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This is a list of redirects that have been proposed for deletion or other action on May 28, 2008

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Asset Voting → Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Asset voting

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The result of the debate was delete now that the AfD has been closed. I don't think we want to start seeing these type of redirects pop up for every AfD, that would create some very bad precedent to keep thousands of similar redirects. VegaDark (talk) 17:59, 6 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please see Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Asset voting. This was made to facilitate some off-site canvassing. Probably not very fair, and I don't know that this redirect helps us. rootology (T) 23:22, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Rootology. I think that maybe we shouldn't tag redirects the same way as articles. But I can see arguments both ways. --Abd (talk) 02:09, 29 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep.:This is totally out of order. First of all, there is a claim of "off-site canvassing," apparently based purely on speculation as to what was sent to a mailing list, not trusting that the mention of the AfD was neutral. The announcement on the list was rigorously neutral, the list is not an advocacy or biased list, but is one which has many experts as subscribers. The purpose in posting the announcement was to allow an audience of experts to see the article itself and the AfD, and the message cautioned against voting just to vote. The only reason Rootology even knew about the email message was that, as usual, when I've notified some group of Wikipedia process, I note it on the relevant page. Why the Redirect? Well, in the email voting was incorrectly capitalized. The easiest and simplest way to fix this is with a redirect, one which does no harm at all (unless allowing a reader to reach the page they want to see is "harm"). If the email was improper, that could be mentioned in the AfD as canvassing often is. In creating this RfD, Rootology broke the Redirect, which he had commented out. I fixed it by placing the RfD material below the redirect and removing the #. To allow what he did is to essentially remove the redirect without discussion. The question of the redirect is not about canvassing. The question is whether or not a person is likely to be searching for the actual AfD and uses this mispelling for some reason. With this RfD, we are now wasting more editor time, and making more fuss. The alleged canvass was neutral, and nothing has been cited or shown to the contrary, so removing the redirect, and that is what the notice did, could look like an attempt to bias the AfD by placing an obstacle to finding it. Given how valuable editor time is and how harmless the redirect is, this should be speedy closed. (someone might read that mailing list post years from now (the archives are googleable) and wonder, what was that about?, and follow the link. What will they find? Shouldn't they find the AfD?).--Abd (talk) 23:56, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the speedy tag, as the redirect was evidently intentionally created and so the criterion does not really apply. If the creator decides to agree to deletion, he may of course tag it ((Db-G7)). --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:45, 29 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
There was indeed a post to a mailing list that is archived and google-indexed. Here is the message:[1]. (Those who claimed it was canvassing did so at a point where they were speculating on what the message was. There will be some clicks, could be years from now. If it weren't a mailing list, I'd have fixed it. (I did sent a message noting the spelling error, but, especially later, that message might not be seen. On the other hand, the correction is the very next message in the archive, so it might be seen.)--Abd (talk) 03:36, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
That would only happen if we change our naming conventions. And, in this case, someone looking at the incorrect address would see the new AfD, for even more confusion. The redirect being there will signal to whoever creates the AfD page that the other name exists, so it can be sorted out. So this is actually an argument to keep the redirect.--Abd (talk) 03:36, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
You misunderstand- let me make a hypothetical situation. A couple of years from now, someone makes an article about a company, book, etc. that uses a capital letter on the second word. I've checked to see if an article has old AfDs by typing "en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_for_deletion/article" in my address bar. Somebody does that for this article, and hits the AfD, and doesn't notice the "redirected from" or case of the letter "v". Now they're thinking that the newer article was AfDed, and if they didn't see the discrepancy, is posting at village pump, editor assistance, or otherwise, asking why there's an AfD without a deletion in the log; or, if it's kept, how the AfD is older than the article. It would just be confusion, and once the AfD ends, wouldn't have much of a use. JeremyMcCracken (talk) (contribs) 04:40, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I certainly don't want to tendentiously argue. I agree that there is a very small chance of confusion from this, but think that the confusion would easily be resolved. I.e. the user would try to create the AfD on "Asset Voting" and would find the Redirect, which would point to the existing AfD, which obviously is about a different subject. So the *situation* would be clear to anyone with a clue as to how the wiki functions. They would look at the Redirect. And we could put a note after the redirect, right on the page, why it is there. Classic solution here would be disambiguation, I think. But look at the probabilities: there would have to be a book or some other proper noun, "Asset Voting." The chance of that is very, very small, probably will never happen -- though I wish it would! -- and if so, by that time, we might need a disambiguation page anyway. Second possibility is to just name the new Afd with (2nd). Harmless. There would be a note in the AfD that the prior AfD was about a different subject. So, on the one hand, a speculation that there might be a moment of confusion for a relatively experienced user, vs. what I see as almost certain confusion for quite a few probably inexperienced users. How many, I don't know, but because I think this is going to be a rising topic, given recent books and internet discussion, it could be hundreds or thousands. Having thought about it this much, now, I've become far firmer on Keep. Your call, folks. By the way, sorry for making the error in the first place! But I had no idea that someone would propose the redirect for deletion! (He later realized it was a mistake, hence his withdrawal of the nomination above.)--Abd (talk) 14:48, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The above is preserved as the archive of a RfD nomination. Please do not modify it.

