Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion

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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,
    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 a redirect be deleted? 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:

The guiding principles of RfD

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  • 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 a redirect be deleted?

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Further information: Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Common outcomes and Wikipedia:Moving a page § Moving over a redirect

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

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See also:
Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion § Redirects

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):

  1. 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" (itself a redirect to "Article"), it would take much longer to get to the newly added articles on Wikipedia.
  2. 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.
  3. The redirect is offensive or abusive, such as redirecting "Joe Bloggs is a Loser" to "
    G3 may apply.) See also § Neutrality of redirects
    .
  4. The redirect constitutes self-promotion or spam. (
    Speedy deletion criterion G11
    may apply.)
  5. The redirect makes no sense, such as redirecting "
    Speedy deletion criterion G1
    may apply.)
  6. It is a
    Speedy deletion criterion R2
    may apply if the target namespace is something other than Category:, Template:, Wikipedia:, Help:, or Portal:.)
  7. 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.
  8. If the redirect is a
    candidates for speedy deletion criterion R3
    , if recently created.)
  9. 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
    round-robin move. If not, take the article to Requested moves
    .
  10. Shortcut
    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

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However, avoid deleting such redirects if:

  1. 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.
  2. They would aid
    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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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
    R from old history}}. See also Wikipedia:Link rot § Link rot on non-Wikimedia sites
    .
  5. 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.
  6. The redirect is to a closely related word form, such as a plural form to a singular form.

Neutrality of redirects

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Just as article titles using non-neutral language

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
}}.

Non-neutral redirects are commonly created for three reasons:

  1. 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).
  2. 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
    ).
  3. 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
    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

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

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

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STEP I.
Tag the redirect(s).

  Enter {{subst:

rfd
|content= at the very beginning of the redirect page you are listing for discussion and enter }} at the very end of the page.

  • Please do not mark the edit as minor (m).
  • Please include in the edit summary the phrase:
    Nominated for RfD: see [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion]].
  • Save the page ("Publish changes").
  • If you are unable to edit the redirect page because of protection, this step can be omitted, and after step 2 is completed, a request to add the RFD template can be put on the redirect's talk page.
  • If the redirect you are nominating is in template namespace, consider adding |showontransclusion=1 to the RfD tag so that people using the template redirect are aware of the nomination.
  • If you are nominating multiple redirects as a group, repeat all the above steps for each redirect being nominated and specify on {{rfd}} the nomination's group heading from Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion
STEP II.
List the entry on RfD.

 Click here to edit the section of RfD for today's entries.

  • Enter this text below the date heading:
{{subst:Rfd2|redirect=RedirectName|target=TargetArticle|text=The action you would like to occur (deletion, re-targeting, etc.) and the rationale for that action.}} ~~~~
  • For this template:
    • Put the redirect's name in place of RedirectName, put the target article's name in place of TargetArticle, and include a reason after text=.
    • Note that, for this step, the "target article" is the current target of the redirect (if you have a suggestion for a better target, include this in the text that you insert after text=).
  • Please use an edit summary such as:
    Nominating [[RedirectName]]
    (replacing RedirectName with the name of the redirect you are nominating).
  • To list multiple related redirects for discussion, use the following syntax. Repeat line 2 for N number of redirects:
{{subst:Rfd2|redirect=RedirectName1|target=TargetArticle1}}
{{subst:Rfd2|multi=yes|redirect=RedirectName2|target=TargetArticle2}}
{{subst:Rfd2|multi=yes|redirect=RedirectNameN|target=TargetArticleN|text=The actions you would like to occur (deletion, re-targeting, etc.) and the rationale for those actions.}} ~~~~
  • If the redirect has had previous RfDs, you can add {{
    Oldrfdlist
    |previous RfD without brackets|result of previous RfD}}     directly after the rfd2 template.
  • If appropriate, inform members of the most relevant
    subst:delsort
    |<topic>|<signature>}} template to the nomination, to insert a note that this has been done.
STEP III.
Notify users.

  It is generally considered good practice to notify the creator and main contributors of the redirect(s) that you nominate.

