broken? I do agree with the IP that not everything was covered but expanding the page to include them (MIDI and speech synthesis maybe should be there too) is I think preferable to deletion. 01:15, 25 July 2025 (UTC)— Preceding unsigned comment added by Thryduulf (talk • contribs)
Restore as a better option than redirect. If there is disagreement, it can be taken to AfD. I'm not much for Computer music, but Digital audio should be added to the dab. Jay 💬09:52, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: I had originally closed this to "restore", but then I reread the comment by the IP, and realized that their "WP:RETURNTORED" suggestion may not be compatible with the page being restored as a disambiguation page (which is what is in the edit history) rather than an article. So ... relisting in hopes of clarifying things. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Steel1943 (talk) 19:31, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
delete. i don't think it'd be all that useful for dab material, as it's either too vague (definitions of "computer" and "audio" vary too much) or too... not exclusive to computers (midi isn't exclusive to computers, sound cards technically aren't exclusive to computers, computer music isn't the only form of audio that exists or exclusive to computers, etc.). i also couldn't name any fitting entries for a dab or targets for a redirect for the same reasons if results are needed, i got a little bit of everything (all of the time), and it was all way too vague to get anything out of, almost like audio itself is too general a concept for this kind of stuff consarn(grave)(obituary)18:20, 12 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Delete There are no reliable sources that will actually claim there was a genocide of Turks happening for over a century. This is fringe historical negationism, generally only claimed by deniers of the Armenian/Greek/Assyrian genocides. Claiming that Turks were the real victims of genocide is a form of Armenian/Greek/Assyrian genocide denial (see Iğdır Genocide Memorial and Museum), as thus doesn't belong on Wikipedia. Therefore, these titles are not appropriate, as they were titled by a Wikipedia user last month, not by credible historians. KhndzorUtogh (talk) 05:59, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
After the Turkish genocide AFD, it was recreated as a redirect, and remained as such for 2 years, having been edited by 7 editors with 4 different targets. It was deleted (I would say incorrectly) by the AfD closer Sandstein as a G4. Another redirect Turkey genocide created in 2017 still stands. Jay 💬05:07, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Genocide_of_Turkish_people is specific and cannot be retargeted to the massacre dab which is for by and of Turks. From the List_of_massacres_of_Turkish_ people, only the Persecution_of_Muslims_during_the_Ottoman_contraction (the current target) includes genocide, so that can be a keep.
From the List_of_massacres_in_Turkey, it is mostly the WW1 ones perpetrated by the Young Turks that are seen as genocide (Greek, Assyrian, Armenian, Yazidi). So overall, the massacre dab is too broad a target for any Turkish genocide redirects, and a Turkish genocide can be made a dab similar to the massacre dab (of and by). Turkey_genocide (not bundled here) can be retargeted to the new dab.
On the timestamped redirects, the period of 1820-1920 is mentioned by multiple sources and the infobox of the current target, so I'm Ok with that timestamp. Not so much with 19th–20th century, because WW1 that comes under 20th century, makes the title vague, and it may be deleted. Jay 💬14:38, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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I'm open to keeping the status quo, redirecting to Clovis (given name), or other alternatives. I was at Luigi, followed the link to Chlodwig and was "astonished" to read the opening line of Louis (given name) which contains the very similar name Chlodowig which is a piped link to Clovis (given name), and wondered why these don't point to the same place. Louis may, indeed, be the better target but it's not obvious to me. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk 20:56, 5 July 2025 (UTC) EDIT: I have specified a preference below. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk15:43, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, or Retarget to Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst. There is absolutely no reason to have redirects created from every ancient form of every given name; that's just absurd. That's why we have the "Search" function (in addition to the "Go" function) in the search field, to locate all instances of the term, not just the one Neelix happened to turn his obsessive and nonsensical brain to. Softlavender (talk) 22:06, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
My hesitation is that it is used in two articles where it is linked with reference to the name, and none in reference to this or any other individual named Chlodwig. A Google search turns up a variety of references, including to the fellow you linked and to Clovis I aka, apparently, Chlodwig. I take your point about not creating redirects for every variant of a name that has ever been attested, but where a redirect is used in article space in this way, I'm inclined to keep or redirect to a more appropriate given name, but not retarget to a specific individual that no editor has linked mononymously this way. A DAB page would be better than this. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk23:50, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or redirect to Clovis I, as the two most likely targets. A number of Frankish royal names have no standardized spelling, but are found in numerous forms, and this is one of them. It needs to redirect either to Louis or possibly to Clovis, as they are the same name. Presumably the link at Louis goes to "Clovis (given name)" because otherwise it would be a recursive link and uninformative; the same word can certainly link to different places depending on context, and in that case anyone clicking on it would be looking for historical information. Without that distinction, "Louis" makes as much sense—perhaps more, because the redirect is a spelling variation. Strongly oppose redirecting to "Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst", as an extremely improbable search target for the bare name. Most English speakers will be familiar with the name "Louis", many with Clovis I, very few with this German prince. That redirect would certainly astonish many readers. P Aculeius (talk) 16:54, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
NOTE: Chlodwig is not mentioned anywhere prominently or in bold in Clovis I. (It's buried deep in the body text and one has to use Control+F to even find it.) Therefore, I struggle to understand why that article is being promoted as a superior retarget. Softlavender (talk) 21:08, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Because most uses of it (under any spelling) encountered by readers are likely to be references to the Frankish king. Though there were other notable persons—including notable Franks—by this name, as well as partial title matches (such as the above-mentioned German noble, and the Clovis culture of North America and their characteristic spearheads), Clovis I sweeps the field among persons whose names are likely to be rendered simply as "Clodowig", "Chlodowig" "Clodwig", "Chlodwig", etc. P Aculeius (talk) 01:35, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
A condition for redirects is that the term be featured prominently, preferably in bold, in the target article, so there is no puzzlement from the reader as to why they ended up on that page when they were searching for something entirely and noticeably different. Since Clovis I still fails in that regard, I continue to oppose redirecting to that article. Softlavender (talk) 01:54, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
There's no such condition. Many thousands of morphological variants lead to the topics they're variants of without being "featured prominently" in the articles they target. In fact it would be absurd if persons (or things) whose names were spelled, though infrequently, in numerous ways had to feature each variation "prominently, preferably in bold". It's more common to have a subsection listing variant names, or simply to place a footnote in the lead. P Aculeius (talk) 13:32, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
P, in my opinion you don't sound very familiar with redirects or the conditions and rationales involved. "Chlodwig" or some variation of it would need to be mentioned in the lead, preferably the lead sentence, for the redirect to make sense to anyone typing in the term and clicking on what comes up. Generally people who type in a term are looking for someone by that very name, hence Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst. Most people can't remember the tongue-twisting rest of the name and so would simply type in "Chlodwig".
"Chlodwig" and "Clovis" are not even spelling variants of each other, and differ too much to be understood by an unexplained redirect. If there are still people who want "Clovis" to be considered as a target, then in my opinion the only solution is Chlodwig (disambiguation), which would, quite obviously, list Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (and any other wiki titles with "Chlodwig" in them) first, and could then list or mention Clovis and/or various Clovises. Softlavender (talk) 20:37, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed, "Chlodwig" even shows up in some dictionaries defined as Clovis I.[26][27] I am leaning towards Clovis (given name) as the best redirect. This is consistent with the two uses in articles currently, pointing to the origin of other names, and would lead readers to Clovis I and all the other Chlodwigs and Clovises. Clovis I could be mentioned in the lead or otherwise made more prominent there if there is concern that enough readers are looking for this individual (he is, of course, listed already). A new Chlodwig (disambiguation)Chlodwig DAB page (not that anyone has suggested this) page seemsmay be extraneous and would mostly point to and duplicate entries from Clovis (given name). WikiNav[28][29] shows a fair bit of traffic between Clovis (given name), Louis (given name), and the related names. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk03:19, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Retarget to Clovis (given name)or DAB. The given name article already contains the etymology and lists individuals called "Chlodwig". Readers clicking Chlodwig from one of the other given name articles or entering the search term after seeing the name in reference to Clovis I will be confused and potentially mislead if they land at the article for the relatively obscure German prince. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk15:43, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Clovis I is the only individual who is routinely attested as "Chlodwig" mononymously in reliable sources, including standard dictionaries[30][31][32] and the reference work I cited on the draft DAB. It's a disservice to readers to obscure this. I would prefer to lead with something like "Chlodwig is the German name for Clovis I, first king of the Franks…" and then list the two lesser-known nobles and Clovis (given name), but I won't die on that hill. Perhaps listing "Other people named Clovis (given name)" as the last bullet and reworking the opening sentence would be better. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk19:03, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Disambiguate. Compare de:Chlodwig. The overlap between Clovis, Chlodwig, Louis, Lewis, Ludwig, Ludovicus drives me nuts but the solution is a project-wide shift in how we handle given names and that is not on the table here. Srnec (talk) 22:58, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
A reader searching for "Chlodwig" (I presume this is already a small population) would likely be looking for someone with that name or information about that name. I find it unlikely someone would search Wikipedia using that name and expect or hope to end up at a page that disambiguates the name "Clovis". In any event, the first sentence of Chlodwig links directly to Clovis (given name). If we were to go your route, it should be at Chlodwig (given name). voorts (talk/contributions) 15:07, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I don't see a dab page. I see that you have edited the redirect page. I have removed a statement from it that did not match the citation. Softlavender (talk) 02:20, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No, not if the only persons listed are two obscure nineteenth-century aristocrats. Since this is a mere spelling variation of Chlodowig, Hluodwig, etc. it should probably list other Frankish kings or nobles who might be found under this spelling (no matter which spelling is the most frequent), or redirect to A) the most important article under any of them (Clovis I) or B) whichever spelling is used as a disambiguation page for the majority of them (such as "Clovis (given name)" or "Louis (given name)"). Otherwise we have a fractured disambiguation tree where each spelling variation is a separate list, disambiguation page, or redirect, even though there is no sharp distinction between them, and readers might use any of the spellings to search for various persons. The present version misleadingly suggests that the said nineteenth century aristocrats are the only notable persons who might be searched for under this spelling. P Aculeius (talk) 11:44, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
They are all spelling variations of the same name. Presumably any notable examples (or at least any with articles about them already written) are under some other spelling, and redirects from various spellings would not be indexed in a disambiguation page, though they might be listed in an article about the name. That does not mean that people will not search under those spellings.
A similar example might be illustrative: the Merovingian dynasty (to which Clovis and multiple of his namesakes belonged) is named after a king whose name is variously given in Frankish, Latin, French, and English sources as Merovech, Meroveus, Merovaeus, Merovée, Merewig, etc. However, though he bequeathed his name to the dynasty, he was not an important king, almost nothing is recorded about him, and so his name did not survive into modern times—at least not to a significant degree. Consequently there is no telling what form he will appear under in any given source. Only one spelling will be listed in a disambiguation page, and per DAB guidelines it will be the spelling used in the title of the article about him. But all of the other forms will be redirects to that article.