WikiProject → Wikipedia:WikiProject

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The result of the debate was No consensus (keep). -- JLaTondre (talk) 14:10, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProjectWikipedia:WikiProject
WikiProjectsWikipedia:WikiProject
WikiProject:WikiProjects → Wikipedia:WikiProject Council
WikiProject Council → Wikipedia:WikiProject Council
WikiProject Artix Entertainment → Wikipedia:WikiProject Artix Entertainment
Wikiproject:Artix Entertainment → Wikipedia:WikiProject Artix Entertainment
WikiProject Xbox → Wikipedia:WikiProject Xbox
WikiProject Xbox 360 → Wikipedia:WikiProject Xbox
WikiProject:Birds → Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds
WikiProject:Comics → Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics
WikiProject:Films → Wikipedia:WikiProject Films
WikiProject:League of Copyeditors → Wikipedia:WikiProject League of Copyeditors
WikiProject:Marsupials → Wikipedia:WikiProject Monotremes and Marsupials
WikiProject:PlayStation → Wikipedia:WikiProject PlayStation
WikiProject:Social media → Wikipedia:WikiProject Social media
WikiProject:Userbox migration → Wikipedia:WikiProject Userbox Migration
WikiProject: United States presidential elections → Wikipedia:WikiProject United States presidential elections
WikiProject Auckland → Wikipedia:WikiProject Auckland
WikiProject Bible → Wikipedia:WikiProject Bible
WikiProject CSI franchise → Wikipedia:WikiProject CSI franchise
WikiProject G.I. Joe → Wikipedia:WikiProject G.I. Joe
WikiProject Homeschooling → Wikipedia:WikiProject Homeschooling
WikiProject Hungary → Wikipedia:WikiProject Hungary
WikiProject Jewish history → Wikipedia:WikiProject Jewish history
WikiProject Missouri → Wikipedia:WikiProject Missouri
WikiProject New Zealand → Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand
WikiProject:WikiProject Chaotic/Participants → Wikipedia:WikiProject Chaotic/Participants
WikiProject Novels/Peer review/Grey Griffins/archive1 → Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Peer review/Grey Griffins
WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 1, Issue 1 - July 2007 → Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/Newsletter/July 2007

Similarly to the redirects previously deleted at Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2008_May_10#Cross-namespace_redirects_to_WikiProjects, these are another batch of cross-namespace redirects to WikiProjects from article space. The same argument applies: because of the automatic redirection from WP: to Wikipedia, and the autosuggestion feature recently added to the search box, these sort of redirects are no longer necessary to find WikiProjects. As they are unneeded cross-namespace redirects, they ought to be deleted. Gavia immer (talk) 19:59, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • I see that you've linked a shortcut, but I'm not sure what that demonstrates -- I'm not asking whether these two discussions are coming out differently, but why they so directly contradict each other. When two discussions produce such vastly different results simply because a different group of Wikipedians was randomly selected, the implication doesn't seem to be that consensus has changed but rather that it may not have existed to begin with. Perhaps the issue needs wider discussion, lest we continue to make these deletion debates random dice rolls. – Luna Santin (talk) 02:09, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The amount of typing isn't the issue at hand, it's the convenience and ease of use for users. The point of redirects are to help users who accidentally type the wrong thing- which all of the above redirects are for. Alinnisawest (talk) 02:20, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The above is preserved as the archive of a RfD nomination. Please do not modify it.

Wikipedia:DRAMAWikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents

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The result of the debate was keep, no consensus to retarget. VegaDark (talk) 17:59, 6 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It seems inappropriate to me. It doesn't seem to have any use other than as a dismissive or mean comment on someone's actions ("He's just creating WP:DRAMA by reporting me") or as a joke. The first is uncivil, the second is inappropriate as I don't believe joke redirects should point to serious pages. Finally, it trivializes WP:AN/I...I'm sure there are a lot of people who bitch and moan about stupidity there, but AN/I is a very important page, and I think people need to know they can go there if they need to, lodge a complaint, and it will be taken seriously...redirects like this one hinder that. There has to be a better target for this redirect. UsaSatsui (talk) 17:19, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The above is preserved as the archive of a RfD nomination. Please do not modify it.

Johannes Kepler University of LinzJohannes Kepler University Linz

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The result of the debate was Speedy close - this should be discussed on the talk page(s) of the pages in question, there is no need for an RfD discussion. Non-admin closure. RichardΩ612 Ɣ ɸ 19:03, May 28, 2008 (UTC)

Should not contain a redirect but rather the actual content of the article, see discussion at Talk:Johannes Kepler University Linz. Alib (talk) 13:20, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The above is preserved as the archive of a RfD nomination. Please do not modify it.