March 18

This is a list of redirects that have been proposed for deletion or other action on March 18, 2011

Nguyen Van Hung (athlete)

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The result of the discussion was nomination withdrawn. Rossami (talk) 06:51, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: The disambiguator (athlete) refers specifically to track and field athletes—participants in other sports are disambiguated using the name of the specific sport—so this is not an appropriate redirect for a martial artist. Additionally, the two current article-space incoming links refer to a Vietnamese triple jumper, so deleting this redirect would create a useful red link. ShelfSkewed Talk 20:50, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Dittmannsdorf

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The result of the discussion was Delete. Ruslik_Zero 10:17, 1 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

wrong redirect because wrong town 77.235.181.33 (talk) 15:55, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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User:*Kat*/sandbox

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The result of the discussion was speedily deleted as it's in userspace. Next time, you can just tag it with ((db-u1)). ···日本穣? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WikiProject Japan! 16:24, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Because I use this sandbox for other things....and because while today was the first time I've forgotten that it redirected to a for-real article, it probably won't be the last. *Kat* (meow?) 06:24, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Cairo Intercontinental Hotel

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The result of the discussion was Delete. Ruslik_Zero 10:24, 1 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not needed, possible misleading. IQinn (talk) 04:54, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Tunisian guest house, Afghanistan

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The result of the discussion was Delete. Ruslik_Zero 10:20, 1 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not needed. IQinn (talk) 04:47, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Egyptian guesthouse

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The result of the discussion was speedy deleted WP:CSD#G7 at author request. JohnCD (talk) 16:59, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

General term that should either be deleted or redirected to an Egypt related article. IQinn (talk) 04:36, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Wang-t'an-shih

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The result of the discussion was Retarget to Wang Tanzhi as suggested. Ruslik_Zero 10:29, 1 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: "Wang-t'an-shih", which is Wade-Giles for "Wangtan Shi", or Wangtan City, implies that this Wangtan is a city, when it is in fact a town (王坛镇; Wangtan Zhen). See this link, if you can read Chinese. HXL's Roundtable and Record 02:50, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

  • Not in China is the distinction between city and town arbitrary. The Chinese terms should be very clear in this case (镇 vs. 市). Not translating correctly would do a flagrant injustice to the native name. As any 市 (city), 镇 (town), or 村 (village) can be mentioned without those respective terms, the potential for falsification, like the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency does, arises. And, per WP:BALL, we should not be predicting that this town will ever grow to such size that is called a "市" in Chinese. Lastly, I haven't even mentioned that there are certain standards on which a regular prefecture needs to become a prefecture-level city.--HXL's Roundtable and Record 05:09, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Regarding your search, as I was writing 王坦之 in the search-bar of my Chrome browser, there was indeed an autofill suggestion, which implies that this official does have some notability. Indeed, there even is an article on the Chinese Wikipedia on him. In light of this, I still oppose any hatnote or mention of Wangtan Town on the new biography. That would be an outright factual inaccuracy. And finally, though you have stalled me twice, I thank you for the suggestion. --HXL's Roundtable and Record 05:17, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Retarget to new article, Wang Tanzhi (王坦之), per Rossami's suggestion and my arguments on the distinction between "city" and "town" in China. --HXL's Roundtable and Record 05:17, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A retarget would be fine, provided a stub is created first. 65.95.13.139 (talk) 13:02, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • comment the new article was created, can someone retarget this to the new article and close this? 65.93.12.101 (talk) 12:47, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
It is procedural bad practise to remove the RFD template of a nominated re-direct when the corresponding RFD has not been closed. --HXL's Roundtable and Record 13:56, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
This is an expired RFD (it timed out on the 25th of March), therefore someone uninvolved (ie, not you or me) can process the redirect and close the discussion. 65.93.12.101 (talk) 18:58, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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