The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more redirects. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the redirect's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the discussion was Delete ((Cnproj)), ((Computers)) and ((Network)). Keep all others. Ruslik_Zero 15:52, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Template:Cnproj → Template:WikiProject Computing (links to redirect • history • stats)     [ Closure: keep/delete ] 
• Template:Network → Template:WikiProject Computing (links to redirect • history • stats)     [ Closure: keep/delete ]
• Template:Computers → Template:WikiProject Computing (links to redirect • history • stats)     [ Closure: keep/delete ]
• Template:WP Computers → Template:WikiProject Computing (links to redirect • history • stats)     [ Closure: keep/delete ]
• Template:WikiProject Information Technology → Template:WikiProject Computing (links to redirect • history • stats)     [ Closure: keep/delete ]
• Template:WP Database → Template:WikiProject Databases (links to redirect • history • stats)     [ Closure: keep/delete ]
• Template:WPDatabases → Template:WikiProject Databases (links to redirect • history • stats)     [ Closure: keep/delete ]

Deprecated, unused, and in some places misleading WikiProject template redirects, which make it harder for bots to correctly identify pages which use the WikiProject Computing template. Came up when planning the bot-work that will help merge Wikipedia:WikiProject Databases#Restructure_proposals as a task force. Pnm (talk) 18:14, 7 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete as useless. Probably qualify for G6 WP:SPEEDY criterion. BTW, how can something be both unused and misleading? — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 18:29, 7 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  You'd expect ((Network)) or ((Cnproj)) to do something networking-related, but they don't. They're not currently used, but the couple transclusions I adjusted didn't include the network parameter like they should. I think they'd be misleading if they were used. – Pnm (talk) 18:34, 7 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  I see. That sounds reasonable. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 18:44, 7 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment: I added two more. Same idea, different target. – Pnm (talk) 19:00, 7 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  My vote above still applies. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 17:39, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Template:WPDatabases, Template:WP Database, Template:WP Computers -- look like standard looking shortcuts to WPP banners that lots of projects have. And Template:Cnproj looks like a standard old-style shortcut to WPP banner. As there are people/bots that go around replacing the shortcuts with full banner names, you would only expect a few transclusions. 76.65.128.132 (talk) 09:34, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  Are they helpful though? It's as easy to type Template:WP Databases or Template:WP Computing which also redirect, and I'm not requesting to delete those. – Pnm (talk) 17:27, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

   

  Don't think it's a good reason to have them. There is no big deal to open the projects' pages and see what are the actual names, but this amount of redirects create a mess that one will have to cope with in future, and it just doesn't worth such struggle. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 17:39, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment the WPDB merger as a task force has not yet gone through, so shouldn't we just wait for that to happen? 76.65.128.132 (talk) 09:35, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  My merge-related reasoning is moot: as it turns out the bots can cope with these redirects just fine. However, the remaining reasons to keep or delete these shortcut-variant redirects are unrelated to the outcome of that merge discussion. – Pnm (talk) 17:27, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page.

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more redirects. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the redirect's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the discussion was Delete. Ruslik_Zero 08:24, 16 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Vikki Williams → Cool World (links to redirect • history • stats)     [ Closure: keep/delete ] 

Delete: Williams is listed nowhere on the page. Originally she was listed in the infobox as a Producer. Her IMDb profile credits her as Associate Producer and somewhere along the line she was removed from the infobox. This redirect is worthless. ZeroMercury (talk) 00:14, 7 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page.