If the result of this discussion is that "Chlodwig" redirects to a disambiguation page, then the lead paragraph should probably mention as many spellings as possible, and only major groups (such as "persons named Louis") would be split off into their own pages (but with those pages still linked here), with all other notable persons listed irrespective of which spelling is used. P Aculeius (talk) 19:29, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Anthroponymize, with thanks to the efforts of Voorts and Myceteae for creating/promoting the Anthroponymy page. If this is a variant of other names, that should be also be explained there. --Tavix(talk)17:05, 12 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks @Tavix for reframing the suggestion; I have been thinking along similar lines. We've been calling this a DAB page but I agree the proposal has morphed into a given name article at this point (some may still favor a strict DAB page). The sticking points for some editors seems to be the degree of completeness required to support publishing Chlodwig. Relevant content from Clovis (given name) and Louis (given name) could be copied, excerpted, or otherwise duplicated (with attribution). I understand the desire for completeness and of course accuracy but pushing out some version of a Chlodwig page will permit and invite further improvement, such as the addition of as-yet-unidentified Hluodwigs. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk18:28, 12 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Delete all or refine to § Clinical significance and tag as {{R with possibilities}}. The main article about each body part is far too imprecise for these 'diseases' redirects. These may have article potential but should probably be named in the singular ('X disease') or 'Diseases of [the] X'. There are many similar articles, for example Heart disease which redirects to Cardiovascular disease. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk22:58, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:REDYES and because the current redirect is misleading since not all uterine tumors are cancerous, as pointed out by the nom. I looked at the use in articles and all the sources I could locate used 'tumors' and not 'cancer'. Note that the singular uterine tumor does not exist and would be the more appropriate title, if this article is ever created. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk20:39, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Retarget to Wikipedia:Contentious topics per L235, or dabify as a distant second choice. I'll add that it is really annoying that {{ct}} points to {{contentious topics}}, but {{ctop}} points to an unrelated page ({{collapse top}}). Simplifying that confusion so editors need not remember which abbreviation works for which namespace would be a worthwhile improvement, even disregarding Kevin's good points above. A hatnote would deal with confusion from retargetting, and we should think about the long term benefit of Wikipedia. (I am a clerk for ArbCom, but I am supporting this in my capacity as an editor.) HouseBlaster (talk • he/they)19:03, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Retarget per nom, who convincingly demonstrated how CT is already being used as a shortcut for Contentious Topics and how it's a much more prominent destination over citation templates. --Tavix(talk)14:47, 26 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Disambiguate per Duckmather; several terms come from "Endia", most notably the derogatory slang. Even if it's derogatory, non-neutral redirects are allowed by Wikipedia, there's a whole category for them. 𝔅𝔦𝔰-𝔖𝔢𝔯𝔧𝔢𝔱𝔞?15:41, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Bis-Serjetà?: I understand the disamb. But with rds, the thing should be substantiated in sources and covered at the target. Both of which don't happen here. For instance Amerikkka, another deliberately spelled slang, does not rd to the country article but to a related topic. Gotitbro (talk) 09:48, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Agree with you completely. This shouldn't be redirected as per nom (observed in other similar country pages) and deleted asap. ACMehta (talk) 20:25, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
As an aside, ATD talks about article content, and it doesn't apply to redirects, which don't enjoy the same level of protection as articles. There's no substantive history to preserve here, so nothing is really lost in the deletion. If you think disambiguation is the best way to go, that's fine, but it shouldn't really be done as some sort of middle-ground, ATD thing. 35.139.154.158 (talk) 14:53, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
That might be your opinion but it's not what WP:ATD actually says. It says If editing can address all relevant reasons for deletion, this should be done rather than deleting the page (emphasis mine). It doesn't single out articles. And for the record, yes, I think disambiguating is obviously superior to deleting here. Warudo (talk) 18:04, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Redirects for first names should generally be avoided unless that person is specifically well known by their first name only. I'm also dubious as to the usefulness of pointing to "India" here. A retarget to ENDIA is probably okay, but also unnecessary, since the search box will automatically redirect to an article that only differs by casing. 35.139.154.158 (talk) 14:30, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to ENDIA. Doesn't seem a plausible spelling mistake for the target. A no-caps version of an allcaps title (remember, Endia is the same as endia) is always reasonable. Redirecting to a person's first name doesn't seem particularly helpful, but disambiguating would be far better than deleting. Nyttend (talk) 21:48, 9 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete disam makes zero sense because it would have only two pages. Redirect to a first name is undue and to ENDIA is redundant since both the all caps and nocaps already exist. UnpetitproleX (talk) 10:35, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Do not delete, do not keep. At least two potential targets (ENDIA & Endia Beal) have been identified during the course of this discussion, leaving a "delete" result making no sense at all. Also, the current target is clearly a bad target for this since it doesn't seem to be a likely misspelling, especially given there are targets in existence that are known by this exact spelling. Steel1943 (talk) 03:26, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Honestly I personally do not agree the existence of this redirect category implies we should always have given names point to people when we only have one biography with a given given name. It will very often not be what a reader is looking for, especially for less-known biographies which most are. 1234qwer1234qwer412:33, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Given that being a likely typo is a very common argument in favour of keeping redirects, and often a reason why a redirect nominated here is kept, I interpret their comment as a clear recommendation this redirect be kept. Regardless, making their opinion explicit certainly wouldn't harm. Thryduulf (talk) 01:48, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - I can't see why this would be needed. Even the version without the typo seems superfluous. Both "Republic of China" and "Taiwan" already take you to the relevant page. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 14:37, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
seemingly german for "piano harmonica"... so a melodica? that can't be right, as results that coincidentally mash those two together seem to just be talking about harmonicas, though one seems to have used it as a synonym for "accordion"... or at least it might be doing that. results are extremely unclear, and the term isn't mentioned anywhere on wikipedia, so i have no actual idea what this is supposed to be consarn(grave)(obituary)12:06, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. This is apparently one of several German words for accordion.[34][35] The instrument was invented in Germany, popularized in Germany and Austria, and is still associated with Germanic music styles (though not exclusively). That's enough 'cultural affinity' for me. The Rcat should be updated to {{R from alternate language|de|en}}. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk14:28, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep (as creator). I created this redirect since it was an entry in Oxford Music Online indexed on Wikipedia:Music encyclopedia topics/26 (see 2021 in the history for when it was removed as completed), and we try to have all of those keywords go somewhere. Foreign language names of musical instruments are typically indexed in music encyclopedias since they can appear in scores and so forth. Even without access you can see the term listed in the title of the "Accordion" article at [36]. Of course, it would be better if the term did appear in the Wikipedia article. The name is now obsolete, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be included since someone could find it in historical sources. Rigadoun (talk)15:05, 26 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Poking around the notes and references in Accordion, there is some suggestion that aeoline[37] or Aeolian[38] were early names for the instrument, or early forms of the instrument. I found sources online that back this up, specifically for aeoline.[39][40][41] I can't speak for the sources' reliability. But this is apparently not the main meaning today.[42][43][44] I lean 'delete' but it's possible there is a suitable target or that aeoline could be described at Accordion#History. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk15:00, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Icelandic, but Keep French and Dutch - due to Austria also being a member of the European Union, and the EU having 24 official languages, French and Dutch being in those, it means that the official names of Austria in those languages do have official name status, so should be kept per WP:FORRED exception for official names. page views also support that they are used as search terms often enough to be valuable. Raladic (talk) 14:15, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The European Union has jurisdiction over Austria and its other member states at a constitutional level so it’s a little different from the United Nations. The European Union for all intents and purposes is really one supra-national “state” and acts as such with regards to all areas that the countries sign in the treaties of joining the European Union, which is why the European Union also has the various institutions such as a legislative body. Raladic (talk) 15:58, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Jurisdiction is not the criterion we use. Instead we delete redirects that point to articles not directly related to that language or a culture associated with that language. Austria has no special connection to the French language/culture nor to that of the Netherlands just because it is a fellow EU member. It's not like you can use French in Austria and expect to be understood by default. In general, official languages of the European Union are not official languages of the member states the same way official languages of the UN are not official languages of its member states. Warudo (talk) 16:11, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I had only brought up the EU link as I figured that would be simple enough, but fair enough let me expand: That's where it gets tricky, the Jurisdiction of the European Union is that of a community, which does have a European Culture and the European principle of multilinguality is enshrined and embraced by members of the European Union.
Ignoring the history of relations by European countries also ignores facts that the European culture and its interconnectedness over the centuries, including linguistically.
And then we get to the Congress of Vienna, which established some of the modern countries of Europe following Napoleon's fall, resulting in the establishment of Germany.
Or the post World War II resulting Allied occupation of Austria (Between the French, U.S., Soviet and British forces) when Austria was sub-divided into four parts (history tends to talk more about the east/west Germany divide) and English, French and Russian were common language for 10 years in the respective sub-divisions of Austria and Vienna respectively (Vienna was split slightly different by the Allied Control Council), which had a lot of intermingling of culture in the more "recent" history of Austria. Austrian German has a lot of loanwords from French that are used in day to day interactions, whether reading the Feuilleton in a newspaper, drinking a Wiener Melange and so forth.
Which is also why French is the most common second language after English (which itself isn't a minority language in Austria as it's spoken by 3/4 of the population) in Austria and is spoken by over 10% of the population.
Then we get to food and drink, which is even more of a giant mixing pot linguistically across Europe. The world-famous French croissant has its origin in the Austrian Kipferl, following an Austrian baker opening a Viennese bakery in France. The linguistic English term for fine pastry is Viennoiserie (a French loanword term for "Viennese pastry"), named after the bakery's origin from Vienna. Ironically the group of pastries itself it also very commonly nowadays just lumped in with the term Danish pastry, which, surprise, was another baker from Austria who brought Viennoiserie to Denmark and ironically, the Danish language term is wienerbrød (Vienna bread). Then on to Viennese coffee house culture which spread throughout Europe and the western world, and that ironically the most common type of coffee ordered in Austria has the Austro-French name Wiener Melange (Viennese mix, w:fr:Café viennois) and is the precursor to the Italian Cappuchino.
Long story short, the French culture and language is most certainly extremely intermingled in Austrian culture. So are the Italian and many others.
Not mentioned at target; there is Omuma town (which should potentially be moved to Omuma) as an alternative target for the last one, but the first two do not seem to be described anywhere. The first one used to be a one-sentence stub but was subsequently redirected. 1234qwer1234qwer403:12, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Restore the pre-BLAR content without prejudice to AfD. It contained multiple assertions of importance (split from a notable organisation, participated in multiple notable groupings, stood in multiple elections) so it isn't speedy deletable. I'm not sure it's notable, but if sources exist they will almost certainly be in Dutch (or possibly French) and given this originated in the early 1990s are not guaranteed to be easily accessible on Google. As such a more thorough investigation by someone who knows the best places to find sources meeting that description is required here. Thryduulf (talk) 14:43, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. My search results match Shhnotsoloud's but it's worth pointing out that Google refused to distinguish between "A-Stan", "A stan", "-stan" and "Stan" so all my results were initially about Stan (fan), then when I refined it about -stan or the central-Asian countries so named. As such I'll be more than willing to change my !vote if someone does manage to find some actual use. Thryduulf (talk) 14:49, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I searched "A-stan" and "Kabul" (I figured including Kabul as a search term would help garner more actual results), and I found these articles, however they're all mostly from 15 years ago:
Then, I searched "A stan" and "Taliban" (I included Taliban in my search for the same reason as I included Kabul as a search term) and found these articles:
In conclusion, yes "A-Stan" or some form of it was used even in what we would consider reliable sources (like Politico and Wired)... 15 years ago. I'm not sure of the relevance of it now or whether its prevalence 15 years ago warrants keeping it as a redirect now, though. Pineways (talk) 23:10, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Three of Pineways's sources use A'stan, not A-stan and two use it only in headlines but not running text. I checked 5 Wired articles and it's only used as a tag there, not in the article bodies. 4–5 source is slim to begin with and what they actually show is different punctuation than the redirect uses, one instance of an in-house usage, and a few different publications happening to use the same one-off, ad hoc abbreviation for effect. There's no evidence that this is consistently used anywhere. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk02:57, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
2+ incorrect letters = implausible to expect a redirect to exist. Recently created, "Gppgpl" would not be a good redirect for Googol either. There is 0% chance for a redirect to exist for exceedingly sloppy searches; people should not/do not expect that they can swap out all their "o"s for "p"s as if there is no difference. 1 letter off might be feasible, (like "googke") but multiple is not imo; even if it is the same letter, that is twice as long to notice the multiple errors being made. Utopes(talk / cont)05:59, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
2025 is fairly recent in my perview. R3 indicates 4 months at the upper bound, this is 5 months old. I would still call anything from 2025 "recently created" but it might not meet the recently created definition of r3. Utopes(talk / cont)06:32, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete implausible typo that is just outside the bounds for R3 speedy deletion. Consider WP:SNOW close if this gets a good number of 'delete' !votes before the 7 days is up. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk15:09, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Dwlwtw. Implausible, being a letter at the start of the word, and would likely be fixed by the automatic correction of MediaWiki's search engine (at least after thesethreefixes), also in longer search terms containing this typo. 1234qwer1234qwer401:50, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Implausible to type in L and I while searching for this three letter article. Recently created, Google searching for this term gives only information related to "Texas Lawyers Insurance Exchange" (No such article, but the search results are obscured as people are taken to the page for "The" instead when trying to find information). One letter off of Tie, TLI, Lie as well. With short terms such as this, this could likely refer to several different options, so assuming targets of very-short errors is not usually helpful. Utopes(talk / cont)05:36, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The page for "the" does not discuss "Tlie" as a common OCR error, so it is unclear why this error has precedence over the many other types of errors, or the search that isn't an error (looking for information on TLIE). However, this has inspired me to create a new template/redirect category as a subset of Template:R from error. Template:R from OCR error can be used to specify that an error is an OCR one, as a way to partially diffuse the massive category of 60k redirs from misspellings. Whether or not OCR errors have a higher priority than any other type of error, remains to be seen, but this should be a good way to keep track of what type of error is being made.Utopes(talk / cont)06:19, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Not a difficult word to spell. Recently created, we never needed this. WP:XY with Bulic with which it is closer in construction, as the entire term of "Bulic" is found in this search, plus an extra keypress. With short & phonetic words such as this, typo redirs are not needed. Utopes(talk / cont)05:32, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Ossetia is actually a region which straddles both Georgia and Russia, being divided into North Ossetia (Russia) and South Ossetia (de jure Georgia). only South Ossetia seeks separation, and Russia & Georgia have quite different policies on LGBTQ issues. due to this complication, we may be better off deleting this redirect as there is no clear useful target. ... sawyer * any/all * talk07:59, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as the topic is not discussed at the target and per sawyer and the article at least two countries lay claim to (parts of) the region. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk15:22, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
In Vitrio (talk·contribs) took this redirect to AfD, but there is no current non-redirect history for this page (it was the original title for the itself-since-redirected Tyrannus (comics)Tyrannus (comics), which is probably why this redirect points to the "T" list, but the current all-redirect history here started with a 2006 page move). Their explanation follows:
