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Redirects for discussion (RfD) is the place where potentially problematic redirects are discussed. Items usually stay listed for a week or so, after which they are deleted, kept, or retargeted.
- If you want to replace an unprotected redirect with an article, do not list it here. Turning redirects into articles is wholly encouraged. Be bold!
- If you want to move a page but a redirect is in the way, do not list it here. For non-controversial cases, place a technical request; if a discussion is required, then start a requested move.
- If you think a redirect points to the wrong target article, this is a good place to discuss the proper target.
- Redirects should not be deleted just because they have no incoming links. Please do not use this as the only reason to delete a redirect. However, redirects that do have incoming links are sometimes deleted, so that is not a sufficient condition for keeping. (See § When should we delete a redirect? for more information.)
Please do not unilaterally rename or change the target of a redirect while it is under discussion. This adds unnecessary complication to the discussion for participants and closers.
Before listing a redirect for discussion
Please be aware of these general policies, which apply here as elsewhere:
- Wikipedia:Redirect – what redirects are, why they exist, and how they are used.
- Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion – which pages can be deleted without discussion; in particular the "General" and "Redirects" sections.
- Wikipedia:Deletion policy – how we delete things by consensus.
- Wikipedia:Guide to deletion – guidelines on discussion format and shorthand.
The guiding principles of RfD
- The purpose of a good redirect is to eliminate the possibility that readers will find themselves staring blankly at "Search results 1–10 out of 378" instead of the article they were looking for. If someone could plausibly enter the redirect's name when searching for the target article, it's a good redirect.
- Redirects are cheap. They take up little storage space and use very little bandwidth. It doesn't really hurt things if there are a few of them scattered around. On the flip side, deleting redirects is also cheap because recording the deletion takes up little storage space and uses very little bandwidth. There is no harm in deleting problematic redirects.
- If a good-faith RfD nomination proposes to delete a redirect and has no discussion after at least 7 days, the default result is delete.
- Redirects nominated in contravention of Wikipedia:Redirect will be speedily kept.
- RfD can also serve as a central discussion forum for debates about which page a redirect should target. In cases where retargeting the redirect could be considered controversial, it is advisable to leave a notice on the talk page of the redirect's current target page or the proposed target page to refer readers to the redirect's nomination to allow input and help form consensus for the redirect's target.
- Requests for deletion of redirects from one page's talk page to another's do not need to be listed here. Anyone can remove the redirect by blanking the page. The G6 criterion for speedy deletion may be appropriate.
- In discussions, always ask yourself whether or not a redirect would be helpful to the reader.
When should we delete a redirect?
This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Redirect/Deletion reasons. (edit | history) |
The major reasons why deletion of redirects is harmful are:
- a redirect may contain non-trivial edit history;
- if a redirect is reasonably old (or is the result of moving a page that has been there for quite some time), then it is possible that its deletion will break incoming links (such links coming from older revisions of Wikipedia pages, from edit summaries, from other Wikimedia projects or from elsewhere on the internet, do not show up in "What links here").
Therefore consider the deletion only of either harmful redirects or of recent ones.
Reasons for deleting
You might want to delete a redirect if one or more of the following conditions is met (but note also the exceptions listed below this list):
- The redirect page makes it unreasonably difficult for users to locate similarly named articles via the search engine. For example, if the user searches for "New Articles", and is redirected to a disambiguation page for "Articles", it would take much longer to get to the newly added articles on Wikipedia.
- The redirect might cause confusion. For example, if "Adam B. Smith" was redirected to "Andrew B. Smith", because Andrew was accidentally called Adam in one source, this could cause confusion with the article on Adam Smith, so the redirect should be deleted.
- The redirect is offensive or abusive, such as redirecting "Joe Bloggs is a Loser" to "Joe Bloggs" (unless "Joe Bloggs is a Loser" is legitimately discussed in the article), or "Joe Bloggs" to "Loser". (Speedy deletion criterion G10 and G3 may apply.) See also § Neutrality of redirects.
- The redirect constitutes self-promotion or spam. (Speedy deletion criterion G11 may apply.)
- The redirect makes no sense, such as redirecting "Apple" to "Orange". (Speedy deletion criterion G1 may apply.)
