October 12

This is a list of redirects that have been proposed for deletion or other action on October 12, 2018.

Vegas (TV show)

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 retarget to Vegas (disambiguation)#Television. -- Patar knight - chat/contributions 20:59, 19 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion desired. More than one TV series had the title "Vegas", including Vegas (1978 TV series). 2600:1008:B007:EBC6:3C01:9E98:9935:7F8B (talk) 23:25, 12 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Whitelash

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 retarget to White backlash. -- Patar knight - chat/contributions 05:44, 20 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

G5, created by blocked sock User:Sagecandor. Also judging by the page views it is not a useful soft redirect. PackMecEng (talk) 22:44, 12 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Thryduulf: The page views dropped dramatically because it was a news item when created at the time that has largely died out. With a continued trend downwards. Also it was created by a sock, an account that should of been blocked on creation, it just took a while to catch them. G5 is appropriate for sock puppets. Finally the term came to prominence when Van Jones used it when describing Trump's election, so it could fall under their topic ban since they could not create it under his main account. PackMecEng (talk) 13:59, 13 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
G5 only applies to content created in violation of a block or ban, which this was not - there are many legitimate uses for sockpuppets (WP:SOCKLEGIT) so the use of one is not automatically a blocking offence. Just because someone used a term in connection with a person (let alone a person's election) does not make that term a biography. So what if the page views are declining? It is still evidently a useful search term. Thryduulf (talk) 15:13, 13 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
While there are legit socks, this was unambiguously not that. Again if they tried to make this on their main account they would of been blocked as a violation of their topic ban. So yes, it is content created in violation of a topic ban. Declining page views indicate less usefulness, and largely not a search term that is needed. Since this was a flash in the pan news item of the day there is no reason to expect a continued decline in it's already questionable usefulness. PackMecEng (talk) 15:25, 13 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I have already explained why this is both useful and not a violation of the topic ban. I shall refrain from doing so again as it seems unlikely to be productive. Thryduulf (talk) 16:30, 13 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The topic ban speaks for itself "his edits introduce to the articles material about politics or religion or social controversy". This term easily fits political and social controversy. It was done by an account created to evade that topic ban as documented above. It is unfortunate that we do not agree, so I will leave it there with you as well. Thanks for your input. PackMecEng (talk) 17:36, 13 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The topic ban was for "biographies" so that's what he was banned from, and only that. If he used this redirect inappropriately that would be a different matter, but it still wouldn't make the creation of the redirect a violation of the ban. Thryduulf (talk) 19:10, 15 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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White power sign

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 keep. Refine to OK (gesture)#Pranks (non-admin closure) feminist (talk) 15:30, 20 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The "OK" sign is not, in fact, a white power sign; rather that was a hoax spread by 4chan which succeeded temporarily. The article does have content discussing the hoax, but in my opinion that isn't reason enough to have a context-free redirect like this which might be taken to suggest that the "OK" gesture actually is a white power sign. 50.248.234.77 (talk) 20:50, 12 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently it is, but AFAIK the point of redirects is to direct people to a specific article where they can read about the term, in this case - that it was all a hoax. Redirects are not supposed to equate the two terms. Anyway, the results of this discussion should also affect White power hand sign since it was the other redirect I created together with the one you specified. Openlydialectic (talk) 22:09, 12 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I've added that page to the nomination; thank you for pointing it out. 50.248.234.77 (talk) 23:02, 12 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Willl and grace

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 no consensus. This is an incredibly marginal case of whether the typo was plausible enough. Some argued that this is a plausible typo with an unambiguous target, and the hit rate is high enough to merit a redirect; others argued that the typo was too implausible and the hit rate isn't high enough. I don't see a consensus in either direction, but no demonstration of overwhelming harm either, so I'm closing this as "no consensus, default to keep". Deryck C. 13:04, 22 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not a plausible typo Reyk YO! 14:05, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: recent comments show this discussion is still ongoing
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, -- Tavix (talk) 15:25, 12 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Warfist

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2018 October 22#Warfist

Lutz Ebersdorf

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 Withdrawn. No point in leaving this open any more. (non-admin closure) IffyChat -- 14:07, 15 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Tilda Swinton has admitted that she was Lutz Ebersdorf (see e.g. [2]), opening an RFD to determine whether this should be retargetted to Tilda Swinton or kept as it is. Currently neutral on the outcome. IffyChat -- 14:41, 12 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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.app

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 Procedural close. The redirect has been converted to a disambiguation page so is no longer in RfD's scope. Thryduulf (talk) 16:44, 12 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
This should probably go to a disambiguation page. Since the last discussion on this redirect, the .app domain was launched, and .app is also used extensively by macOS.
Previous RfDs for this redirect and similar redirects:
Taras (talk) 13:02, 12 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Tropical Storm Wila(1988)

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2018 October 20#Tropical Storm Wila(1988)