Nothing links to it, and the redirect takes to a page which does not mention the name Romulus Augustus. Seems not just pointless but confusing as it interferes with the genuine Romulus Augustulus. — User:In Vitrio09:12, 7 August 2025 (UTC)
In which case it should be Romulus Augustulus. And that would confuse with the genuine article even more. Maybe it should be a disambig on the Romulus Augustulus page alone. In Vitrio (talk) 17:40, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per In Vitrio the original nom. Do not move one redirect as another redirect. No opinion on creating a Romulus Augustulus (comics) redirect as there is no mention at Tyrannus. Jay 💬15:51, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I can go ahead and add the information about Romulus Augustulus as the true identity of Tyrannus to that list entry, so long as doing so is still proper even with this discussion ongoing. Red Shogun412 (talk • contribs) 19:04, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Another thought, we could preserve this redirect as a good search term, given the close naming association between "Romulus Augustus" and "Romulus Augustulus" for both the comics character and the historical figure the character's based on. I can see the former serving as an avoided double redirect if kept at all, while the latter can be a newly created redirect. Red Shogun412 (talk • contribs) 19:09, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, ambiguous. Google largely associates these with red bananas but none of the sources on the first few pages were reliable. "Purple Bananas" (capitalized, plural) is the name of a book and an app. Several companies and a weed strain are named "purple banana" or "Purple Banana" and as mentioned in the prior RfD, the term is used in a Prince song. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk15:35, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
redirect to Areal feature. First of all, welcome to Wikipedia! Secondly, I understand and support your wish to be cautious and check in here with other users before making a bold edit on your own like changing it back unilaterally; bravo. That said, I probably would have just changed it back. Note that if you choose to follow a bold path in a similar situation in the future and someone undoes your edit, then stop there and bring it here (like you just did), rather than get in an edit war. See WP:BRD: one revert is okay, but not two. Again, welcome! Mathglot (talk) 05:43, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Only two results on google for this non-standard AA notation. Not mentioned in the target page, or the Wikidata entry (which includes many possible nomenclatures). I don’t think this is a plausible search term. Zzz plant (talk) 01:03, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as an unambiguous structural molecular formula for the compound. Many compounds have similar structural formulas like this, including a majority of the protein-forming amino acids. Perhaps not useful as a search term, but redirects serve other purposes, such as internal and external links. Mdewman6 (talk) 21:45, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
All redirects beginning with the characters "NH2CH" were created a few months ago by this redirect's creator except the one for glycine. I'm not in favour of indiscriminately creating redirects for every reasonable representation of a structure. Redirects shouldn't be a space to dodge around WP:NOTDATABASE. If these were older or made independently by a collection of editors I'd let it pass, but, as is, they're better off deleted unless endorsed more broadly. As for linking, none of the "NH2CH"-prefixed redirects are used as links, so I find that implausible. I don't know how to evaluate external links, but I would guess that they're too new to have any real use outside of WP. That said, I do agree with Myceteae in the prev. discussion that these are reasonable searches for smaller compounds. I think CH3COOH (created 2004) and CH3COCOOH (created 2010) are good examples. Note that acetate is linked only once and pyruvate is not linked in mainspace. ⇌Synpath15:25, 16 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, appears to be an accurate name based on the contents of the article, unambiguous. I don't think WP:NOTDATABASE is applicable; chemicals as an entire topic are all very commonly searched for by formula as another way to refer to the chemical, this one seems harmless. I wouldn't mind seeing different notations as redirects as well, as long as the title is accurate. Utopes(talk / cont)04:14, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
HOC6H4CH2CH(NH2)COOH is another accurate formula for tyrosine that has existed as a redirect since 2013. Redirects are cheap, and these are both good examples of that. Formulas can be written in alternate ways, and the chembox at the target confirms the accuracy of these searches. Utopes(talk / cont)04:21, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I agree with Synpath's comments here that these unlikely search terms that amount to a WP:NOTDATABASE workaround. I second Synpath's comment in the methionine RfD that these are more "trivia" than useful. To reiterate and expand on my previous comment, chemical formula redirects are (more likely to be) useful when the notation is simple and the molecule is (very) small. H2O is familiar to the general public. Chemists, students, healthcare workers, and many non-specialists with passing familiarity can glance at CH3COOH or CH4 or EtOH or NH3 and immediately recognize them. These short formulas and abbreviations are commonly used in running text to 'name' these molecules, increasing the likelihood that they will be encountered by readers without the knowledge to parse them. NH2CH(CH2C6H4OH)COOH and similar are unlikely to be encountered except when referencing a particular way to write the chemical formula. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk16:17, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Also, internal links of this sort should be avoided in article space. Molecules should be named, and further defined/described where appropriate, in running text in a general audience encyclopedia. Readers should not be expected to parse NH2CH(CH2C6H4OH)COOH nor click a link to find out what it means. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk22:26, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
For the time being, I've changed the redirect to reflect the change in that section's title. (By no means am I trying to interfere with this discussion though) UppercutPawnch (talk) 08:07, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It appears that both have been equally reliably sourced, except they both use completely different reliable sources (with the exception of one shared). I've since added all secondary sources on the person to each article. UppercutPawnch (talk) 08:11, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep second redirect, Retarget first. Subject's notability primarily comes from a WP:BLP1E involving a lawsuit that is only covered in the child safety article for how it relates to his activism, redirecting to his section under Roblox Corporation#Legal disputes as is with the second redirect is more on-topic for his sources. It appears that someone changed the first redirect without changing the second one as the child safety article and should be reverted. UppercutPawnch (talk) 08:28, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep without prejudice to adding content about the park. This is a plausible search term for the current target from those who don't know the intricacies of Wikipedia's title conventions. Thryduulf (talk) 10:34, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep without prejudice to adding content about the park. This is a plausible search term for the housing development discussed at the target. Thryduulf (talk) 10:35, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Revert to Oiketerion. That article contains the redirect link; the wikilink can be removed or edited so as not to point back to itself, assuming this gets reverted. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk22:27, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
only mentioned in passing in the target as one of the things that company bought (and is awfully vague about what it actually is). results do confirm that it exists, but show that the primary topic is instead a web browser for the dreamcast (funny story, that), which is mentioned here (if also in passing). this is where things get weird though. normally i'd vote to retarget to dreamcast online functionality as the primary topic, but i'll actually vote to return to red... on both ends, as i've found seemingly reliable material for both planetwebs, which i'll be compiling in a while consarn(grave)(obituary)20:48, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
...actually, i'll tell the story first. planetweb (the browser, not the indeterminate business company) actually had a planned port for the gamecube of all things. however, that never left the demo phase, and ran like yandere simulator on a game boy. also, when i said it "never left the demo phase", i actually meant it "never left the being scraps of html jank with a fake cursor function and honest to gork (or mork) unused, even jankier content phase" consarn(grave)(obituary)20:58, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
alright, it's late saturday, i'm done being chronically distracted, let's dump some of them result things
the corporate slurry planetweb thing turned out to be a dead end of sorts, as it turns out a lot of people had dibs on that name, so forget it
as for the browser ones, forgive the heresy i will commit, but i must use... google...
Delete Well, being a big Avalanches is finally helpful! The connection is that "Continue Sharing Yo Rice" by Mighty Sheller is sampled in the Avalanches' "Live at Cornerstone" (rather fantastic) mix and features rather prominently it. It is incorrectly called "Sharin Yo Rice", but regardless there is no mention at the target and no suitable target on wikipedia. Casablanca 🪨(T)23:07, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Not mentioned in the target article, and I've never heard a skull referred to by this phrase. It seems to me that it could equally apply to an entire decapitated head. I would retarget this to the disambiguation page Death's head, and add any other potential meanings there. BD2412T20:15, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
"Pyrimidinecarboxylic acid" is not a synonym for orotic acid and it is not mentioned in the target article. The PubChem database, for example, lists 155 synonyms but not "pyrimidinecarboxylic acid". At best, it is a partial match to systematic chemical names such as 1,2,3,6-tetrahydro-2,6-dioxo-4-pyrimidinecarboxylic acid. The one incoming link to this redirect is for a meaning entirely distinct from orotic acid. This redirect is therefore more likely to cause confusion than to be useful. Marbletan (talk) 19:13, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I have added an explanation of the term to the page as suggested. If the consensus is to move the redirect, would be happy for it to be moved to the new redirect page. Kiwichris (talk) 04:56, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: There are a variety of targets proposed, so I think having more participants would help establish a clear consensus. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Left guide (talk) 18:51, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. "Yookay" is just a phonetics rendering of "UK", and if anywhere should redirect there, but that seems pretty accessory. The migration-related meaning does not seem to have caught up and is unlikely to be significantly expanded on any of the suggested pages. Place Clichy (talk) 22:48, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Not mentioned at target. The current situation, while the result of an RfD, amounts to an attempted compromise that just splits the baby; either this bit of wikijargon deserves a cross-namespace redirect or it doesn't and should be deleted; in no other situation would we redirect to a mainspace target that merely provides vague hints of this sort. * Pppery *it has begun...20:09, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete or retarget to match WP:!VOTE. I agree with Pppery. The information at Negation is not enough to understand this term, because !vote as used on Wikipedia doesn't just mean "not a vote", but rather reflects a bit of philosophical history of how our decision-making works. The current target is so unhelpful in clarifying this term that someone has added a hatnote there, resulting in a silly situation where everyone following this redirect to the current target is best served by immediately clicking on the hatnote. —Mx. Granger (talk·contribs) 20:43, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Neither the arcane programming term nor Wikipedia's own internal jargon deserves this unhelpful and confusing redirect. Bishonen | tålk21:47, 27 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]
Keepbut shift to a more specific subsection of the negation article. User:Pppery, the target article says, “For example, the phrase !voting means ‘not voting’”. Also, editors in this thread might find a link to the previous RfD useful: link. Regarding the hatnote at the target, it should remain regardless of this redirect, and I don’t see anyone here arguing otherwise. Anythingyouwant (talk) 23:59, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
That example in the article is both unsourced and misleading; the way !vote is actually used (at least in Wikipedia discussions) means something more specific than just "not voting". The text not voting in the article is wikilinked and leads to the Abstention article; that's definitely not what !vote means around here. —Mx. Granger (talk·contribs) 01:22, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
If the redirect is not kept then Retarget to match WP:!VOTE. The current target article clearly explains what the prefix “!” means in ordinary language, and gives the well-sourced example of !clue which means clueless. It’s very difficult to search for words that have the “!” prefix, because search engines ignore the exclamation mark even if the whole term is surrounded by quote marks, but I found this source which correctly defines !vote. Anyway, the main thing is, that people who encounter “!vote” should be able to put it in the Wikipedia search box to find out what it means. I don’t much care how this is achieved, but it should be achieved one way or the other. Anythingyouwant (talk) 05:14, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Anythingyouwant's improvements. Readers who read "!" as "Not" should naturally be led to the Negation article. The philosophy behind WP's !vote may be added. The hatnote to the meta term was already there. Another hatnote to Not voting for Abstention, may be added. I don't like the term "ordinary language" in the section title, but that's an article content issue. Jay 💬06:32, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Retarget to WP:!VOTE as a useful, acceptable WP:CNR. I agree with Pppery and other comments made here and at prior RfDs. This amounts to a clumsy avoidance of a CNR that sends readers looking for the most common usage on a wild goose chase. The brief mention that has been added to the end of Negation#Programming language and ordinary language is buried after a long, technical explanation and that sentence is liable to be deleted or altered in the future. !vote is an implausible search term outside of Wikipedia jargon. Deletion is a poor option as evidenced by the history of recreation and repeated RfD discussion where CNR is suggested but has yet to gain consensus. A hatnote can be added to WP:!VOTE pointing to Negation#Programming language and ordinary language to further explain the rationale for this usage, and on the off-chance someone not looking for Wikipedia jargon enters this unlikely search term. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk21:26, 12 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I do think adding the subsection Negation#Usage in ordinary language is an improvement but I still see this as a workaround to avoid a CNR that would be much more useful. And I maintain the concern that this content could be deleted or substantially edited in the future to remove the !vote example and usage. We can't always predict or account for this sort of 'redirect decay' where a target that once prominently discussed the word/phrase has been slowly edited to remove it years later, but here we have a target that is better (Wikipedia:Polling is not a substitute for discussion#Not-votes aka WP:!VOTE) and more likely to be stable. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk22:06, 12 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Retarget to Wikipedia:Polling is not a substitute for discussion § Not-votes. While I normally don't support WP:XNRs, the continued recreation of this as noted above shows that this likely makes sense as a redirect. While I would say that almost anyone who comes across !vote will be coming across it in the context of something in the project namespace so, WP:!VOTE/Wikipedia:!vote should be sufficient, it appears for some reason it is not. I oppose redirecting to Negation § Usage in ordinary language because I don't really think that the usage on Wikipedia belongs there. While it's not in programming language, it's rather specific jargon for Wikipedia editors, not daily parlance. Casablanca 🪨(T)01:00, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
User:Casablanca Rock, I accordingly modified the target article to say “colloquial” language instead of “ordinary” language. A number of editors here have mentioned that “ordinary language” might not be the best description of how the exclamation mark is used for negation in a conversational manner. Anythingyouwant (talk) 22:20, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Retarget to Negation#Usage in ordinary language. We have mainspace coverage of this term, with a citation also in mainspace. We are here to build an encyclopedia firstly, not take people to our backrooms, so mainspace coverage of a search term is always a priority to target redirects to, if it exists, and it does. Wikipedia !votes end up in mainstream media whenever journalists cover any influential Wikipedia discussion, of which there have been many, and people may want to read about encyclopedic coverage of that term if they want to search for it on Wikipedia. (People in the know, know to search for "Wikipedia:!vote" instead.) There are more people who read about Wikipedia without editing, than there are those who edit Wikipedia and participate in discussions, but it's the readers who we should be accommodating over anything else. Utopes(talk / cont)04:01, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Restore this was BLARed in 2020 by Premeditated Chaos with the rationale "redirect marketing to the product that was being marketed". The article content was, in its entirety: MSharePointCOE is a Microsoft strategy for evangelization and sharing of SharePoint across Enterprise. and three categories, there were no sources. Unfortunately this needs to be restored and either merged somewhere or deleted at AfD as it does not meet a speedy deletion criterion and thus cannot be deleted here. Thryduulf (talk) 12:38, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Thryduulf's explanation sans the last sentence. Because this is a redirect, and this is the forum for deleting redirects, this can (and should!) be deleted here. --Tavix(talk)14:56, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This is a blarred article, and as such needs to be treated as an article for the reasons I have to explain to you every time you try to inappropriately delete article content at RfD, despite never getting a consensus to change the policy to support your view. Thryduulf (talk) 15:40, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
the policy (or whatever you want to cite for this, i'll go with wp:blar for now) doesn't support your view either. it deliberately says nothing about if a blar goes to rfd. it's also been stable as a redirect for a little over 5 years, so unless you can make a genuine argument for restoring its content beyond a procedural headache that introduces problematic stuff back into mainspace for at least a week, there's no actual opposition to it being blanked
There isn't a policy that supports his views. If there was one he would have cited it. Instead he has to resort to vague waves. --Tavix(talk)16:08, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Show me one policy that says you can delete article content at RfD. Just one. I've been asking this for literally years and you've never presented one yet. Whereas I have pointed you to the deletion policy every time.