- It is a cross-namespace redirect out of article space, such as one pointing into the User or Wikipedia namespace. The major exception to this rule are the pseudo-namespace shortcut redirects, which technically are in the main article space. Some long-standing cross-namespace redirects are also kept because of their long-standing history and potential usefulness. "MOS:" redirects, for example, were an exception to this rule until they became their own namespace in 2024. (Note also the existence of namespace aliases such as WP:. Speedy deletion criterion R2 may apply if the target namespace is something other than Category:, Template:, Wikipedia:, Help:, or Portal:.)
- If the redirect is broken, meaning it redirects to an article that does not exist, it can be immediately deleted under speedy deletion criterion G8. You should check that there is not an alternative place it could be appropriately redirected to first and that it has not become broken through vandalism.
- If the redirect is a novel or very obscure synonym for an article name that is not mentioned in the target, it is unlikely to be useful. In particular, redirects in a language other than English to a page whose subject is unrelated to that language (or a culture that speaks that language) should generally not be created. (Implausible typos or misnomers are candidates for speedy deletion criterion R3, if recently created.)
- If the target article needs to be moved to the redirect title, but the redirect has been edited before and has a history of its own, then the title needs to be freed up to make way for the move. If the move is uncontroversial, tag the redirect for G6 speedy deletion, or alternatively (with the
suppressredirect
user right; available to page movers and admins), perform a round-robin move. If not, take the article to Requested moves. - If the redirect could plausibly be expanded into an article, and the target article contains virtually no information on the subject.
Reasons for not deleting
However, avoid deleting such redirects if:
- They have a potentially useful page history, or an edit history that should be kept to comply with the licensing requirements for a merge (see Wikipedia:Merge and delete). On the other hand, if the redirect was created by renaming a page with that name, and the page history just mentions the renaming, and for one of the reasons above you want to delete the page, copy the page history to the Talk page of the article it redirects to. The act of renaming is useful page history, and even more so if there has been discussion on the page name.
- They would aid accidental linking and make the creation of duplicate articles less likely, whether by redirecting a plural to a singular, by redirecting a frequent misspelling to a correct spelling, by redirecting a misnomer to a correct term, by redirecting to a synonym, etc. In other words, redirects with no incoming links are not candidates for deletion on those grounds because they are of benefit to the browsing user. Some extra vigilance by editors will be required to minimize the occurrence of those frequent misspellings in article text because the linkified misspellings will not appear as broken links; consider tagging the redirect with the {{R from misspelling}} template to assist editors in monitoring these misspellings.
- They aid searches on certain terms. For example, users who might see the "Keystone State" mentioned somewhere but do not know what that refers to will be able to find out at the Pennsylvania (target) article.
- Deleting redirects runs the risk of breaking incoming or internal links. For example, redirects resulting from page moves should not normally be deleted without good reason. Links that have existed for a significant length of time, including CamelCase links (e.g. WolVes) and old subpage links, should be left alone in case there are any existing links on external pages pointing to them. See also Wikipedia:Link rot § Link rot on non-Wikimedia sites.
- Someone finds them useful. Hint: If someone says they find a redirect useful, they probably do. You might not find it useful—this is not because the other person is being untruthful, but because you browse Wikipedia in different ways. Evidence of usage can be gauged by using the wikishark or pageviews tool on the redirect to see the number of views it gets.
- The redirect is to a closely related word form, such as a plural form to a singular form.
Neutrality of redirects
Just as article titles using non-neutral language are permitted in some circumstances, so are such redirects. Because redirects are less visible to readers, more latitude is allowed in their names, therefore perceived lack of neutrality in redirect names is not a sufficient reason for their deletion. In most cases, non-neutral but verifiable redirects should point to neutrally titled articles about the subject of the term. Non-neutral redirects may be tagged with {{R from non-neutral name}}
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Non-neutral redirects are commonly created for three reasons:
- Articles that are created using non-neutral titles are routinely moved to a new neutral title, which leaves behind the old non-neutral title as a working redirect (e.g. Climategate → Climatic Research Unit email controversy).
- Articles created as POV forks may be deleted and replaced by a redirect pointing towards the article from which the fork originated (e.g. Barack Obama Muslim rumor → deleted and now redirected to Barack Obama religion conspiracy theories).
