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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by SimonP (talk | contribs) at 02:07, 6 April 2004. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Sometimes, we want to delete redirects. Hence this page.

Other Votes for deletion (VfD) pages: copyright violations -- images -- votes for deletion

Deletion guidelines for administrators -- deletion log -- archived delete debates -- undeletion -- blankpages -- shortpages -- move to Wiktionary -- Bad jokes -- pages needing attention -- m:deletionism -- m:deletion management redesign -- Wikipedia:Cleanup

List articles to be deleted in this format:

When should we delete a redirect?

To delete a redirect without replacing it with a new article, list it here. This isn't necessary if you just want to replace a redirect with an article: see meta:redirect for instructions on how to do this.

You might want to delete a redirect if one or more of the following conditions is met:

  1. The redirect page makes it unreasonably difficult for users to locate similarly named articles via the search engine. (see meta:searches and redirects for proposals to lessen this impact)
  2. The redirect might cause confusion. For example, "Charles C. Boyer" used to redirect to "Daniel C. Boyer", because Daniel was accidentally called Charles on one external web page. However, this caused confusion with the article on Charles Boyer, so it was deleted.
  3. The redirect is offensive, such as "Joe Bloggs is a Loser" to "Joe Bloggs", unless "Joe Bloggs is a Loser" is a slogan being discussed in the article.
  4. The redirect makes no sense, such as [[Pink elephants painting daisies]] to love

However, avoid deleting such redirects if:

  1. They have a potentially useful page history. 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.
  2. They would aid accidental linking and make the creation of duplicate articles less likely
  3. They aid searches on certain terms.
  4. 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 a liar, but because you browse Wikipedia in different ways.

For example, redirecting Dubya to George W. Bush might be considered offensive, but the redirect aids accidental linking, makes the creation of duplicate articles less likely, and is useful to some people, so it should not be deleted.

Redirects to be deleted

People voting here may also be interested in the discussion on the policy regarding the deletion of offensive redirects.


March 12

  • Apocalyptic Number confusing Anthony DiPierro 13:24, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • how? --Jiang
      • 666 is not the only apocalyptic number. In fact, according to some definitions, it's not even an apocalyptic number in the first place. anthony 02:46, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)



March 24

  • IntelliGence – unlinked to miscapitalization. – Olathe 07:47, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • This has been here since 2001, when all links had to be CamelCase. Keep to avoid breaking links that may have been made externally. Angela. 11:47, Apr 1, 2004 (UTC)
  • Dinghy Racing: please delete the redirect to Dinghy sailing, as the latter page now has enogh stuff to start a Dinghy Racing Page. So kind. TonyClarke 12:37, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • It's not a redirect. Has it been fixed since this was listed? I assume deletion is no longer required. Angela. 11:47, Apr 1, 2004 (UTC)

March 25

  • 90125 -> 90125 (album). I've made it an orphan. This page will simply take up space for the next 88,121 years. - Woodrow 19:37, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Keep, unless it becomes a disambiguation page. -- User:Docu

March 30

  • Kapiti coast -> Kapiti Coast because I accidentally created it when trying to merge the entries Kapiti Coast, New Zealand and Kapiti Coast District into Kapiti Coast (sorry). There is no need for a redirect with broken capitalisation, the search engine figures it out. Make sure you get the right one (the lower-case c).
    • Keep, while it might not affect the search engine other users may very well try to link to the lowercase version. - SimonP 05:28, Apr 2, 2004 (UTC)
Keep, these odd constructions are linked to more often than one would think. - SimonP 05:28, Apr 2, 2004 (UTC)

March 31

embarrasing typo-propogated redirect that I created instead of Cass Lake (Minnesota). It is nonsensical and would never be searched for even as a misspelling. -- Decumanus | Talk 00:43, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

April 1

Incorrectly spelt page title - I moved the contents to the correctly spelled page Devastator heavy bomber and changed all links, should we get rid of this redirect page now? Stormie 04:09, Apr 1, 2004 (UTC)
Keep, not a rare spelling error. - SimonP 05:28, Apr 2, 2004 (UTC)

April 2

Was appropriate while it was still listed on VfD, but now that it is being kept the redirect is no longer required. — mendel ☎ 03:48, Apr 2, 2004 (UTC)
Keep. anthony (this comment is a work in progress and may change without prior notice) 04:55, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Politics in Music -> Politics in music. I created the original page, forgetting to capitalise it correctly. TUF-KAT kindly moved it to its new home, and I've sinced corrected links to the original, which is therefore now an orphan. Obviously no reason for it to exist any more. --Lancevortex 10:49, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Keep. anthony (this comment is a work in progress and may change without prior notice) 04:58, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Keep. Good redirect. RickK | Talk 06:14, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Keep. Misspelling. anthony (this comment is a work in progress and may change without prior notice) 04:58, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
No one ever types "Tripoli (disambiguation)" in the search box, let alone a misspelling that's very unlikely, so what is the purpose of keeping this? Delete. RADICALBENDER★ 05:03, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Delete. We may want a redirect from disamdiguation to disambiguation though. -- User:Docu
Delete. RickK | Talk 06:14, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Fixed. anthony (this comment is a work in progress and may change without prior notice) 04:56, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)

April 4

April 5

  • Sonja Elen Kisa -> User:Sonjaaa. Sonjaaa created the article space article about herself, which I redirected to her user page. We now should delete the article. RickK | Talk 01:25, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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