WP:ATD-R: A page can be blanked and redirected if there is a suitable page to redirect to, and if the resulting redirect is not inappropriate. If the change is disputed, such as by reversion, an attempt should be made to reach a consensus before blank-and-redirecting again. The preferred venue for doing so is the appropriate deletion discussion venue for the pre-redirect content, although sometimes the dispute may be resolved on the page's talk page. This BLAR has been disputed by its nomination here, and by everybody who has agreed it is inappropriate.
WP:XFD states that articles and other pages in the main namespace go to AfD or Prod. It does exclude redirects, but because the BLAR has been disputed we discuss the pre-redirect content which is not a redirect.
I didn't cite these before because I didn't think you'd need to be spoonfed again after I've spoonfed you the same exact links on multiple occasions. Thryduulf (talk) 19:47, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
that's better. this still spawns problems, though
what is your actual argument for or against the content of this blar? judging by you describing the fact that this "needs to be restored" as unfortunate, i don't imagine you're exactly in favor of restoring it due to its own merits and not out of procedure. if you're not in favor of it, has the blar even been disputed? i'd say it hasn't
neither of the pages you cited state conclusively that blars need to go to afd. atd-r says it's "preferred", but doesn't mandate or oppose them going elsewhere. xfd i still don't get, because it specifically excludes redirects from afd. this is why i asked for something that didn't only have afd as an example a couple comments down
It is unfortunate that something that is clearly not suitable as a stand-alone article in its current state cannot be deleted without less bureaucracy than AfD (or I suppose PROD) but unless and until policy changes to explicitly allow article content to be deleted at venues that are not intended for or set-up for discussing article content, and there is some method to advertise to interested parties that a venue which doesn't normally discuss article content is actually discussing article content, that is the way it has to be. Every BLAR that gets brought to RfD is, by definition, being contested. Every person who recommends something other than keeping such a redirect as a redirect to its current target is, by definition, contesting the BLAR. I have also explicitly contested the BLAR, so yes, this BLAR is unambiguously contested.
As for some method to advertise to interested parties... WP:AALERTS includes RfD and each WP:DELSORT topic includes a section for redirects (if someone wants to advertise a discussion there). You can also post a notice to the relevant WikiProject(s). --Tavix(talk)20:59, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
how is taking a blar to rfd more bureaucratic than restoring it and taking it to afd? maybe it's more bureaucratic than prodding, but that's like saying that a blender is better at blending stuff than a wooden spoon consarn(grave)(obituary)22:17, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Thryduulf: None of what you listed supports it does not meet a speedy deletion criterion and thus cannot be deleted here. WP:ATD-R explains what happens when someone BLARs an article and someone disputes that. In this scenario, you then have an intact article (not a redirect), so the logical place to dispute that would be AfD. That's not the scenario here—the page has long been established as a redirect and the selection of venue has already been established as RfD. It was nominated due to a lack of mention, which is an RfD concern that does not touch on BLAR whatsoever, so this BLAR has been disputed by its nomination here is false. Furthermore, the RFC that established this clause explicitly addressed this: This close does not comment on WP:RFD suitability for BLARs in any scenario, nor does it comment on what deletion venue is appropriate for what kind of page. WP:XFD explicitly explains that Redirects for discussion (RfD): Redirects, including soft redirects, in any namespace. Given the fact that this is a redirect, and WP:XFD doesn't list any exceptions to this, RfD is the correct venue. For your interpretation to be correct, it would have to say something like "Redirects, including soft redirects, in any namespace, with the exception of former article content not speediable", which of course it doesn't do. As for, you've never presented one yet, here's an example from three(!) years ago where I provided you with the relevant policy when asked. --Tavix(talk)20:48, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
please don't remind me that 2022 was 3 years ago...
to add to this, even assuming that arguing for deleting the blar with opposition to restoring it is "contesting" it, and any form of "contest" is worthy of restoring it anyway (however that works), then i can and probably should provide examples of this apparently existant rule being violated by admins, because this is the first time i hear of that
not assuming it, i really want to know what thryduulf thinks explicitly prohibits blars being deleted here and/or requires them going to afd despite agreements that the content isn't worth restoring (in this case, by what seems to be everyone but the nom lmao) consarn(grave)(obituary)21:56, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
If you are just going to claim that policy says something other than what it actually says then it's clear that anything else I say is going to be a waste of all our time, so I shall not say anything more. Thryduulf (talk) 23:03, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I don't mind being spoonfed policies, it's no sweat off my back. But don't make the claim that you don't want to waste time when you're literally advocating to waste AfD's time. --Tavix(talk)00:01, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
problem: it's verifiably not written how you say it is either. as i mentioned a couple times before, if it was, a fair bit of admins would either be in trouble for breaking a rule this important or not discussing whether or not it even exists, but that hasn't been happening a whole lot beyond this routine (at least to my knowledge) consarn(grave)(obituary)11:15, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
delete. there's no sources, no content, no promotional stuff to make fun of, nothing. honestly, i'd argue for it being a case of a3 or a7 for a quick laugh, but this is a redirect, so it doesn't meet a csd for articles~ consarn(grave)(obituary)15:12, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
As an article it would not meet A3 because the content, although very short, does exist and it is not just a rephrasing of the title, an attempt to correspond, a question or chat-like comments and it does not consist solely of images, template tags or article wizard framework. It does not meet A7 because it is about a marketing strategy which is not a real person, individual animal, commercial or non-commercial organization, web content, or organized event. There is enough context that it doesn't meet A1 either, it's not a hoax or vandalism (G3), it's not promoting anything (G11), a copyright violation (G12), a musical recording (A9), a recently-created duplicate (A10), nor is it obviously invented (A11). The only time it is possible, according to every policy, guideline and principle, to delete article content at RfD is when there has previously been a consensus discussion about the article content on the talk page or other venue for discussing article content that concluded it is not wanted (it hasn't been discussed in any such venue, so it's not possible for there to be such a consensus) or it would a speedy deletion criterion if restored (as explained in detail, it does not). Thryduulf (talk) 15:48, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
it's pretty obvious that this doesn't really meet any csd. however, tagging it for a tangentially related one would be funny
Knowingly tagging anything for a CSD that it doesn't meet is vandalism. Vandalism is not funny. I should have said "every relevant policy that has anything to say on the matter" rather than assume you would understand that I wasn't being literal. I'm not sure why providing examples (as I've just done above) undermine my point when you've consistently failed to provide any examples of policy explicitly allowing the deletion of articles at RfD. Thryduulf (talk) 19:51, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
the reason i've been careful with my use of "every" in discussions like this, even if i then narrow the definition down to something more useful than "everything i could find", is that it first requires an "any". and then another, and then another, if you're in a good mood, and that those "any"s be in such unambiguous and unanimous (if not necessarily numerous, as this part is contextual) nature that nothing opposes them. the fact that an "any" hasn't been defined yet by the failure to actually be conclusive lends little credibility to an "every", even if it's narrowed down to "every relevant x"
as for the examples, as usual, i cite wp:xfd, which says that redirects go to rfd, and wp:rfd, which says that redirects can be deleted in rfd. sure, neither of them being specific about where blars have to go is a double-edged sword, as this means i myself technically have nothing to state directly and conclusively that states directly and conclusively that redirects have to go to rfd... which is why i don't say that. i say they can (and i have proof in the aforementioned examples), and i say they don't need to go to afd if they've been stable (thus, not disputed) and it's agreed that the content that would be restored isn't very cash money, and i've shown to only oppose them going to afd from rfd (if only by never having mentioned them going straight to afd, whoops)
it's much simpler than "blars from articles have article content, so they can only ever be debated in afd, so we need to restore them no matter what, even if it's unambiguously Not Good, unless it's unlucky enough to meet a csd". plus, i can probably do that thing where i dump a bunch of examples of blars getting deleted here with no fuss again (including some where admins have voted to delete), or mention that twinkle has no issue with them going to rfd, or a third thing consarn(grave)(obituary)20:54, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Lunamann: I'm willing to give it some love if there is sourcing for it. Did your searches turn up anything promising? If you're able to find something, it seems to me that the most we'd be able to do is add a blurb about SharePointCOE to the target, in which case we can close the RfD as "keep". Restoring is really only useful when there is enough content available for a stand-alone article—if you think that may be possible here, I'd love to hear why. --Tavix(talk)14:06, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
i assumed in this discussion that thryduulf looked for sources before voting and didn't mention it for whatever reason, but for what that's worth, i looked into it just now and found... nothing usable, except for the unbelievably important revelation that it's actually "sharepoint coe", with a spaceconsarn(grave)(obituary)20:02, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
hey wait a minute! doesn't the act of voting to restore something that's either unsourced or agreed in rfd to not meet gng (which is particularly egregious when that's mentioned in the vote) and take it to afd without first checking for sources and stating what's been found violate wp:before? it seems like a fairly large oversight, almost bigger than the fact that that question didn't have a single comma consarn(grave)(obituary)19:25, 9 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
As an alternative proposal, should reliable, independent, secondary coverage be located, delete and create a new section under sharepoint with details of the marketing strategy. Otherwise the merge would be dead on arrival with only a single sentence to its name — 🪫Volatile 📲T | ⌨️C08:43, 10 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
(and yes, contested BLARs and incorrect venue nominations can be viewed as a waste of time without proper rationales though I acknowledge the second example has some additional circumstances and issues surrounding it). — 🪫Volatile 📲T | ⌨️C09:03, 10 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Tavix. Nominating the redirect at RfD is not contesting the BLAR, it is contesting the redirect as a redirect. The history is not especially relevant, and the policies are clear that redirects are to be discussed at RfD. Cremastra (talk·contribs) 16:44, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
When someone explicitly says that they are contesting the redirect, it's not a good look to say the redirect has not been contested. Thryduulf (talk) 17:05, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Pardon? I am not saying the redirect is not contested. But the nomination statement, Not explained anywhere on the English Wikipedia deals with it as a redirect qua – if I dare use such a pretentious word – redirect, not redirect qua former article. Cremastra (talk·contribs) 17:43, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The term is not mentioned at all in the target article. I'm unsure what "New York Times democracy" is, nor what the New York Times has to do with classical liberalism. Day Creature (talk) 16:18, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I play NationStates and it's definitely a thing there, but I haven't seen it used anyehwere else, nor is it the same as classical liberalism. Retarget to NationStates which has a chart explaining these things. Cremastra (talk·contribs) 18:30, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Assyrians is redirected to Assyrian people. The issue here is that Syriacs is a very ambiguous term, as is Syriac people. It does not exclusively refer to Assyrian people. I don’t think it’s comparable to Armenians and Armenian people, for example.