- The subject matter of articles may be represented by some sources outside Wikipedia in non-neutral terms. Such terms are generally avoided in Wikipedia article titles, per the words to avoid guidelines and the general neutral point of view policy. For instance the non-neutral expression "Attorneygate" is used to redirect to the neutrally titled Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy. The article in question has never used that title, but the redirect was created to provide an alternative means of reaching it because a number of press reports use the term.
The exceptions to this rule would be redirects that are not established terms and are unlikely to be useful, and therefore may be nominated for deletion, perhaps under deletion reason #3. However, if a redirect represents an established term that is used in multiple mainstream reliable sources, it should be kept even if non-neutral, as it will facilitate searches on such terms. Please keep in mind that RfD is not the place to resolve most editorial disputes.
Closing notes
- Details at Administrator instructions for RfD
Nominations should remain open, per policy, about a week before they are closed, unless they meet the general criteria for speedy deletion, the criteria for speedy deletion of a redirect, or are not valid redirect discussion requests (e.g. are actually move requests).
How to list a redirect for discussion
STEP I. | Tag the redirect(s).
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STEP II. | List the entry on RfD.
Click here to edit the section of RfD for today's entries.
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STEP III. | Notify users.
It is generally considered good practice to notify the creator and main contributors of the redirect(s) that you nominate. may be placed on the creator/main contributors' user talk page to provide notice of the discussion. Please replace RedirectName with the name of the respective creator/main contributors' redirect and use an edit summary such as: Notice of redirect discussion at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion]]
Notices about the RfD discussion may also be left on relevant talk pages. |
- Please consider using What links here to locate other redirects that may be related to the one you are nominating. After going to the redirect target page and selecting "What links here" in the toolbox on the left side of your computer screen, select both "Hide transclusions" and "Hide links" filters to display the redirects to the redirect target page.
Current list
Older unfinished requests are at Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion/Old.
August 1
- Anarcho-fascism→National anarchism
- Anarcho-fascist→National anarchism
- Delete the latter is a very specific group that AFAIK doesn't use the redirected terms to identify itself. The ridirects are obnly used in a few user/talk pages and appear to be leftover POV forks Saswann 14:05, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
- Keep, at least until a new article is written for these redirects, the concepts are intimately related. ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 15:22, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
August 2
- Runaways (comics) (issues) → Runaways (comics). Months ago, a user spun some information from the latter into the former. Now, he changed his mind and incorporated that info back in the main article. Instead of putting it through a VFD, he decided to redirect to it. The name is too long, has two sets of parentheses, and there isn't much chance people will look directly for it. Pc13 23:13, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
- Delete: Info is now on Runaways (comics). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brown Shoes22 (talk • contribs) 00:38, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
- Has a long history - checking with the creator/merger to see if any of it was used elsewhere. Noel (talk) 14:40, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
- Well, the creator first spun the information off to Runaways (comics) (issues). Then, months later, the same person (who had now stopped editing as an anonymous) decided to move everything back into the main article in Runaways (comics), and changed the other one to a redirect. Pc13 12:00, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
August 6
- Cult homicides → List of groups referred to as cults by some media outlets -- POV - not relevant to article content --ZappaZ File:Yin yang.png 04:55, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
- Delete. inherently POV ≈ jossi ≈ 17:53, August 6, 2005 (UTC)
- Looking at this, and the similar Cult homicide (which wasn't listed here in this batch, dunno why), they both have extensive histories, and I'm concerned that if they are deleted, they will just be re-created rather quickly. In particular, there are things like the Charlie Manson murders which I think most people would describe as "cult homicides". If people really want these redirects deleted, I will slap a {{deletedarticle}} on them and protect them - or would people rather have them redirect to the NPOV List of groups referred to as cults by some media outlets article - or is there some more suitable target? Noel (talk) 14:15, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