To find the main contributors, look in the page history of the respective redirect(s). For convenience, the template

{{subst:Rfd notice|RedirectName}} ~~~~

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

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February 10

National News

There are more news programs (even in Canada) called “national news”, this probably needs to be converted into a disambiguation page of some kind at the very least. It certainly shouldn’t be redirected to CBC. Hurricane Clyde 🌀my talk page! 14:06, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Just as a comment: again even in Canada, “national news” could be referring to CBC The National, or to CTV National News, not to mention programs outside of Canada. Hurricane Clyde 🌀my talk page! 14:19, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I've added the related redirect The National News to the nomination. Both should point to the same place.
b} 19:34, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply
]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, CycloneYoris talk! 09:01, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A: AOU

A very vague and unhelpful redirect to the article -- ZooBlazer 08:24, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

For some reason most search results for this exact string without the space relate to Lego Marvel's Avengers, in reference to the versions of characters from this film. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 12:13, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It looks like some fandom wikis use it as shorthand for the film. A google search also terms up multiple uses on Reddit. Good enough for to keep unless there's other uses. -- Patar knight - chat/contributions 06:07, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. These are an assortment of random letters to most readers, making this an unhelpful redirect. Gonnym (talk) 17:57, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak Keep - For those users that this would be a random string of letters for, they will never see this redirect. Redirects are not typically user facing. For those that do use it, this is the correct target. Google does show significant fairly unambiguous use for this... yeah, there's some Lego Avengers bleedover, but even there it is still referring to this target. Strange how this is shown to be a fairly common abbreviation, while A:IW isn't. Anyway, what makes this a "weak" keep for me is the space after the colon. I don't see that in my searches. People typically seem to be typing "A:AOU", not "A: AOU". Fieari (talk) 05:02, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Bank of the Cook Islands

Redirect from a non-notable entity to a town. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:43, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Hurricane Clyde 🌀my talk page! 14:08, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Noinclude

This redirected to inclusion before being unilaterally retargeted as a cross-namespace redirect. While I agree that its meaning is quite unambiguous on enwiki, the creation of cross-namespace redirects is generally deprecated. I personally don't think that this rather obscure wikijargon warrants one. — Anonymous 05:52, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Hurricane Clyde 🌀my talk page! 14:12, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Pretty sure this goes against the policy on cross-namespace redirects, maybe someone more experienced can elaborate on that. Hurricane Clyde 🌀my talk page! 14:23, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Now I do understand that this is a redirect that is 17 years old; but it looks like it was retargeted about two years ago to its current target. Still though, the policy does generally frown upon cross-namespace redirects. Hurricane Clyde 🌀my talk page! 14:25, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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KWHY-TV

A series of call sign moves has left us with the sort of pickle that only an RfD can properly address.

In January, the original KWHY-TV (channel 22), which had held that call sign since 1966, changed to KSCN-TV. Then, another station in the same area, KBEH (channel 63), became KWHY (note no suffix). The page moves have left KWHY-TV redirecting to KSCN-TV but KWHY as another article title. It does have a hatnote. In preparation for this move, there are no direct links in article space.

That said, I'm unsure if repointing KWHY-TV to KWHY is appropriate. Nearly all printed references to KWHY-TV will want KSCN-TV, but there's also now another KWHY that is a TV station, and that has to be considered as many news media mentions of TV stations are very imprecise with suffixes. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 04:28, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep - This sounds like a job for hatnotes and article content explanations. As you say, anyone finding a reference to exactly "KWHY-TV" is going to want "KSCN-TV". Now, a "KWHY (Television station)" disambiguator might need to be a DAB. But the exact title match should work like an exact title match. Fieari (talk) 05:52, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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31 April & 31 September

There are no 31st day in April and September. They are also not suitable to redirect to other pages per Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 December 7#April 31 and Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 November 24#September 31. 125.253.56.0 (talk) 05:02, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:!