The term is not mentioned at all in the article (at least not in any language I can read). It appears there may have once been a type of administrative subdivision known or translated to English as "peripheral unit", but the present article makes no mention of this. For English speakers, I think more likely meaning for this term would be peripheral (computer devices). older ≠ wiser15:13, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Restore DAB; perifereiakés enótites can indeed be translated to 'peripheral units'. Meanwhile, while Peripheral CAN be argued to be a WP:PTM, I believe it's fine; as wikt:unit definitions 7 and 8 define a 'unit' to be an individual piece of equipment or an item that may be sold on its own, both things that can describe a peripheral in the tech sense. If it's deemed that peripheral is too much of a PTM and the redirect should instead be kept, I'm fine with that-- the Regional units of Greece page already includes a hatnote to peripheral, notably assuming that peripheral unit is a redirect and not a DAB....One that shhhnotsoloud added when he BLAR'd the DAB. Fair enough. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 15:50, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Restore DAB, as before this edit. The literal meaning of periferiaki enotita is peripheral unit. As administrative regions of Greece are called peripheries in Greek, regional unit is a better and more understandable translation. This meaning being just as legitimate as that of computer peripherals, both targets are equally valid. Place Clichy (talk) 22:16, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It was BLAR'd to tail in 2010 after Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scut, which is what it looks like the IP was trying to enforce; it was a semi-article about the tail and semi-DAB. Now confusingly, we also have Scut (disambiguation) which was created in 2016. This may be out of scope for RfD and I'm not an expert on when to use histmerges, but it feels like we should do a hist merge between Scut and Scut (disambiguation) and have the dab live at the base name and redirect the title with (disambiguation). So, uh, restore dab in whatever way makes the most sense. Skynxnex (talk) 18:26, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as it is hopelessly ambiguous, search terms works find the potential targets anyway. I would check the hit count though - but I'm on mobile Dovid (talk) 12:45, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
4 pageviews daily on average, 1835 monthly on average, is a decent amount; and it makes sense that it gets that many pageviews given it's just as "ambiguous and vague" as the title of Impacts of the Gaza war, which is an actual full article on the impacts of the current war in Gaza. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 16:05, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
yarn of shaggy texture. or apparently of a brand named "shaggy". or any combination of those two. not necessarily tied to carpets either way, and i found nothing suggesting that this is an alternative name for carpets, so this could probably be a cut-and-dry a1 if it wasn't blar'd in... 2009... why is this older than one of my sisters? consarn(grave)(obituary)12:37, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. My first thought was to wonder whether this was used to mean Shaggy dog story, given that "yarn" is a synonym for that, but I can't immediately see any evidence of that (but my searches did turn up a surprising proportion of Scooby-Doo-related hits, although none that indicate that would be a good target for this redirect). I'm not going to recommend restoring the old content here as although it wouldn't meet A1 (no context) if restored it would meet A3 (no content). I'm leaning delete but I've run out of time to investigate fully. Thryduulf (talk) 12:49, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
In more than ten years I've never visited this page before, but this should be deleted -Shagpile carpet is a thing, and the pile of a carpet is made of yarn, but this isn't redirect worthy. Note that the article Shag (fabric) is badly flawed, inherently wrong, and we shouldn't encourage readers to see it. I may PROD it. - Roxy thedog13:52, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Implausible search term. When referred to mononymously, it's always "Gaga", not "Lady". (Not suggesting "Gaga song" redirects should be created.) --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk23:02, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I'm on the fence here. On the one had, it doesn't seem like the most likely of search terms but on the other hand if someone does use this then the target is relevant and (in terms of extant encyclopaedia articles at least) unambiguous, so it is harmless. Thryduulf (talk) 11:16, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, this redirect is a sentence with a subject of "Inna", searching for pages by typing in sentences is not plausible and I don't think this is worth keeping. Utopes(talk / cont)03:51, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Not mentioned in target. For context, Trap-A-Holics is a hip-hop producer may have arguable notability. Still, they go unmentioned from La Chat's article and would suffice as being deleted despite possible notability, as opposed to being a weird redirect. Roast (talk) 00:58, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment — furthering my research, Trap-A-Holics hosted some albums by La Chat. Still, their notability stretches beyond one person's discography. Roast (talk) 01:05, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Don't have much of an opinion here, except to say that being unmentioned in an article does NOT rule them out of a redirect. There is literally such a redirect known as "R to article without mention" which does suffice in numerous instances. Whether or not it does here, I can't say as I'm oblivious re: these topics. But I just wanted to, er, mention that. --Cinemaniac86TalkStalk03:57, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The purpose of {{R without mention}} is to put the redirect into a maintenance category to determine if the redirect should be deleted, redirected somewhere else, or mentioned in the target article. The resolution of this RFD should not be to keep this redirect and tag it with {{R without mention}} since that would put the redirect into the maintenance category and the redirect would most likely end up back at RFD again anyways. We are already here; let's figure this out during this discussion. Steel1943 (talk) 19:21, 9 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as there is no mention. Anyone is free to create an article on the topic on their own time/schedule, WP:NORUSH. However, in the interim, people who search for "trap-a-holics" will not be able to read about their search term at the target, which it is more of a problem to mislead our readers than it is to have a redlink (we are a work in progress and there will always be red links to fill). Utopes(talk / cont)03:42, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep the first, retarget the second to Demographics of North Macedonia per 1234qwer... . Frequently a singular adjective like this is ambiguous between people/things associated with a country, an ethnic group and/or a language, but that isn't the case here so it should redirect to the country. The plural only doesn't redirect to the country's demographics article when the word is ambiguous with some other use (most commonly an ethnic group). Thryduulf (talk) 11:29, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
There does not seem to be content at the target describing a notion of "geometric equivalence". A web search shows rather specialised usages of the term compared to the target of this redirect, so it is unlikely to be helpful. The Gauge gravitation theory article also describes a "geometric equivalence principle" in physics, though redlinked there. 1234qwer1234qwer402:09, 10 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Notified of this discussion at the target. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Jay 💬06:48, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Unclear redirects that are either confusing and unclear via general terminology that could apply to many subjects, or because they are unmentioned anywhere on-site. Should be deleted due to a lack of navigational aid. Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 03:59, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
There is no targeting the tropical depression on its section articles for Huaning. Although JMA officially upgraded the system into tropical storm named Lingling (18W), this is a former name and needs to be deleted permanently. Icarus 🔭 • 📖 • ✎02:51, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The redirect is misleading since it claims that the target is about "some" and there is no effort to define what is not included in the "some" as defined by this redirect. Steel1943 (talk) 01:32, 14 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Thoughts on the page history? Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit02:26, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Additionally, the title suggests something one would expect to find in a textbook or tutorial, which Wikipedia is not.--MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk23:06, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
delete. there's nothing to worry about keeping in the history, as its usable content (that is, the sources) already found use in the target. the redirect itself fails to come with a definition of what it means by any of its words, the target doesn't try or need to define them either, and the stub confirms its already vague promise as a lie, as "some" actually meant "only one lol" consarn(grave)(obituary)23:33, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
List of countries and some dependent territories and subnational areas by incarceration rate
Doesn't seem like a plausible search term for the target article, given that the target title includes "countries", but the redirect also claims "dependent territories" and "subnational areas". Steel1943 (talk) 01:29, 14 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Country lists sometimes have dependent territories and subnational areas. So these name changes happen from time to time. Depends on editor consensus. While with any name links may be made to them. Deleting this redirect will break the link in 9 pages listed in What Links Here. Redirects should never be deleted if they are linked anywhere on Wikipedia. Probably linked from off Wikipedia too while it had this name. Redirects take an unbelievably small amount of bytes, and so hurt nothing on the servers. --Timeshifter (talk) 01:44, 14 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
For what it's worth, at the end of the day, "Deleting this redirect will break the link in 9 pages listed in What Links Here." and the sentence after are irrelevant since the links can be bypassed which solves that issue; however, I bypassed the only one in the article namespace already, and the other 9 are in non-article namespaces, meaning it is okay and expected that the links become redlinks if the title is deleted. That, and I guess I failed to point out that this redirect includes the word "some", which is misleading since it doesn't specify what topics are not part of the "some" group and why the target subjects are included in the "some" but others are not; in other words, your vote seems to support the existence of a redirect titled "List of countries and dependent territories and subnational areas by incarceration rate", not this one since the "some" issue is not considered. Steel1943 (talk) 02:02, 14 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
People read talk pages. One of the pages is a guideline talk page. People go back and forth on adding more info to list titles. So it is nice to point back to past discussions without broken links. And people do look for "dependent territories" in searches. I am an admin on wikis outside Wikimedia. I know that deleting redirects that have links to them do damage. A major cause of linkrot for links coming from outside Wikimedia especially. And I think it is a colossal waste of time to delete them since redirects take so few bytes. But deletionists be deletionists. --Timeshifter (talk) 05:45, 14 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Since I don't recall running into you before, I guess I'll let your lack of WP:GOODFAITH accusation of calling me a "deletionist" slide. I'm at RFD primarily since I see common issues with redirects (and do my good share of nominations because I look at the "what Links here" lists for pages), but I do vote "keep" when the nomination's rationale is questionable. Steel1943 (talk) 17:40, 14 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Even though I don't always agree with Steel, I don't recall ever having had cause to doubt that they were participating here in good faith. Thryduulf (talk) 22:10, 14 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as a {{R from move}}. The redirect title is also accurate, the first line of the article begins This is an alphabetical list of countries and some dependent territories and subnational areas and it does indeed contain countries, some dependent territories (e.g. Bermuda) and some subnational areas (e.g. Republika Srpska). It doesn't include all dependent territories or subnational areas either (e.g. Pitcairn and US states are not on the list). Presence or absence of internal links is not decisive either way. Thryduulf (talk) 09:54, 14 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as {{R from move}}. I'd be more concerned about whether or not "some" is accurate if this were a newly created redirect with no move history or certainly if we were discussing the article title. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk23:17, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. This has article or list potential and a red link may inspire its creation. The article on jaw is far too broad to be the appropriate target. A list of ICD-9 codes may contain some of the info on the topic but is not an adequate substitute for an article or list dedicated to the topic. Note that the two uses of jaw diseases currently in article space occur at List of MeSH codes (C07)#MeSH C07.320 – jaw diseases and List of MeSH codes (C05)#MeSH C05.500 – jaw diseases. These are no better than the ICD-9 list and if we think such a list could be appropriate then at best "jaw diseases" is ambiguous because multiple such lists exist. There are other classification schemes such as SNOMED and ICD-11 that one could argue for. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk23:34, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nino Maximus Kaizer Sose Sonador Jack Sparrow Sparta Garcia
No mentioned in the target article. I declined a speedy deletion because I think it is not gibberish, but it seems to be meaningless anyway. The user has some 2k edits back in 2007 and does not look like a vandal (although their edit sumaries were bad) Nabla (talk) 02:03, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
as the last line of the target section defines, "honeycombed" means "damaged or deteriorated enough to have funny holes where there shouldn't be any". it apparently also means "with funny honeycomb decorations :3" or "with funny honeycomb holes deliberately made :3", but that's besides the point. the adjective exists and has a source backing it up, but isn't actually exclusive to cannons, as results toss all three meanings around for pretty much anything you can call a "gun". i've found no more fitting target for this though, so consider this a "weak don't keep"? consarn(grave)(obituary)15:13, 13 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Circular redirect with deleted history that was never merged into the target list. Consensus at AfD was that this content is so non-notable as to not be missed. Should be a general housekeeping measure in this case. Red Shogun412 (talk • contribs) 00:13, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I was thinking that an royal style would be considered non-neutral as it's elevated from normal to be honorific, but it seems like that Rcat is pretty much exclusively used for non-neutral from a negative perspective, so I don't really have a strong opinion on this being kept to its current target. In reality, there is likely very little/no potential harm, especially BLP related, of giving someone what could be perceived to be an overly honorific name. Casablanca 🪨(T)12:49, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I hadn't thought of honorifics. {{R from honorific}} is a redirect to {{R from name with title}} which would fit the redirects I listed above, with the exception of HIM The Emperor which targets an article about the style not a person. If there is concern about styles not being titles (per SMcCandlish in the linked previous discussion) the target could be renamed to "R from name with title or style". Thryduulf (talk) 12:55, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
You're totally right. I should've researched further before stating it was retargeted. 99% of the time something ends up like that it's because of that. Apologies on my end there. Casablanca 🪨(T)12:46, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
KeepCure for diabetes mellitus type 1 as {{R from merge}} and delete the rest. The other pages don't have much history other than serving as redirects to the now-merged article. Diabetes type 1 curing is especially awkward and therefore implausible as a search term. § Transplant and § Research are both plausible refinements in theory but neither is clearly better than the other and neither focuses on nor comprehensively discusses the concept of a 'cure'. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk21:31, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
These redirects were on manual blacklists (from what I can recall frequent disruption) that got deprecated. If there is a better target for them, or someone wants to make a dismabig page that's fine -- but if they are going to be deleted they should be salted until ready to be used again. — xaosfluxTalk00:19, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
