This is a list of redirects that have been proposed for deletion or other action on July 17, 2019.
USSR 2
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The result of the discussion was delete. With a relist not generating any new participation and nobody holding a particularly strong opinion, I think it's time to take an executive decision. I see the consensus here is that the Russian equivalent of this abbreviation seems to consistently (but not officially) refer to the redirect target, but the English abbreviation doesn't have a consistent target and a few competing topics were presented. So I'm closing this as a rough consensus to delete. Deryck C. 17:52, 25 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I get the connection, but this plan was never referred to as USSR 2 signed, Rosguilltalk 17:53, 8 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I could've sworn I've seen this project mentioned as “СССР-2” in some Russian-language sources, but I can't find them now. I have nothing against deleting it. Dr. Fatman (talk) 11:57, 9 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
On the Russian Wikipedia, "СССР 2.0" redirects to their article for the Union of Sovereign States, though it doesn't seem to be used in the article. Not having known about the Union before, I might've expected this to go to Commonwealth of Independent States, but there doesn't seem to be any warrant for that. --BDD (talk) 15:11, 9 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Retarget President Snowflake to Snowflake (slang) as there is a special section about the politicization of the term. Delete the rest as not used. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 21:22, 8 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all. I have no objection to President Snowflake being retargeted as suggested above, but the history should be deleted first (may qualify for WP:CSD#G10 as exisiting solely for the purpose of disparaging a living person). Gnome de plume (talk) 15:19, 9 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Thryduulf: lol yeah that's what I meant. Don't know what happened there to me. I couldn't words right probably.. –MJL‐Talk‐☖ 20:15, 14 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Fuck a duck
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Keep per [2], [3], [4], and [5]. There are plenty of books with this phrase and it is used in current lingo. AmericanAir88(talk) 20:32, 15 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for providing sources. Based on your sources, it seems to me it would preferably be retargeted to a nonexistent article about List of expletives in the English language or similar. As it currently stands, no one searching "fuck a duck" would be hoping to simply be redirect to the "fuck" page, especially since there is no mention of the phrase in the target article. Therefore I still favor a delete, as a form of deletion to encourage article creation. — the Man in Question(in question) 20:56, 15 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@The Man in Question: I see where you are getting from, but deletion does not seem to encourage creation. Deletion shows users that the page has been created and been removed. This phrase is common within our crazy modern society and wikipedia adjusts to lingo changes. We will see how this turns out, I do see your point. AmericanAir88(talk) 21:04, 15 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Soft redirect to Wiktionary wikt:fuck a duck where interested readers can find lexical information about the term. There isn't at present any encyclopaedic information about it on Wikipedia, but if that changes the soft redirect can be revisited. Thryduulf (talk) 21:17, 15 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Delete per WP:NOTSLANG. The sources that AmericanAir88 identified above enforces that this will likely never go beyond a dictionary definition.—Bagumba (talk) 20:30, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
But the stats show that many people look for it on Wikipedia, so we should provide them with a link to the dictionary entry on Wiktionary via a soft redirect. Thryduulf (talk) 09:56, 25 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Soft redirect to Wiktionary. On second look, fits criteria at WP:POINTWIKT (part of policy NOTSLANG) and documentation at ((Wiktionary redirect)). Thanks Thryduulf for the slight nudge.—Bagumba (talk) 10:06, 25 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Air pollution in Iran
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No related content on target page (was removed in November 2015) Dawnseeker2000 05:14, 9 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Note – the target section was removed a while back in this huge uncommented deletion. Maybe that material should be restored? Or some of it? Dicklyon (talk) 06:17, 9 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The content was split off as Health in Iran, presumably because this is not closely related enough to the intended topic. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 14:59, 9 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Environmental issues in Iran is the more natural target IMO (note that its See also section includes this redirect). The article needs a lot of work, but puts a lot of emphasis on air pollution. --BDD (talk) 18:57, 9 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Retarget to Health in Iran#Air pollution per Ivanvector. The other article has less content and only mentions air pollution in passing, so a redirect there makes less sense. Both articles link to each other in any case. PC78 (talk) 21:36, 11 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Il Talismino
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The result of the discussion was no consensus. This is problematic, because the redirect was never tagged. As of this writing, it still points to The Talisman (ballet), though the nomination suggests it points to the disambiguation page Il talismano. This made it difficult for me to assess the non-delete votes, though by no fault of those voters. For now, I'll have it pointing to the disambiguation page, which I've improved a bit. Let the dust settle, and reapproach if necessary. --BDD (talk) 18:57, 5 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Procedually, the nomination is problematic. This used to redirect to The Talisman (ballet), until nominator In ictu oculi had blanked it at 09:13, 9 July 2019 (UTC), before this nomination (09:17). Smjg reverted it back at 15:00, 9 July (UTC).[6] As far as I can see, it's never been targeted to Il talismano as stated in the nomination. As far as the real target of The Talisman, it looks it might be translated from Italian.[7] As the composer was Italian Riccardo Drigo, it seems that WP:R#DELETE No. 8 does not apply: In particular, redirects from a foreign language title to a page whose subject is unrelated to that language (or a culture that speaks that language) should generally not be created.It talismano was at "The Talisman (ballet)" until it was removed by In ictu oculi at 09:21, 9 July (UTC), after this nomination. At worst , redirect to Il talismano for disambiguation. A one-letter misspelling is not implausible.—Bagumba (talk) 13:01, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