Doesn't seem like a very plausible thing, being just an exclamation mark after the colon. Cyber the tiger🐯 (talk) 02:10, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Created per
Wikipedia:¬ still redirects to Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not, and should probably be treated the same way as the redirect nominated here. Brianjd (talk) 02:19, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply
]
Why is there no ‘subscribe’ command for me to subscribe to this discussion? Brianjd (talk) 02:20, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Glass-ceiling feminism and others

These terms are not mentioned in the article. From looking at my search results, this term was first coined by

Dsuke1998AEOS (talk) 22:14, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply
]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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February 9

Immune complex deposition

Immune complex deposition is a feature of many autoimmune conditions. I would suggest DAB or retarget to Immune complex. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 06:08, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Well, yeah it's a feature of many autoimmune conditions - and all of them are at least partially Type III hypersensitivities, are they not? Per statpearls: The principle feature that separates type III reactions from other hypersensitivity reactions is that in type III reactions, the antigen-antibody complexes are pre-formed in the circulation before their deposition in tissues. Just-a-can-of-beans (talk) 15:12, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
To be more specific, the immune complex deposition is why they are partially or completely Type III. Just-a-can-of-beans (talk) 15:14, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the explanation, Just-a-can-of-beans! This isn't in my area of expertise, so I'm not going to comment further. However, I have posted about this redirect at WP:MED. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 00:38, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
While ICD is often seen in Type 3 hypersensitivity, currently we have more information on the topic in the page Immune complex. Unless Type III hypersensitivity is expanded to include more information about ICD, currently Immune complex seems like a more appropriate target since it gives more information abbout ICD. IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 23:51, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Or maybe we should turn it into a separate article? WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:18, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
From a student/learning perspective, this is what I was hoping to find, and I was simply surprised to see no page or redirect when I searched it. I do like the idea of a separate page for it, if others feel it is distinct enough to warrant one. Just-a-can-of-beans (talk) 01:28, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I encourage you to make the article. Heres some sources I found to start you out: [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 01:44, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'd be happy to take up the challenge. Thank you for hunting down some sources, will save me a lot of time :) Just-a-can-of-beans (talk) 04:31, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This is always the best case scenario and I hope to see it as it's own article one day. By my limited reseach it does seem to meet
WP:GNG. Hopefully it can be turned into an article. IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 01:30, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply
]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Alright, we think this could be a standalone, but since there's no article here yet, do we retarget?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, asilvering (talk) 22:55, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Disney Channel (TV channel in Asia)

No opinion on this, just listing it for discussion. Intrisit (talk) 18:44, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Can we get a second on Tavix's solution who actually thinks these should be kept? Otherwise, delete seems like the way to go.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, asilvering (talk) 22:30, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Târnavele Blaj

Keep Closed discussion, see full discussion. Result was: keep

List of cameos of the Mario series

No such list or topic in target article. Steel1943 (talk) 14:40, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete all per nom or retarget to a specific heading if applicable. Also, if only 2 or 3 exists, won't 2 act as 3 and vice versa? TheTechie@enwiki (she/they | talk) 02:10, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
delete per nom and as... kind of vague, if i'm being honest. on top of there not being a list, what would this mean for donkey kong, for example? consarn (speak evil) (see evil) 11:57, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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May 21, 2004

No mention of May 21 at the target. Can't easily find anything to restore in the page history either. Departure– (talk) 19:42, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Snape kills dumbledore

Per Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 January 21#Snape kills Dumbledore. Janhrach (talk) 19:04, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Brasileiros

This word means "Brazilians" in Portuguese, so the current target is very

surprising. I suggest retargeting to Brazilians. Duckmather (talk) 19:01, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply
]

This is the term used in the BJJ community, which is an abbreviation. (Heroeswithmetaphors) talk 20:04, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sour apple

Ambiguous descriptive phrase not even mentioned at target. Numerous sour apple cultivars exist.[10] Paradoctor (talk) 16:42, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Main page/sandbox

Unneeded cross-namespace redirect. * Pppery * it has begun... 15:42, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Red Movement

Not mentioned in target article, nor does the target section exist. Seems the section target may be intended to be Red#In politics, but with there not being any specific mention of this phrase in the target article, at the least, there may not be a guarantee that readers searching this phrase are intending to locate information about politics. Steel1943 (talk) 18:45, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Retarget to Red Power movement, which seems like the most likely intended destination. Anonymous 20:21, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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  • Delete "Red movement" is a literal, descriptive phrase, not an idiom or name for one or more distinct concepts. We need somewhere to link to where the term gets defined, not just used.