August 11
- Comparison of operating systems (security), Comparison of operating systems security → Comparison of operating systems These have been merged a while ago, the redirects are no longer useful. There are no links to the redirects left, what little pre-merge talk there was has been archived. --K. Sperling 11:44, August 11, 2005 (UTC)
- Delete ≈ jossi ≈ 05:37, August 15, 2005 (UTC)
- Keep, significant history at Comparison of operating systems (security). dbenbenn | talk 00:54, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
- Mercy Hospital (Portland, Maine) → Portland, Maine -- The Mercy Hospital article was going to be placed on VFD (and would more than likely have been deleted) but was first redirected to Portland, Maine. There's no need to redirect a non-notable hospital to the city of origin. Soltak 17:36, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
- The redirect should stay since it really does not cause a problem. I merged the stub information from the old version of the article to Portland, Maine, so there is a reference in the article and a place for someone to expand the content. Vegaswikian 00:16, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
August 13
- A whole slew:
- Atmosphere (song) → Joy Division (band)
- Balance (song) → Gal Costa
- Be My Beach → Surf Punks
- Freak of the Week → The Chemical Brothers
- Into You → Jennifer Knapp
- (Not Just) Knee Deep → George Clinton (funk musician)
- Uncle Jam → Ten Years After
- Same story for all these. I'm pretty sure they all used to be very bad articles on George Clinton/Funkadelic/Parlaiment songs, then they were VfDed and deleted. These have been recreated as new redirects, in spite of the fact that in most (if not all) cases there is no mention of these in the target page. For most of them the redirect makes no apparent sense (I still don't know the relation between Uncle Jam and Ten Years After, is it a song?), though admittedly for a few (the ones with "(song)" in the title) it is pretty apparent that they are songs by the subject of the redirect. However, as all of these are apparently also songs by Clinton/Funkadelic/etc, none of these (with the exception of Knee Deep, I guess) are unique to these artists. Redirects for songs are usually a bad idea; if they're really notable they should have an article, else they should be ignored. There are too many songs, too many of which are common words or phrases, and there are too many songs with the same name. There is nothing special about any of these. They should be deleted. -R. fiend 21:23, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
August 14
- River journey → Itrw. Generic article title redirected to a specific meaning. Zoe 19:36, August 14, 2005 (UTC)
- When you find an inappropriate redirect like this, just redirect it somewhere better, in this case River seems good. No need to involve RfD. Gdr 10:32:52, 2005-08-15 (UTC)
- I disagree, for a large class of redirects where there target is not closely related to the redirect. Better to have a red link which someone might write an article for, than a redirect to something only vaguely related, as here. In this particular case, an article mentioning that, among other things, Itrw is ancient Egpytian for a term meaning "river journey", which meant a specific trip to the Egyptians, is really called for. I'll get to it in a bit unless someone else does first. Noel (talk) 14:51, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
- Keep, This should be either a redirect to [[[itrw]], or a dab page which lists a "river journy" as a name for itrw, if there are other uses of the term 'river journey" which need referencing. Paul August ☎ 20:23, August 23, 2005 (UTC)
- When you find an inappropriate redirect like this, just redirect it somewhere better, in this case River seems good. No need to involve RfD. Gdr 10:32:52, 2005-08-15 (UTC)
August 16
- Ahbash/Al-Ahbash/AICP/Habashies/TIES/ACL → Habashies -- garbage page title by new user Tearlach 00:27, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
- Ahbash / Al-Ahbash / AICP / Habashies / TIES → Habashies -- as above Tearlach 00:27, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
- Ahbash / Al-Ahbash / AICP / Habashies → Habashies --as above Tearlach 00:27, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
August 17
- Gosudarstvennyj Universalnyj Magazin → State Universal Store - A pointless redirect from a foreign-langauage term transliteration, which is non-unique, by the way. I deleted it once, but it was restored. mikka (t) 17:08, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
- I respectfully disagree. The nomination doesn't fit any of the 6 points mentioned under "When should we delete a redirect?". But it may well prevent the creation of a duplicate article. Rl 17:37, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
