December 31
This is a list of redirects that have been proposed for deletion or other action on December 31, 2009
Curse of 1969
The result of the discussion was
Delete as unopposed nomination ~
Amory (u • t • c) 05:40, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
[reply]
Article already nominated for deletion on Dec 13, 2008 [1], neither its current target nor an earlier target (Sports-related curses) make reference to it Me Three (talk to me) 13:33, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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'septu@dZInt
The result of the discussion was
delete.
Wizardman Operation Big Bear 05:30, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
[reply]
Implausible. — The Man in Question (in question) 11:25, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - Very implausible. Very strange, Lord Spongefrog, (I am Czar of all Russias!) 19:53, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Actually, I just realized it's in (inaccurate) SAMPA (accurate would be 'sEptu@dZInt). In which case, delete because SAMPA pronunciation is not a valid redirect (just as with all the IPA's below). — The Man in Question (in question) 19:59, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- SAMPA? Can't say I've heard of it, but my delete !vote still stands, per above reason, Lord Spongefrog, (I am Czar of all Russias!) 19:56, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- SAMPA is pretty much IPA with ordinary keyboard characters. — The Man in Question (in question) 22:15, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- dEl."i:t - unless we also have "baI.b@l and "dZi:zVs... --Jubilee♫clipman 19:35, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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'nunu 'aɫvɐɾɨʃ pɨ'ɾɐjɾɐ
The result of the discussion was
Delete ~
Amory (u • t • c) 05:31, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
[reply]
IPA pronunciation is not a valid redirect. — The Man in Question (in question) 11:18, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete. I agree with all these as well as virtually any IPA representation and wonder if we can treat this is a class action without having to include every instance explicitly. By sheer coincidence I came across one such article, ʁɛˈpublikɐ dɐ giˈnɛ biˈsau → Guinea-Bissau (not listed above), an hour and a half after this Rfd was posted, and discovered that User:Joseph_Solis_in_Australia had created a bunch of them. I started putting db-r3 on some until I realized that db-r3 requires recent creation and also discovered this Rfd, so I've reverted those. I think it would be unusual for anyone to try to look up information using IPA renderings, especially given that no one would expect articles to be findable this way, and that expectation is realistic given that almost no article is. This argument is a bit circular, but there you are. —Largo Plazo (talk) 12:46, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Note that an IPA representation isn't helpful anyway unless the person looking up the word has the same pronunciation for it, the same accent, as was assumed by the person creating the redirect. —Largo Plazo (talk) 13:10, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete as per above. Implausible, if not impossible, to type. Me Three (talk to me) 17:04, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - What would possess someone to type IPA pronunciations when searching for something. Unless...are there keyboards using solely IPA characters? In that case it...no, no, ignore that, that's ridiculous. Delete, Lord Spongefrog, (I am Czar of all Russias!) 19:57, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete all per all above. Completely useless redirects. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 06:08, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Dɪ'liːt as per all above, and that redirects from non-English alphabets should be used with care (even from other Latin alphabets with diacritics), and not mindlessly applied to any article one fancies. While I can see that it might be useful, for example, to redirect the names of Russian or Georgian or Serbian places from their equivalents in the Cyrillic alphabet, I can't see that it would be useful to redirect the names of Chinese foodstuffs in the Arabic alphabet, or whatever. It is a short step from that to becoming a (poor quality) translating dictionary. Si Trew (talk) 01:35, 4 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - anyone feel like attempting to writing ʁepʊ'bliːk ˌøːstə'ʁaɪç rather than Austria? Nope, didn't think so... --Jubilee♫clipman 19:23, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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'erbal essence
'fish out of wate
'Zig'
The result of the discussion was
delete.
Wizardman Operation Big Bear 05:33, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
[reply]
No mention in target article + needless apostrophes. Not worth retargeting because of apostrophes. — The Man in Question (in question) 11:04, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete as per above Me Three (talk to me) 17:09, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - I did a Google search, and found that "ZIG" is some sort of starfighter in the video game Zero Wing. (see Zero Wing#Gameplay, it says "The player, a "ZIG" star fighter, has several ways to attack:"). But the apostraphes are needless. Searching Zig (without apostraphes) will bring up a DAB page, where Zero Wing will be suggested. This leads me to believe that the apostraphes were inserted to get round the already existing article, and create a redirect to zero wing. Did anyone understand a word of that? I'm not good with words, Lord Spongefrog, (I am Czar of all Russias!) 20:05, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per all. Incidentally, I believe "zig" is or was mentioned in the quote section of the article... but the apostrophes are silly --Thinboy00 @066, i.e. 00:35, 4 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Retarget to the same disambig as zig (or leave alone and put a hatnote on the All your base article): In the original text (see my link above), "zig" is always surrounded by apostrophes. --Thinboy00 @074, i.e. 00:46, 4 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - could just as easily redirect to Zig and Zag. --Jubilee♫clipman 19:13, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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'The Well' created by Melvin Burgess
The result of the discussion was
delete.
Wizardman Operation Big Bear 05:34, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
[reply]
Implausible redirect. — The Man in Question (in question) 10:50, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete unlikely search term for title and author Me Three (talk to me) 17:09, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - This article was originally named "The Well created by Melvin Burgess", as can be seen from the history. It was moved to the current title by User:PhilKnight, and so a redirect was born. Lord Spongefrog, (I am Czar of all Russias!) 20:09, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep Harmless, use of single quotation marks might make sense in some bizarre dialect of English, redirects are cheap, this one is logical, etc. --Thinboy00 @067, i.e. 00:36, 4 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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'The Web'
The result of the discussion was
delete.
Wizardman Operation Big Bear 05:35, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
[reply]
No mention in target article. Use of apostrophes makes it unworthy of retargeting. — The Man in Question (in question) 10:49, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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'The Great White Hope'.
'The Godfather 1901-1959: The Complete Epic''
The result of the discussion was
speedy delete.
Shubinator (
talk) 20:50, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
[reply]
Implausible search term. The final two characters are two apostrophes, not a quotation mark. As can be seen above, it is not even possible to link without special syntax. — The Man in Question (in question) 10:12, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete as per above Me Three (talk to me) 17:09, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete. My apologies. I made an error when I created this redirect, which should certainly be deleted. I should have figured out how to tag it to get it deleted. Thanks for your attentiveness! Cheers, Easchiff (talk) 18:26, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Speedy Delete - Does WP:G7 apply here? Lord Spongefrog, (I am Czar of all Russias!) 20:12, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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'One'
The result of the discussion was
delete.
Wizardman Operation Big Bear 05:36, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
[reply]
One is far too broad a word to redirect to National Express East Anglia, and with the inclusion of apostrophes it is not worth retargeting to 1 (number) or One (disambiguation). — The Man in Question (in question) 09:54, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete The term "one"can mean anything Secret Saturdays (talk to me) 16:26, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete as per above. Better to add as a link to the One page, if at all Me Three (talk to me) 17:09, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Note. "one" (my quotes, their lowercase) was the operating name for National Express East Anglia, the train franchise for where I live, until they realised their silliness when making station announcements for "the one train to King's Cross" (the one and only?), "the next departure on platform one is the eight twenty one train" (what time does it leave?), and similar ambiguities. Si Trew (talk) 01:47, 4 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- The name as they rendered it, yes (—and interesting!). But the actual grammatical name was One (capitalized), as English grammar dictates. — the Man in Question (in question) 20:02, 4 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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'New Year's Day' observed
Division of Thai music
J. Invest. Dermatol.