i mean... should they really be fully protected now? we're kind of 3 years past the disruption, and those two redirects aren't the teahouse, so i doubt it'll happen again- what do you mean 2022 was 3 years ago consarn(grave)(obituary)11:00, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all except the Disney ones (neutral on those). Except for the Disney ones, these are all disruptive pointless moves that should have been reverted without leaving redirects, some of whose disambiguators are highly implausible, and certainly not helpful. The Disney ones seem to have also been around a move request, and I'm not sure of the full story there, so staying neutral for now. 35.139.154.158 (talk) 03:26, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note to closer / relister: Nom added the bottom 5 entries on 14:35, 11 August 2025, so this nomination needs to stay for 7 days from the time, or it may be relisted, or the new entries moved as a new nomination to the August 11 page log. Jay 💬08:55, 12 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The titles are countless, so I'm not/I wasn't expecting a quick close of this nomination discussion, considering the multiple moves this sockmaster/sockpuppet has done. This multi-pronged nomination should have a clearer picture by Tuesday, so as to be deleted at once and in unison. I'm aiming for a 1 September closure of this specific discussion. Intrisit (talk) 15:01, 14 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Relisting Per Jay's comment. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, --Tavix(talk)16:57, 12 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Not open – closed! I wish I were having my own PC right now to respond to you quickly – I've been using a public internet café PC and in private browsing mode since the beginning of this year. Since this original nomination, I've been sporadically amassing these titles as at the time, I feared they were a lot, considering what the sockpuppet has done. Hopefully when they get deleted, they could be traced to this discussion as a reference for that. Intrisit (talk) 18:58, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: The list of redirects has grown since the original nomination, with the last three being added 8 days after the previous relist (nearly a month after the initial nomination). Relisting so that they can all be examined appropriately Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Thryduulf (talk) 20:24, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Thanks, Thryduulf! As I've stated, I'm aiming for a September 1st closure of this discussion, considering the multiple page moves by this sockpuppet/sockmaster has done. Such a shame these/those titles could not be deleted or eligible for G5 or even R3 deletion. But these titles I've added about or over 2 hours ago are the last of them – consider this multi-pronged nomination completed! The rest of the reason why these titles were not nominated at least within a week before or sonner is mentioned in my reply to Liz above. Sorry about that! And thanks again! Intrisit (talk) 20:44, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Checked one, Boomerang (European TV channel). Has history back to 2008. Continued checking, almost all of these seem to be well-constructed redirects, keep all per WP:Trainwreck. Just because G5 exists does not mean that we need to enact it in every situation, especially if the titles are viable enough to be "recreated immediately after". Hitting delete and then immediately remaking it is a waste of an edit. None of these are created by the sock-puppet to my knowledge, but instead by various longterm editors moving the pages back and leaving behind redirects. Utopes(talk / cont)21:19, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment when created this redirected to a section of this name at the-now deleted Israeli style hummus article. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Israeli style hummus suggests that the content was a mix of unsourced and non-notable varieties of Hummus. The section on the 13 September 2020 version of that article read as follows:
Jerusalem hummus is a dish consisting of Israeli-style hummus that has been topped with toasted pine nuts and warm, spiced ground beef or lamb that has been browned and seasoned with spices such as baharat. This variety has been called "The Best Hummus" by VICE.[1] Instead of topping the hummus with olive oil (as is common with other varieties), the hot beef or lamb fat takes the place of olive oil in this dish. It is very popular in Jerusalem, particularly during the winter and is a unique variety of hummus as it contains meat and most hummus is both vegan and pareve.[2][page needed]
It also contained the inline-image File:Jerusalem hummus.jpg with the caption Jerusalem hummus, an Israeli style hummus that has been topped with spiced, browned ground beef and pine nuts. but I've not been able to get that to play nicely with the blockquote. I've not looked into the notability or reliability of this. Thryduulf (talk) 20:45, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Retarget → Isotretinoin (aka Accutane). Google searches reveal accutan is almost always a typo/misspelling of Accutane. It is also a "branded" formulation of isotretinoin, of questionable legitimacy, sold on several "gear" (anabolic steroid) websites.[47][48] When I Google "accutan" alaska I mostly get Facebook, Quora, and Reddit posts on the first two pages referring to either Akutan, Alaska or Akutan Island, with some results for Accutane. This 1899 Wyoming newspaper article apparently spelled the island's name Accutan. If a hatnote is implemented, Akutan (DAB page) might be the better page to point to. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk15:20, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The rule at WP:RFD#DELETE #8 is to consider deletion if it's not mentioned at the target and it's "a novel or very obscure synonym for an article name". Redirects should not be deleted if the connection to the subject is obvious to most people, or if the redirect is correct but not appropriate for inclusion in the article, such as {{R from brand name}}. There's nothing wrong with an episode name redirecting to the main article about the show. WhatamIdoing (talk) 02:42, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete; as Thepharoah17 notes these are not episode names, but rather, the names of individual "Shen Gong Wu", which in the show's canon are the MacGuffin artifacts that are sought after by the heroes and villains (and also used BY the heroes and villains to use their powers). (And even if they WERE episode titles, the correct target would've been List of Xiaolin Showdown episodes.) In situations such as these, I feel like the model is still how we handle Pokemon-related redirects, even after the obsolescence of the WP:Pokemon Test; namely, no matter how relevant a detail of a show may be, if it's not notable enough to show up and be explained in the article itself, it shouldn't have a redirect-- and then, on the flip side, there's a high likelihood that it's not notable enough for article inclusion, either, because we're not Bulbapedia.(Or, in this case, we're not Xiaolinpedia. ...Oh, ew, it's still hosted by Fandom.) 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 03:50, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
it's time for another one of those "piles of votes because a lot of them have different rationales"
retarget silk spinner to loom. results seemed to treat that as a serviceable alternative name for those. or for spinnerets, but those were outnumbered by a lot
delete monkey staff and chameleon bot as vague
delete all the bird redirects as "make up your mind on a spelling, come on!!" (and per pelow)
This page has had several changes to what it should target just by people changing the history, I figured a discussion would be the best way to get consensus. I personally think that Chad (paper) § 2000 United States presidential election controversy makes the most sense as a target because it is on a page that defines what it is and explains it context while linking to an article on the larger issue of the recount. Casablanca 🪨(T)18:20, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
To the top of the page, not to a section? That seems to be the only point of conention here at the moment, so it might be better to clarify. Tevildo (talk) 17:43, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Retarget to Chad (paper) § 2000 United States presidential election controversy. This is the reason the term entered the popular lexicon and became notable, and is to this day. Other sources that define the term typically reference the 2000 election—for example, these pages from the first page of Google search results for hanging chad: [49][50][51][52] Re: Lunamann's suggestion: the 2000 election section is also short and also defines the term in the relevant context (a "hanging chad", where one or more corners were still attached). --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk15:33, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom (whose comment made me literally lol—the image of someone typing in "school sucks" and happily reading the entire article on Criticism of schooling thinking "ahh, yes, this exactly what I was looking for!" --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk15:41, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This redirect, created many years ago without an explanation, isn't actually mentioned as such at the destination page which is about the weather, and it obfuscates the search which shows how this word is more typically used. Joy (talk) 14:04, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep with hatnote. wikt:storm indicates that as a verb, 'storm' can be used either to indicate actual meteorological events (or compare things to it)-- in which case the current target is correct and is probably the primary target-- or, to indicate an assault on a military objective-- in which case redirection to an appropriate military strategy article might be a good idea. With two potential targets, disambiguation is the word-- and with one being the clear primary target, we should use a hatnote to disambiguate, rather than a dedicated disambiguation page. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 16:09, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
We can't have disambiguation between a meaning that is documented and a meaning that is not. If we try to follow the breadcrumbs from assault to get to storming, it ends at military tactics, which mentions assault but doesn't mention storming. So a prerequisite to what you're saying is documenting storming in an article like that. I didn't want to propose a solution that would force volunteers to do more work, rather, just use what we already have.
I see no evidence that this form of this verb is primarily used for meteorological events.
With regard to hatnotes, the storm article already has two, so adding a third one for a meaning that doesn't really match the primary topic for the base term would add more visual clutter for all the other readers who did not look up this present participle.
JFTR, if storming was squashed with storm (disambiguation), it would be part of a genuinely huge list, most of which is unrelated to "storming". If we point readers to wikt:storming, it doesn't explain this meaning. wikt:storm does, but on a page where the reader has to scroll down a lot to get to that (six pages (PgDn) on my big desktop screen; on mobile, they have to tap the English heading, and then engage in manual scrolling (no PgDn there) for about seven screen-fulls to get to that meaning :)
You want to redirect to the specific section of the same page which mentions this player. I don't see why a discussion is needed for that. Please withdraw this and fix the target directly. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 08:42, 10 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
kind of a weird case, even ignoring the two or more layers of wonky wording. this used to target robot exoskeleton, which is currently a redirect to exoskeleton (human). the current target doesn't have info on robots based on arthropods (or would it be arthropod cyborgs?), and that target would be unfitting since exoskeletons aren't exclusive to arthropods, most humans aren't arthropods, and robots that walk on four or more legs aren't necessarily based on arthropods... so what does that leave for this redirect? i haven't really found any fitting targets, as other articles seem to focus on just about every other shape a machine can have, and robotic mantis shrimp production hasn't been in the news lately consarn(grave)(obituary)14:24, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
See draft. I've converted the category info and article history into a list with accompanying map. It probably doesn't deserve to be a stand-alone list (please tell me how to cite this stuff properly), but it can be merged as a subsection of List of mountain passes#Europe. ⇌Synpath14:53, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Synpath has made a draft list but isn't sure. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Jay 💬13:33, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This was tagged with a {{R avoided double redirect}} to The Perfect Girl (song). That has since become an article so it appeared in Category:Avoided double redirects to be updated, so when I went to check The Perfect Girl (song) to see if it was still an appropriate retarget I wasn't really sure what to do. The article is about the song written by the Cure, but other than mentioning that the Cure wrote the song, it's really all about a cover of the song. I am unsure if the current target of the album the song was released on by the Cure is better, or if there is benefit in retargetting to the specific song even if there's very little information on the Cure's version of the song. Casablanca 🪨(T)13:08, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Why? If e.g. "Henry 8" is unambiguous or has a primary topic, why should it lead to a disambiguation page because e.g. "George 3" is ambiguous? Thryduulf (talk) 12:42, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Agree with Casablanca Rock and Thryduulf. These should track to the Roman numeral versions. If the Roman numeral has a primary topic, there's no reason for the Arabic numeral version to be different. If the Roman numeral is a disambiguation, the Arabic version should point there as well. older ≠ wiser14:31, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I would say that George 3 and George 4 are ambiguous as, in addition to being a shorthand for the relevant kings, they are also (actually capitalised as GEORGE 3 and GEORGE 4) the proprietary names of old computer operating systems (always Arabic numerals). OosoomTalk 14:46, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep/Retarget per Casablanca. I seem to have carelessly created some of these like George 6, but it was a long time ago and I now agree that George 6 should go to Primary Topic George VI, etc. And, even though I can remember using GEORGE 3, I think it's probably sufficiently minor that the king George III should be PT for George 3. PamD18:22, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This redirect was originally an article containing facts about Belgium but was turned into a redirect in 2005. This should be Deleted as the article about Belgium contains a lot more than just facts. ArthananWarcraft (talk) 10:00, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Semi-weak Keep; it may contain 'more than just facts' but it does unequevocally contain facts about Belgium. Anyone who searches this redirect and lands on the Belgium page would be happy with what we have there.Whether this is a plausible redirect is another issue entirely; I feel that it's plausible enough but other editors may disagree. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 10:20, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Someone using this search term is unambiguously going to end up at the right place, and given that there is no evidence of it having caused any harm in the past 20 years I think it is unlikely to cause any going forwards. Thryduulf (talk) 10:50, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Less likely on a QWERTY keyboard, where X and C are at least next to each other. That said, a typo in the first letter is generally going to be noticed before the term is entered, making this quite implausible. 1234qwer1234qwer423:39, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, as noted by OP this isn't historical; in fact, @FaroeFO was the page author, two weeks ago. So unless FaroeFO was recreating a page that'd been deleted by mistake (and surely that would've left behind some records to look at, right?), this doesn't belong. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 10:23, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
well the description is correct as this is CamelCase Except... not really? CamelCase is when a phrase or multi-word name/article title has all spaces removed, with capital letters denoting where spaces should be-- 'CamelCase' itself encodes for 'Camel case', as its own article notes.. If this is CamelCase, then the CamelCase is encoding for "Canad a", not "Canada". Except that's nonsense.𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 04:02, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes and no. On wikis that use CamelCase links (such as Wikipedia in its earliest days), all page titles must contain at least two non-consecutive capital letters. Multi-word titles were just fused together, e.g. UnitedKingdom but that obviously doesn't work for single-word names so the convention used on Wikipedia (if I had to guess I'd say it was inherited from MeatballWiki) was to capitalise the first and last letters, e.g. CanadA. All such titles, whether composed of one or more words, are referred to as CamelCase so your comment is correct in the general case, but incorrect in the context of wikis. Thryduulf (talk) 09:56, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
oppose change. An "education strike" most likely refers to a labor strike, not a military strike. The military may strike a school, but not "education". CapitalSasha ~ talk03:08, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose 'Israeli education strikes' is not a natural way to refer to military attacks on schools and I cannot imagine why someone looking for that would use such a search term. Traumnovelle (talk) 19:59, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I would assume the disambiguator is in the sense of "Tiger, but the wild animal"-- as opposed to, say, Tiger (guitar), or Tiger Electronics, or HMS Tiger. In that sense, if it weren't for the fact that Tiger is so unequivocally the primary target as to render this an unnecessary disambig, it'd honestly be an XY situation between Tiger and all the other animals on the Tiger (disambiguation) DAB. As it stands, though, the target is correct.That being said, while unclear may not be the correct term, implausible... possibly is, I'll grant you that. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 02:15, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I find this rather implausible and unclear. 'Wild' would seem to distinguish the animal in the wild from tigers in captivity. There is no domesticated tiger. The history reveals vandalism and is otherwise useless. Pageviews shows only 149 total views since May 2017 so it is, unsurprisingly, not useful nor used (much). (For reasons that are unclear, it had many more views from July 2015 to April 2017.) --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk18:07, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, implausible search term. This is how you'd refer to a princess whose name is "Zora", not a princess who is a Zora (the water-dwelling creatures in the Zelda franchise). 35.139.154.158 (talk) 00:24, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Retarget and tag per Lunamann. Or retarget all to Katie Holmes#Personal life (and tag). Currently the {{anchor}} #Suri Cruise is placed right above the #Personal life section at Katie Holmes. Tom and Katie are both reasonable targets. In addition to Katie's article containing more discussion of Suri, this is the target for the three redirects with significant history per the nom's listing. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk18:21, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep. This is exactly the sort of situation that navigation pages were intended to cater for: a topic notable enough for a mention but not notable enough for a standalone article that is covered approximately equally in more than one ___location. In their absence we don't have any great options, but being a {{R from merge}} deletion is not an option either. That leaves me as a week keep, given someone using the search term will find what they are looking for at the target, even if they would also find it elsewhere. Thryduulf (talk) 20:57, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with all that. The relevant section of Tom Cruise's article is now called "Marriages and relationships", that in Katie Holmes' article is titled "Personal life". Thryduulf (talk) 23:35, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