- oppose here. No constroversy by the redirect but may be useful. Non-unique translit, I agree. So, we could create redirects with other tranlits. Unless this makes some problems, that I don't see... --Irpen 18:29, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
August 18
- Miles O'Brien (Star Trek character) → Miles O'Brien (Star Trek) — Long parenthetical disambiguation is stigmatizing given that a shorter parenthetical disambiguation is available and widely used. Anton Mravcek 23:41, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
- Keep, no reason to kill. Redwolf24 07:26, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
- There seems to have been a truly massive amount of "cut-n-paste" moving here, will have to straighten that all out. Noel (talk) 13:45, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
August 19
- Wavebuster
- Combat Visor
- Thermal Visor
- Spring Ball
- Dark Suit
- Fusion Suit
- Scan Visor
- X-Ray Visor
- Power Beam
- Annihilator Beam
- Murder Beam
- Ice Beam
- Spazer Beam
- Charge Beam
- High Jump Boots
- Screw Attack
- X-Ray Scope
- Items in the metroid series
- Morphing Ball
- Spider Ball
- Hi-Jump Boots
- Long Beam
- Missile Combo
- Ice Spreader
- Darkburst
- A list of redirects to Items in the Metroid series, none of which are used, all of which are explained on the above page. Delete all. Thank you. -Platypus Man 06:53, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
- Keep. They were used for a while, and possibly still would be if mediawiki supported anchors in redirects. And you have to keep "Items in the metroid series", its a lower case redirect.~ Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 08:09, 2005 August 19 (UTC)
- Delete. They were used, and are no longer used. I have never heard of this "you have to keep miscapitalized redirects" rule, either; is Wikipedia's target audience those with no shift keys? :) --Quuxplusone 01:42, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
- Keep all, prevents independent recreation of fan trivia articles. -Sean Curtin 08:33, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
- Keep all, prevents people from typing in "Darkburst" and then saying"there's no article here, let me create one." --Zxcvbnm 13:51, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
- Keep all. Thunderbrand 23:58, August 27, 2005 (UTC)
August 20
- Utopia (Novel) → Utopia -- Miscapitalized, and incorrect (Utopia's not a novel). (Several people have noticed recently that Wikipedia has no article on Thomas More's book Utopia, by the way. Requested in the usual spot.) Quuxplusone 01:32, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
- Question: why exactly is Utopia not a novel? The only argument I think I've heard is the circular "it was written before there were such things as novels." If someone were to write the same basic thing today, I believe they'd call it a novel. -R. fiend 00:05, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
August 21
- ガラガラ → Marowak -- not in English, not useful. Richard Taylor 04:01, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
- This is the Japanese name of something that originated in Japan. Is that so bad for a redirect? Susvolans (pigs can fly) 07:20, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
- Keep, agree with Susvolans. --K. Sperling (talk) 12:53, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
- considering the number of articles not written with english characters, that's not a very becoming statement. Ofcourse the fact that so many articles are written with non-English characters is concerning, since how many people know how to enter accents? But the fact that people can enter them, shouldn't every page about something with non English characters automatically have a non-English redirector? (say... Junichiro Koizumi, or Al-Jazeera...) I never understood the policy banning non English redirectors, since it never made any sense. 132.205.46.188 00:57, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
- Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult → The Naked Gun -- These are separate movies, and a user seeing the link might get confused. In this case, it's better to be a redlink than a redirect. Sunglasses at night 06:18, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
- Delete and create a separate stub. --K. Sperling (talk) 12:43, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
- Koraput:Maliguda Tunnel → Maliguda Tunnel
- Koraput:Duduma Waterfall → Duduma Waterfall
- I moved the articles formerly on these pages and changed the few existing links to the old pages. The old pages are so oddly named that it seems useless to leave them as redirects. -- DS1953 16:48, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
August 22
- Vietnam Football Federation → Vietnam national football team - football associations usually have separate articles from their national teams - this would be better as a redlink until the article gets written. (See also Template:AFC associations.) sjorford (?!) 16:54, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
- Maltese Football League → Football in Malta - similar reason to Vietnam Football Federation above. sjorford (?!) 20:55, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