10:19, 7 December 2006 Mrlopez2681 Redirected page to The Talisman (ballet). Can you please link to the policy that supports a one-off Wikipedia editor misspelling of an Italian word being preserved for "keep". This was clearly created in error, a repeat of that one-letter misspelling is totally implausible. We have here a simple i/a error on a single bad link from 2006 in a single article. A Google Book check confirms that this an unlikely error - evidenced by the fact it has not been repeated - I am not aware of any policy or guideline that we are obliged to preserve unlikely spelling errors. It was made in 2006, it went unspotted, but why do we now in 2019 need a redirect from a one off misspelling of a rare Italian word to anywhere? In ictu oculi (talk) 16:14, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The fact that a misspelling is not found in books is proof that a human won't misspell it in a search window? Good night.—Bagumba (talk) 16:32, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Yes. In fact the autocomplete function of top right search box is more likely to cause a mispelling. In ictu oculi (talk) 20:05, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I've left notification with the redirect's creator, Mrlopez2681, regarding this RfD (though they edit irregularly).—Bagumba (talk) 16:41, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Retarget to Il talismano. There is a bit of usage in the wild, including [8][9], and it's doing no harm. --Tavix(talk) 18:00, 4 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Long Thai name of Bangkok
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The result of the discussion was no consensus. I believe only the initial redirect was tagged. If any others are, you can let me know or remove them yourself. --BDD (talk) 15:39, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
A redirect that was generated by a bot more than ten years ago which has never been linked to. The only probable use would be in the search box, but even the spelling is not the most well-known; that would be "Krung thep mahanakhon amon rattanakosin mahinthara ayuthaya mahadilok phop noppharat ratchathani burirom udomratchaniwet mahasathan amon piman awatan sathit sakkathattiya witsanukam prasit". See the Wiktionary talk page on: Talk:Unsupported_titles/Thai_name_of_Bangkok. ««« SOMEGADGETGEEK »»» (talk) 18:53, 27 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. The redirect is listed as ((same name with diacritics)) lol. signed, Rosguilltalk 18:57, 27 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Keep all It's the historical, ceremonial name as described at Bangkok#Name. Granted, there's multiple variants because there are many forms of Thai romanization. And people cut and paste these days, moreso than typing manually. It justs looks silly if a modernized encyclopedia couldn't recognize such a name, esp. if it's a conscious decision regarding a non-Western country.Redirects are cheap!—Bagumba (talk) 21:56, 9 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete It does not serve any purpose to have this as an article name. No one will ever type it. Any search for a part of it will find the right target. −Woodstone (talk) 11:02, 10 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per all of the above and how we have frequently treated long redirects in the past here. UnitedStatesian (talk) 21:48, 10 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all Extremely long redirects are defeating the point of a redirect, which is to be something that would plausibly be typed in the search box.ZXCVBNM (TALK) 22:47, 10 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep all - arguments about being a valid search term are invalid. As I understand it these redirects are correct, excepting that some may be ((R without diacritics)) which is still a valid and useful category of redirect, and if someone does type it, they'll be taken to the subject they're looking for. There is no reason at all to remove valid encyclopedic information just because some in the west find it unsightly. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:50, 12 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep all per Ivanvector and Bagumba. Lack of links from current revisions of pages on the English Wikipedia (the only thing whatlinkshere shows) is explicitly not a reason to delete a redirect. Being typed into the search box is not the only reason for a redirect to exist. Thryduulf (talk) 15:49, 15 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep all mainly per Ivanvector and Bagumba. It's not implausible that someone might find the full name and google it. And if you google it, the first link is actually one to the redirect. So it might be useful for people not using the search box but a search engine and that is all WP:R#KEEP requires. Regards SoWhy 19:53, 16 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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The others are variant Romanizations. They are plausible search terms, but not worth repeating in prose (esp. at that length).—Bagumba (talk) 20:34, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. If we have an article on a subject that has an official name, that official name always needs to be a working page. Maybe it's the article's name, or maybe it's the name of another article that's the primary use, or maybe it's a disambiguation page, or maybe it's a redirect to the article that goes by some other form of the name. But the important thing is that we should never convert such a page into a redlink unless we're deleting the article itself or unless there's been a mistake and the claimed full name isn't. See WP:NOTPAPER; this is a great example of a useful redirect (long full name) that wouldn't be worth printing as a "redirect" in a printed book. Nyttend (talk) 01:50, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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The result of the discussion was delete. --BDD (talk) 15:37, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Misleading disambiguator, the target is an organization associated with software, but it is not itself software. signed, Rosguilltalk 16:25, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Gulel (film)
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The result of the discussion was delete. — JJMC89 (T·C) 09:05, 27 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Not mentioned in the target article now (and neither at the time of creation of the redirect). Apparently, Gulel was an early working title of Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (at least that's what an earlier version of the article suggests), but a google search (admittedly a very perfunctory one) didn't come up with any reliable sources making the connection. – Uanfala (talk) 12:49, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I also couldn't find anything to support that connection. There are some sources from around 2003-2009 about an on/off Aparna Sen film project named Gulel, but with no mention in the target article I don't think this is a useful redirect. PC78 (talk) 19:56, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Bobby Jaffers
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The result of the discussion was delete. — JJMC89 (T·C) 09:05, 27 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Fictional character that isn't mentioned in any Wikipedia article. —Xezbeth (talk) 12:35, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Lay Phone
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The result of the discussion was delete. — JJMC89 (T·C) 09:05, 27 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think this is a plausible redirect or alternate form, and I think this form of the name is rather silly and thereby unencyclopedic. As such, and given the lack of substantial edit history, I believe this redirect should be deleted.– John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 05:06, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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