All the redirects should point to the same target (with two marked as avoided of the third). My preference is for the section over the top of the article, but that preferences is weak. Thryduulf (talk) 20:13, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
You've misunderstood-- that's what I mean by "they should all be synchronized", as in, they all need to point to the exact same place. As stated earlier, I have no preference on either pointing them all to Tom Cruise#Marriages and relationships, or Katie Holmes#Personal life-- only that whichever one we point to, all three redirects go there, and that ___location needs a hatnote pointing to the other ___location as well, that way an interested reader can have access to both viewpoints of the relationship. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 20:16, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! I thought that was more likely what you both intended but it's helpful to have it restated clearly for the sake of the discussion. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk14:37, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This is currently the only redirects to Wikinews. As a general principle I'm dubious of the merits of such redirects since Wikipedia and Wikinews serve incompatible purposes, but that aside there isn't enough substance about this specific term at the target to warrant a redirect - the only mention of this exact phrase is a source title. * Pppery *it has begun...19:33, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. WikiNews allows original research, so sending people to read any potential opinion piece via a soft redirect on an encyclopedia is not the purpose of Wikipedia. Was considering RfDing this at some point myself. Utopes(talk / cont)22:24, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Restore without prejudice to AfD or merge. This was a very short article that was BLARed in 2013, that had a source. A quick google suggests that "Blinkie" is possibly the more common spelling but it's likely that more sources exist on this. Whether the correct amount of detail is a mention at GIF#Animated GIF, a separate section at GIF or a stand-alone article I don't know but those are not questions for RfD. Thryduulf (talk) 13:05, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Not having an inline source is not the same as not having a source - the external link clearly supports at least some of the text. Thryduulf (talk) 20:22, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete unless someone wants to add a mention somewhere. Whether or not a mention (or section) can be added is absolutely a question for RfD, especially given that there's no scope for a stand-alone article. --Tavix(talk)13:42, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
A quick Google search turns up far more results for the variation of baseball called blitzball than the fictional sport in Final Fantasy X, where this redirect currently points to. The current redirect was created from a disambiguation page in 2017, and I believe the baseball variation has grown significantly since then. Hdjensofjfnen (talk) 08:00, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'm fine with restoring the disambiguation. My concern at the time was a lack of mention for any other topic which now looks to have been resolved. --Tavix(talk)14:03, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Move to Blitzball (sport) to reflect its page history and potential to merit a standalone article about the sport, as it seems like it may be notable, but then make the original ___location a DAB page split between the real-life sport and the FFX minigame (which also seems likely notable). ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 08:14, 9 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Disambiguate, or is the baseball sport the primary topic? Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Jay 💬14:52, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
There is one mention of this character on wikipedia at It's a Jersey Thing but it's absolutely not in depth. Using wikiblame, I can't find if the character was ever mentioned at its current target. Regardless, nothing is going to give the reader what they are looking for so deletion seems like the best way of doing this. Casablanca 🪨(T)14:05, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nom. comment I have bundled in DogPoo. I will say I admitedly know very little about South Park, so I would not take anything I say on the topic authoritatively. I came across this while cleaning up something else. Casablanca 🪨(T)14:16, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete or tag possessive of this sort for cleanup, per my !votes and comments in the Canada's and David Bowie's discussions. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk17:59, 13 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This is correct; I had not seen WP:NOPIPE before making my comment suggesting [[Jimbo Wales|Jimbo Wales's]] as a solution. That said, WP:NOPIPE also explicitly mentions the practice of using [[Jimbo Wales]]'s instead; it presents it as a more reasonable alternative to specifically [[Jimbo Wales|Jimbo Wales's]], but presenting it as "the correct way" also means it's the preferred alternative over making [[Jimbo Wales's]] as a redirect. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 15:03, 13 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I've started the discussion here and was alerted to a recent discussion of the same topic on the talk page here, which stemmed from a discussion at Help talk:Link#Consensus on possessives?. My read is no consensus on the general practice of including the apostrophe in the wikilink, aside from NOPIPE, which doensn't apply in the case of redirects. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk19:17, 13 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and fix active mainspace uses to instead use [[David Bowie]]'s instead of [[David Bowie's]] as per Traumnovelle. If a redirect exists purely for use by the editors, it doesn't need to exist (Shortcuts to Wikipedia: namespace or userspace essays notwithstanding); the editors can simply just... fix it. If the 's showing up outside the link doesn't look good to you, just pipe the link-- [[David Bowie|David Bowie's]] is a perfectly functional way of getting a link that looks like David Bowie's instead of David Bowie's. Strikeout 15:05, 13 August 2025 (UTC) 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 02:53, 12 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I think it's an issue with how linked anchors are displayed on some skins. I use the vector-2022 skin and jumping to the K5 and K6 anchors hides the text underneath the banner at the top of the skin. Maybe I should just link the section (WP:R#KEEP) rather than the anchors in the future. ⇌Synpath18:09, 12 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete or tag these somehow so they can be cleaned up in article prose. See also my !vote and comment under Canada's discussion. These look bad and should be discouraged in article space, although I don't see any MOS or other guidance on this. To the extent they are useful for editors, an appropriate tag (R-cat) similar to {{R from alternative punctuation}} or {{R from misspelling}} could be used to identify these and facilitate cleanup in article space. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk17:37, 13 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per my argument against David Bowie's above, and fix the active mainspace uses Tavix mentioned. To wit: If a redirect exists purely for use by the editors, it doesn't need to exist (Shortcuts to Wikipedia: namespace or userspace essays notwithstanding); the editors can simply just... fix it. If the 's showing up outside the link doesn't look good to you, just pipe the link-- [[Canada|Canada's]] is a perfectly functional way of getting a link that looks like Canada's instead of Canada's.𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 04:27, 12 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Assuming you're referring to shortcuts with the latter part, seeing as it's what I gave leeway for up there: Because a namespace shortcut and a mainspace redirect, despite being based on the same technology, are meant for entirely different purposes. A namespace shortcut is meant to be an easily-remembered shorthand for the often long and unwieldy titles that we often give our essays; as an example for an essay written by me, it's far easier to remember "WP:BACKINBOX" than it is to remember "Wikipedia:Please, put Pandora back in the box". This is useful when, for example, we need to cite such an essay in a discussion (for example, here in the XfD pages); it's far easier to go "Keep; X user's argument is invalid, see WP:BACKINBOX" than to type out the full title of the essay. However, this is a practice that's only used here in project namespace; over in mainspace, shortcuts aren't a thing. A mainspace redirect is meant to be interacted with by readers, not the editors. Its primary purpose is to catch searches that readers might toss at Wikipedia, and redirect them to the correct article. Editors aren't expected to need redirect technology when editing mainspace articles, primarily because they already have the powerful ability to simply pipe entire sentences into links without creating redirect pages. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 05:13, 12 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and fix current usage in articles, consistent with Lunamann's arguments. Unlike singular vs. plural word forms, readers do not (reasonably) expect to find an article titled Canada's. In fact, it's not obvious what this refers to—it is ambiguous. I am not suggesting a retarget, but Canadian (disambiguation) is arguably a better target. The boundary between 'helpful for editing' and facilitating sloppy editing that goes against WP norms is fuzzy but this crosses my threshold. I view this as an error that should be corrected rather than perpetuated. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk18:33, 12 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Perhaps there could be a tag for these akin to {{R from misspelling}} or perhaps an appropriate category already exists. I think this usage should be identified and removed from articles (fixed) and perhaps there's a better way to do this. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk18:42, 12 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Myceteae and nom. Effectively these are redirects from typos, and in most cases it's better to fix the typos and remove the redirect. If the redirect stays, that just encourages more undetected links to a mistaken link target. Gawaon (talk) 21:02, 13 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I agree there is a fundamental difference between the possessive form and a misspelling. I still see this as a bad practice and something that should be cleaned up in article space. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk20:30, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. I searched up similar discussions from the archive. That search finds ~75 logs with nominated redirects that end with 's. I linked some here roughly for every year going back to 2016. I believe the RfD on J.R.R. Tolkien's is a good discussion to skim as it was well-attended. I was hoping to come out with a clearer sense of whether these are good redirects or not, but I've basically landed on: "They can be useful for linking (especially beginning editors), some cases require them, but they tend to promote poor style while clogging up search results and are at worst confusing." That and they seem to be discussed perennially, which is an aspect of WP:COSTLY. Maybe a new tag/maintenence category suggested above can help wrangle this, but I don't know if that is less/more work than what we're currently doing here.
I agree there needs to be wider discussion. Perhaps WP:VPP or another centralized discussion forum would be a good place since there have been a number of discussions at RfD, Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Linking, and Help talk:Link (and possibly elsewhere). Ultimately, I think an RFC on guidance to be added to Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Linking (aka MOS:LINK) is in order but more WP:RFCBEFORE may be needed to clarify the question, or whether or not the MOS should even tackle this. The style question of whether linking possessive this way in article space is proper is separate from redirect-specific considerations, like 'usefulness', but these are interrelated and resolving the style question should inform how we handle redirects. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk15:18, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete in favour of search results. Firstly, the content history (all unsourced) is not worth preserving. Secondly, the term is vague and the suggested dab page doesn't cover the pieces of media that 'love slave' could indicate. Examples I saw are partial title matches to songs, an exact match of a song name from Under17 (+brief mention at DearS), and reversals like Slave to Love and Slave of Love. Those aren't really enough to make a new dab page and have similar relevance to (some) topics at the suggested dab page above. ⇌Synpath21:07, 12 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Partial title matches and rearrangements of the words in the title are irrelevant. The single exact title match is best handled by a hatnote or entry on the dab page. Thryduulf (talk) 12:18, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. The original target was Skunks as petsSkunks as pets, which contained a comprehensive table containing the relevant information. This article was WP:BLARed on 11 September 2024, and left pointing to the vestigial section Skunk#As pets. I think the ideal solution would be to restore Skunks as petsSkunks as pets and send it through the proper AfD process - if it fails, the redirects that are the subject of this RfD can be deleted, otherwise they should be restored. Tevildo (talk) 08:56, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Even if you restore the suggested target article (no opinion on that at the moment), this should still be deleted, as it's way too specific to reasonably point there. One of the redirects in question was an unsourced, pretty clearly nonnotable stub, which was BLARed to "Skunks as pets", but there was nothing to single out Virginia there as opposed to anywhere else. 35.139.154.158 (talk) 18:12, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Delete per WP:REDYES and MOS:NOFORCELINK. This is an adjective that might redirect to anorectum but that page does not exist. The three examples in article space, and others I can conceive of, either violate MOS:NOFORCELINK (Use a link when appropriate, but as far as possible do not force a reader to use that link to understand the sentence. The text needs to make sense to readers who cannot follow links.) or are unnecessary. If a word needs to be defined in order for a passage to make sense to a general audience, it should either be defined in the article or avoided. The meaning of anorectal may be well enough obvious from context in these articles but if it's not, sending readers to the dictionary indicates a NOFORCELINK problem. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk17:24, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Local language name of the place combined with the local language name of the island it is on and an unnatural disambiguator of the place name in English. 𝔅𝔦𝔰-𝔖𝔢𝔯𝔧𝔢𝔱𝔞?16:52, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I had created this redirect back in 2014 - it must have been a redlink somewhere and I must have created a redirect instead of fixing the link. I have no objection of deleting this as I agree with the arguments above (on another note, the page should really be "Victoria, Gozo" not "Victoria, Malta", but that's a discussion for another day). Xwejnusgozo (talk) 18:49, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Xwejnusgozo: It's not just one incoming link, there are several at List of churches in Malta. I would have simply replaced them with the current target, but there are several other Ir-Rabat entries in the list, and this redirect may have been created to differentiate from that. Can you fix the list if this redirect is no longer needed? Jay 💬17:10, 11 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
should probably have mentioned that i ended up not drafting the dab because it'd only have two entries, which isn't enough imo. would've mentioned it a couple hours after this nom but i forgot :( consarn(grave)(obituary)21:02, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The "X" in Malcolm X's name is not a Roman numeral, he adopted this surname to symbolize his lost African family name, and it's pronounced like the letter "X" and not "ten". ArthananWarcraft (talk) 07:19, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep While true, it's possible there are those who do not know that and it seems largely helpful to navigation given many times 'X' does serve to mean 10 or the tenth. Casablanca 🪨(T)17:04, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete since this is not a used or correct mispronunciation of the target's name. Seems to be once case where WP:PANDORA is valid: Are we then to create redirects where "X" is by itself and make corresponding redirects with "10" in them, even when "X" is not meant to be pronounced as so? (Only exception to this I can think of is with iPhones since no one really knows what Apple is doing with their naming conventions.) Steel1943 (talk) 17:11, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I haven't suggested creating anything - I probably wouldn't have created this redirect and I'm not telling anyone else to make any similar redirects. I just don't think this redirect has any reason to be deleted, which is why I voted "keep". BugGhost🦗👻23:29, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
TBD There is another redirect for Malcolm X up for discussion (the implausible M Alcolm X, which was indubitably a typo and should not be supported imo)—that one is a crystal clear Delete from me.