August 23
- Beer-sheva → Beersheba -- Beer-sheva is now listed as the redirect page for Beersheba. Beer-sheva should be deleted because the proper, official and most popular (according to Google) spelling of the name of the city in Israel is Beer-Sheva and NOT Beer-sheva (not capitalized s) and also NOT Beersheba (no hyphen and second b instead of v). The article's current name (Beersheba) cannot be edited to the correct spelling (ie Beer-Sheva) without deleting Beer-sheva (which is the the badly spelt redirect) this is because of the identical spellings of Beer-sheva and Beer-Sheva. As I understand it the only solution is to delete Beer-sheva and then do the redirect. Ben Qish 05:55, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
- You should put this on requested moves, see the instructions there. --fvw* 05:50, August 23, 2005 (UTC)
- You don’t have to delete a redirect just because you want to create one with a different capitalisation. Susvolans (pigs can fly) 07:38, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
- Plus to which, it's much better known as "Beersheba" in English anyway, so the article ought to stay at Beersheba. (And I simply don't understand the comment about name cannot be edited without deleting this bad, misspelt redirect, which is not correct. Noel (talk) 21:57, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
- Julian II → Julian the Apostate -- Julian II was a Jacobite Christian Patriarch of Antioch; Julian the Apostate was not the only Emperor bearing this name, he was also the last pagan Roman Emperor. Someone wasn't paying attention when this redirect was created. :-( -- llywrch 06:00, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
- GVOLTT'S_top_60_or_70_songs_of_2004 - Gbeeker:Favorite_Arcade_Games - Giessel - GoraN - Gregor_Wolbring - Hair_coloring:stephanieearles - HamYoyo - Hector_Alejandro - HierarchyPedia - History21 - How_to_color_hair:stephanieearles - Humanbot - JD_Jacobson - Jack_Robinson - Jaeyoun_Kim - James_G_Slade - James_loomis - Jason_Scribner - Jawr256 - Jeremy_Gallop - Jeremy_McCracken - Jitish_kallat - Jwm2004 - K6series_merger - Karkikailash - Kwertii - Laird_Jimbo - List_of_French_monarchs/Demo_page - List_of_NES_games/Temp - List_of_characters_from_Thomas_the_Tank_Engine - List_of_interesting_Google_Maps_satellite_images - Mario_Profaca - Matt_Beaudoin - Matthew_velie - Michael_Andrew_Zimmer - Michael_Garber - Michael_Gemberling - Mirkos_Wikipedia_Page - Model_revolutionary_operas - Mr._Treason - Munched - Nat_Mishkin - Noderat - Nomaed - Novum - OmerFa - OpRgAg - P0M - Page:Sandbox2 - Paul_bennett - Pete_Morales - Pezzin - Philip.cleary - Photos_from_Nice - Raj2004 - Raul654 - Redcountess - Redge - Richard_Butterfield - Richdiesal - Rkolli - Rmrfstar - Rodrigo_Barbosa - Sandbot - ScottMoonen - Sealand/Temp - Sean_Nortz - Semiotics_of_gender - Sepp_Rothwangl - Sibley-Ahlquist_taxonomy/Temp - Squeak_Box - Squeakbox - Stephanie7 - Stevey7788 - Stevey7788_(user) - Sweden_During_World_War_Two - TOttenville8 - Tamsssin - Theresa_Knott - Torstein - Towns_in_Victoria,_Australia - Tparker393/Jeffrey_W._Parker - Tstest1 - Turkish_atrocities_against_Kurds - Twice25 - Uesr_talk:Ddroar - UtherSRG/newuser - Vilnius_region/sketch - Vincent_Pac_Soo - WP:BEEFSTEW - WP:HONKEY - WP:WB --- A list generated from a few weeks old database dump of all pages in article space that redirect to User space. Such redirects should never exist (or almost never, is Humanbot tolerable?) and should be deleted. Most appear to be examples of users accidentally creating a user page in article space and then moving it to User space without removing the redirect created by the move process. Dragons flight 14:39, August 23, 2005 (UTC)
- Delete the lot. Susvolans (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) 14:54, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
- Concur with Radiant! about the WP: redirects. Also, the biography in the history of Adam Carr was an attack page by a known POV pusher, and there’s no reason to keep it. Susvolans ⇔ 15:59, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
- I'll start speedying these later tonight, when the system's running a bit faster. Noel (talk) 21:57, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
- Keep WP:BEEFSTEW. This one is part of the school debate. While it points to something in the user space, it is frequently referenced. This may be one of those rare exceptions. Vegaswikian 02:39, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
- Most of these can be speedily deleted per CSD#R2 (redirect from mainspace to userspace). Beefstew is an exception since it redirects from wikispace to userspace (and I vote to keep that one). Regular delete vote for WP:HONKEY and WP:WB. Radiant_>|< 13:09, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
- Delete the lot. Susvolans (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) 14:54, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
- Wikistalking → Wikipedia:Stalking - an inappropriate redirect into the Wikipedia: namespace, currently a double-redirect, and probably a non-notable neologism to boot. CDC (talk) 22:35, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
August 24
- Mercury (company) -> Mercury Computer Systems -- this is obsolete and unused redirection because of earlier disambiguous naming. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thv (talk • contribs) 07:30, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
- Gods and Monsters film → Gods and Monsters -- This redirect is not useful since most people looking for the article won't type the extra 'film' word. *drew 14:12, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
August 25
- Ainme → Anime -- Delete re #4 "Were created very recently as a result of a typo". Speedy rule, technically, but was speedy before when the page content was "Did you mean Anime?", on account of being nonsense, and someone removed the speedy and turned it into a redirect instead. So RFD now. -Goldom 話 貢献 06:42, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
- Hmm. Yahoo shows about 58,500 instances of "Ainme" on pages in English, many for the "Anime" meaning. So maybe this typo is common enough to be worth keeping (see #Keep #2)? Noel (talk) 21:52, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
- Hirado-jima islands → Gotō-rettō -- should be deleted for at least two reasons. A: Hiradojima and vicinity are not part of Goto Islands, B: The term "Hirado-jima islands" is not used anywhere, according to Google (nor are the terms 平戸島諸島 or 平戸島列島 used). —Tokek 09:59, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
August 26
- Comparison of Web browsers security, Comparison of web browsers (security), and Comparison of web browsers security -- article already merged to comparison of web browsers. No important references to these redirects. --minghong 02:50, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
- Are You Afraid of the Dark? (television) → Are You Afraid of the Dark? - Redirect to the disambig page instead of an artcle. The proper page for article 1 is this but the %3F instead of a question mark persists. That page needs to be moved to the first redirect but cannot until that redirect is deleted.
- Are You Afraid of the Dark? (novel) → Are You Afraid of the Dark? - Just redirects to the disambig page without any content. Should be deleted until someone writes a proper article for it. --Arm 03:03, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
- Huh?? Are You Afraid of the Dark? (novel) has been an article (not a redirect) since March. And you seem to have moved the TV series pages around since you filed this request. Let me work on fixing this... Noel (talk) 13:53, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
- See the discussion on Arm and my talk pages for more on this issue. He seems to have encountered a bug that, for him, causes both these pages to redirect to Are You Afraid of the Dark. - SimonP 21:34, August 26, 2005 (UTC)
- Huh?? Are You Afraid of the Dark? (novel) has been an article (not a redirect) since March. And you seem to have moved the TV series pages around since you filed this request. Let me work on fixing this... Noel (talk) 13:53, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
- Fernao do po → Fernão do Pó
- Fernao da po → Fernão do Pó
- I just created these redirects by accident, without capitalizing the surname. Other redirects exist (or will exist shortly) using the entries 'Fernao do Po' and 'Fernao da Po'. S. Neuman 15:13, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
- I don't think it's that big of a deal. If someone's a lazy typer, they may very well try that in the search box. RADICALBENDER★ 20:19, August 26, 2005 (UTC)
August 27
- I have made redirects of The Nurse, Forever for Her (is Over for Me), Little Ghost and Passive Manipulation. All of these are songs from one album - Get Behind Me Satan, none of them are singles, I repaired the track listing on that page and added only live single on the bands page. These were created by User:Hans863 I suggest you take at look at his talk page. If they are more appropriate to VfD, let me know. Alf 06:37, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
August 28
- Video game/Real time --> Real time strategy. Seems unlikely to ever accidentally help anyone find article, nothing links here. Coll7 00:45, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
- Racing Destruction Set (EOA) --> Racing Destruction Set. Author labeled as misspelling in history; all links now updated. Coll7 00:45, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
- Warehouse,_club,_Leeds → University of Leeds -- Delete because The redirect makes no sense M100 13:42, August 28, 2005 (UTC)
August 29
- Aganauten → Military slang -- This term is unknown outside of www.aganauten.de and is not a generic term. It was deleted as Spam on deWikipedia long ago. See also Talk:Military_slang#AGAnauten_removed -83.129.6.232 01:27, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
August 30
- Castrato Boys → The Backstreet Boys — redirect created to show dislike of Backstreet Boys. Andrew pmk | Talk 00:10, 30 August 2005 (UTC)