This one, I am torn. I think it might be a foreign misinterpretation of the value of X—interpreting the X as a roman numeral or algebraic integer, and thus not worth keeping. OTOH, at least this one has a bit more coherence in its redirect necessity. @Steel1943 I will say though that YES, I fully support bundling Malcolm the Tenth into this discussion, seeing as how they're essentially the same redirect from a phonetic perspective. --Cinemaniac86TalkStalk23:45, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I don't think it's a plausible mistake. Does anyone actually search this term? No one ever called him Malcolm 10. -- Ssilvers (talk) 07:40, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I think it's due to non-English speakers or whomever possibly thinking 'X' is the roman numeral, not about people actually calling him that. In their minds, they might read it as Malcolm 10 by mistake, and thus it would both guide and correct them. Just a thought.--Cinemaniac86TalkStalk08:30, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, plausible. Roman numerals after a first name are very common, eg. the many Louis X's, and Henry V's. Someone seeing Malcolm X's name written and having no knowledge of him would have no reason to know it's not a numeral. It would be incorrect to put it in the article, but the redirect is fine. BugGhost🦗👻18:01, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, these deletion discussions should really be taking into account the diminished level of adequate education in school systems, as many misspellings and other mistakes are becoming normal in venues such as texting, etc. and are being carried over when readers search for topics. Randy Kryn (talk) 13:39, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as misleading and not mentioned at the target. Once again, CHEAP is not a reason to keep redirects; it's a counter to complaints about server resources, which no one is making. Even after a basic web search, I can't find anyone actually using this in earnest (just the occasional joke). Whom is this going to actually benefit? It's never spoken like this, so it doesn't get a pass on a phonetic transcription. And someone seeing it written would have to go out of their way to type this all out, which is exceedingly implausible. Who the hell is going to see "Malcolm X" repeatedly written and then come to Wikipedia and type "Malcolm the tenth" into the search box. This is not reasonable. 35.139.154.158 (talk) 21:31, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep both. See {{R from incorrect name}}. Yes, they're wrong, but that doesn't make them implausible redirects. Nobody calls him Malcolm the Tenth or Malcolm Ten, but you might vaguely remember reading it and look him up by one of these search terms. It's perfectly fine to have redirects for Roman numerals that aren't really Roman numerals; see Kim Jong II (Kim Jong the Second) for another example. Nyttend (talk) 21:45, 9 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Thoughts on Jay's retarget suggestion? Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Rusalkii (talk) 06:19, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete whilst that article did previously list the event, its is correct to only list notable events there e.g. ones with articles. Thus, this event should not be listed at target article, and so redirect is not needed. Joseph2302 (talk) 07:54, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per the previous AfD, which did not have any support for keeping the article—the only !vote was for deletion. --Tavix(talk)13:49, 11 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete AfD has already decided this shouldn't exist as an article. RfD can now decide this shouldn't exist as a redirect either. There's no reason to play ping-pong as Jay suggested. * Pppery *it has begun...02:57, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sure, I can do that, since it was more exhaustive than the current target, and cannot be compared to the current target. Vestrian24Bio, what do you think, since you have been reverting any attempts to restore the list page? Jay 💬06:59, 26 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The list notability guideline asks if it has been discussed as a group or set by independent reliable sources,not whether the items are notable. There are plenty of stand-alone lists with non-notable entries (eg: members of Category:Redirects to list entries). There are sources discussing regional T20 leagues in India as a group ([54][55][56]), so I don't think an AfD would be a foregone conclusion. --Tavix(talk)14:29, 26 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The purpose of this RFD is to decide what to do with Madhya Pradesh League, not to try and demand restoration of other articles that are different redirects. But my point still stands- if restored I will AFD it, because I do not believe it meets WP:NLIST. Therefore, redirecting to that article is not beneficial. Joseph2302 (talk) 15:53, 26 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Not useful, and self promotional for the original editor of the redirect. As per WP:RDEL "If the redirect is a novel or very obscure synonym for an article name that is not mentioned in the target, it is unlikely to be useful' and "The redirect constitutes self-promotion or spam" for the original editor / creator Nayyn (talk) 22:05, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry DrinksOrCoffee reopening this one as well. Same as the above, Keep as a common synonym for target, and would appreciate clarity as to how this got deleted without explanation while under a live deletion discussion. BugGhost🦗👻23:13, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as per BugGhost. "Sucking cock"/"Cock-sucking" is a VERY VERY VERY common colloquial English term for Fellatio, to the point where it's more recognized than the term Fellatio itself. Thus, it fails the "novel/very obscure synonym" check for WP:RDEL. I also fail to see how it would constitute self-promotion (promoting who exactly???) or spam (if it were spam you'd think more than just one redirect would be in this RfD, right?)I'd also like to note that the argument given by Asilvering that Pppery is referring to isn't here???? As far as I can see user:Asilvering hasn't commented on this RfD. Given that, I'd like to ask what user:Pppery's argument for deleting this would be? Nevermind. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 21:50, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Absolutely useless, and potentially misleading. As a phrase, this is generally used as some sort of retort, and has very little to do with the actual act. Also DNFT and all that per Asilvering. 35.139.154.158 (talk) 15:26, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Bugghost. Someone searching this is either looking for the target article (in which case this redirect helps them) or they aren't looking for encyclopaedic content (in which case they aren't relevant to our considerations). Thryduulf (talk) 21:30, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This is not a realistic search term for anyone looking for the target. It's more realistic as an insult, which leaves someone searching for this wondering why they're here. 35.139.154.158 (talk) 17:57, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. This phrase is used more commonly as a pejorative to a point where readers searching this term aren't necessarily looking for the current target article. Steel1943 (talk) 20:30, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete consistent with the outcome of the January RfD where it was established that Fellatio is not the appropriate target for the insult/retort. Agree with BugGhost that suck dick, sucking dick and dick sucking (and we have the corresponding suck cock, sucking cock and cock sucking) are valid redirects for the act, but I see the "a" in "Suck a cock" to generalize "my", "his", etc. The other similar terms are sufficient for anyone looking for the act, and this one was troll behaviour or fishing for credit per nom and asilvering. As an WP:ATD, retarget to Cock (slang)#Derived terms where cocksucking is mentioned. Jay 💬07:09, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirects do not enjoy the same level of protection that ATD offers content pages, because there's no content to preserve. A redirect can trivially be recreated. Crying ATD with a bad alternate target doesn't cut it, and this is a bad alternate target, because it's about a different topic. 35.139.154.158 (talk) 00:20, 11 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, this is more likely to refer to slang than a description of the action, per Steel1943. Not discussed at the slang article. Utopes(talk / cont)01:56, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Weak retarget to Cock (slang)#Cocksucker or Sexual slang#Pejorative usage as they cover the insult meaning though they don't precisely mention the phrase. The former is the closest semantically, the latter covers how the phrase is used. No objection to deletion, but these redirects should be considered as a way to prevent spam recreation if this comes up again. Maybe salting outright is necessary, but I haven't seen many discussions that result in salting. comment copied from related discussion § Suck a dick⇌Synpath18:04, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Not useful, and self promotional for the original editor of the redirect. As per WP:RDEL "If the redirect is a novel or very obscure synonym for an article name that is not mentioned in the target, it is unlikely to be useful' and "The redirect constitutes self-promotion or spam" in this case, for the original editor / creator Nayyn (talk) 22:06, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry DrinksOrCoffee I've just reverted your close. Can someone explain what happened here? This redirect looks correct to me, the nom statement is baffling (not sure how it could be seen as self promo or spam or as a very obscure synonym), and the redirect got deleted while it was meant to be under discussion at RFD? What happened? Could anyone with deletion goggles give some insight? Either way, Keep (recreate?) as a harmless redirect from a common phrase to the correct article. (Pinging nom Nayyn) BugGhost🦗👻23:01, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Bugghost, it took me some work to understand what "self promotional" meant here but I think I get it. The context is that the creator, who from behaviour I assume is a middle schooler, has spent most of their time on Wikipedia creating or requesting dozens of redirects on topics that middle schoolers think are edgy and funny, like various sex acts, names for genitalia, and the n-word. See their extensive user talk page for examples and various attempts by admins to tell them to cut it out. If any of you think any of these redirects are genuinely useful, they can be recreated. My personal opinion on the matter is that no one should do that, because we should not feed the trolls and because these redirects are stupid. No one's needed a redirect from "suck a dick" to "fellatio" in 25 years. We don't need it now either. -- asilvering (talk) 12:40, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the clarity on this one. I appreciate why the redirects made by this user got nuked, but seeing as this one (and Suck a cock below) got listed at RFD I think they should have remained at a deletion discussion rather than deleted outside of it. Regardless of who made the redirects, even if it was a vandal who also made unhelpful redirects, if it was listed at RFD it should stick around until we get a consensus. Maybe wp:nuke should be updated to avoid deleting things that are already listed at deletion discussions? Either way, in my view, the "the website has survived without this for x years so we don't need it now" argument is techincally applicable to all new articles/redirects, so without further reasoning it's not enough to justify deletion. It's worth noting that suck dick, sucking dick and dick sucking are already existing non-controversial redirects to fellatio, and suck a dick is not really an outlier. BugGhost🦗👻23:25, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep/recreate as per BugGhost. I now understand why these were considered spam specifically, as prior (on 'Suck a cock') I hadn't seen the other redirects (though as a note for user:Nayyn maybe it'd be a good idea to bundle them together and specify "hey, the reason I'm doing this is because these are spam", so we don't spend energy trying to figure out how these are somehow self promotional, next time?)That said, I'd like to still point out that this is a common colloquial English term for the act of fellatio ('cock' and 'dick' themselves both being colloquial terms for penis), which means it still fails WP:RDEL's "novel/obscure synonym" test (er, passes??? okay so what it does is evade WP:RDEL). Also, given these are recently created I'm not sure we have data on how much they would be searched, so I don't know if asilvering's "we haven't needed these redirects for 25 years" argument actually holds water? 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 22:06, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The view logs when I submitted them were less than 5 views over the past 30 days, so I didn't think it readers were finding them useful... Nayyn (talk) 22:10, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Absolutely useless, and potentially misleading. As a phrase, this is generally used as some sort of retort, and has very little to do with the actual act. Also DNFT and all that per Asilvering. 35.139.154.158 (talk) 15:26, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. This phrase is used more commonly as a pejorative to a point where readers searching this term aren't necessarily looking for the current target article. Steel1943 (talk) 20:30, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete consistent with the outcome of the January RfD where it was established that Fellatio is not the appropriate target for the insult/retort. There is also no useful content at Dick (slang). Agree with BugGhost that suck dick, sucking dick and dick sucking are valid redirects to the act, but I see the "a" in "Suck a dick" to generalize "my", "his", etc. The other similar terms are sufficient for anyone looking for the act, and this one was troll behaviour or fishing for credit per nom and asilvering. Jay 💬06:56, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Steel1943: as with "Suck a cock" above, Dick (slang) could very easily be expanded to cover "Suck a dick" as a derivation of the slang term (particularly given its generic use as a dismissive insult). BD2412T19:51, 11 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, this is more likely to refer to slang than a description of the action, per Steel1943. Not discussed at the slang article. Utopes(talk / cont)01:55, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Weak retarget to Cock (slang)#Cocksucker or Sexual slang#Pejorative usage as they cover the insult meaning though they don't precisely mention the phrase. The former is the closest semantically, the latter covers how the phrase is used. No objection to deletion, but these redirects should be considered as a way to prevent spam recreation if this comes up again. Maybe salting outright is necessary, but I haven't seen many discussions that result in salting. ⇌Synpath18:00, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Thoughts on the page history? Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit14:41, 17 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
originally created as what i'll just assume was homework, the target doesn't seem to do much to actually provide a solid answer for what's the oldest pyramid overall, but everything seems to point to that being the pyramid of djoser. whether or not that would be a good target is beyond me, though, as that article makes no effort to directly claim it's the oldest pyramid in the world, being content with just stating that it's the oldest pyramid in egypt consarn(grave)(obituary)18:52, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Retarget to the Step Pyramid of Djoser. It's well known as the first structure known as a pyramid (which the Mesopotamian ziggurats are not), even in children's books; I learnt the name of Imhotep as a child because a book had a few pages about the Step Pyramid because it was the first of the pyramids. Nyttend (talk) 21:57, 9 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It's well known as the first structure known as a pyramid (which the Mesopotamian ziggurats are not) Except that explicitly contradicts our own article on pyramids. I won't argue that Step Pyramid of Djoser was the first Egyptian pyramid, but that's running straight into both the "first doesn't necessarily mean oldest" and "pyramid doesn't necessarily mean Egyptian" issues. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 07:14, 11 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Just noting that if you google "first pyramid" (with quotes), all the results are about the Pyramid of Djoser, which is also the one I had in mind when seeing "1st pyramid". I don't think it's as contradictory to redirect there as the deletes have it. -- asilvering (talk) 23:28, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Agree with Lunamann's technicality, but weak retarget to Djoser in the absence of any other article claiming to be the first pyramid, and the absence of an age-based list at Lists of pyramids. Jay 💬11:07, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Per the AfD, the #Defunct_stations section was supposed to be created, but closer WormEater13 didn't do that, and created the redirect to the non-existing section. Options include - create the section now, or restore and add a mergeto tag, or ping all AfD participants for a proper close. Jay 💬04:01, 12 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete seems to be de facto result now. The AFD closed to retarget pending a mention at the target, and there is no mention at the target. Gotta stop this spinning wheel of XFD avenues at some point. Steel1943 (talk) 22:40, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Note: Bundled Vict. 1 due to the similarity. 35.139.154.158 (talk) 16:13, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
Closed discussion, see full discussion. Result was: disambiguate
Closed discussion, see full discussion. Result was: delete
Closed discussion, see full discussion. Result was: retarget
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Relisted, see Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 August 26#Dead Nazi
Disambiguation draft requested Thepharoah17 (talk) 01:20, 23 August 2025 (UTC)
Comment: Perhaps there could be a tag for these akin to {{R from misspelling}} or perhaps an appropriate category already exists. I think this usage should be identified and removed from articles (fixed) and perhaps there's a better way to do this. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk 18:42, 12 August 2025 (UTC)
Agree --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk 18:09, 16 August 2025 (UTC)
Closed discussion, see full discussion. Result was: no consensus