Doo (pseudonym)

There is no mention in the example of "Doo" being used as a pseudonym. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 11:20, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Lukas Miklos

Redirected at AfD in 2009, no longer mentioned on the list of characters from this series, or anywhere on Wikipedia for that matter. Utopes (talk / cont) 00:54, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Fédération de la Fonction Publique Européenne of the European Patent Office

The FFPE is a union that has a subsection at the European Patent Office. This page redirects to the European Patent Office article, which doesn't even mention the FFPE. I just don't see the point of this redirect. Aŭstriano (talk) 04:10, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep. The statement that "the European Patent Office article [...] doesn't even mention the FFPE" doesn't appear fully correct. The FFPE is mentioned in the "External links" section. Per "
    WP:RPURPOSE" "Subtopics or other topics that are described or listed within a wider article. [...]" (underlining added), this redirect does not appear useless. Of course, ideally the "Employees' representation and labour relations" section should mention the FFPE. --Edcolins (talk) 12:27, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply
    ]

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HowDoesOneEditaPage

A) previously deleted in a separate RFD (Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2020_April_10#HowDoesOneEditaPage

B) R from CamelCase should only be used for OLD pages or for pages where the camelcasing is plausible.

C) Inappropiate and implausible XNR

D) all of the 10 links to this redirect are unanimously about the OLD version of the page User:Someone-123-321 (I contribute, Talk page so SineBot will shut up) 09:39, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy delete per
WP:G4 2A0E:1D47:9085:D200:8139:4F47:7D35:2A9F (talk) 13:44, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply
]
Comment this isn't that simple; see:
Janhrach (talk) 19:34, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
And also these two:
In the light of this, I would suggest retargeting to Wikipedia:Historical archive/Abandoned help pages from 2001/How does one edit a page/Old version. Janhrach (talk) 19:42, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

G (unit)

It could refer to many other units or G-Unit. Frost 14:35, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe redirect it to something like G (disambiguation)? When trying to guess the name of the unit equal to about 9.81 m/s2, it took a bit for me to realize it was located at
Gravity (unit) redirect to that page for convenience purposes. 27 is my favorite number. You can ask me why here. 16:43, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply
]
Retarget to G_(disambiguation)#Mathematics_and_science. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 23:38, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Telemedia International Italia Ltd.

Deletion: it wasn't a

S.p.A., because it's an Italy-based company. InterComMan (talk) 18:09, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply
]

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Chaguan

The only times Chaguan is linked to is when it's used to refer to the Chaguan people/tribe of Venezuela.

I believe "Chaguan" was originally linked as a red link, and diffs confirm that it was added before the redirect was created in Dec 2016. Immediately after the Chaguan redirect was added, it began to receive a lot of page views (Also, this had around 32k going to Teahouse and 1.5k going to Chaguan, but it seems Chaguan won't show up in the data anymore because I added a template to the redirect page).

I'm not exactly sure what the right move is because, without the redirect, the target would have been a red link. Either a) the redirect is removed, or b) it's kept and the links in Classification of Indigenous peoples and List of Indigenous peoples are edited to point to a new red link like "Chaguan people" or get deleted.  – Kilvin the Futz-y Enterovirus (talk) 04:17, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Tamago

"Tamago" means "egg" in Japanese, whereas "yaki" means "grilled". The current target effectively redirects "egg" to "grilled egg", and is hence too specific compared to other Japanese egg dishes, particularly Onsen tamago. feminist🩸 (talk) 06:35, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Retarget to Egg. ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 03:29, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete
WP:RLOTE: Common words or concepts Paradoctor (talk) 04:25, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply
]

Oil Pan (Transformers)

Not mentioned at target; a search for "oil pan" on-wiki does not appear to provide any relevant results. 1234qwer1234qwer4 05:17, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - obscure character that was only a toy and not even an autobot. Schützenpanzer (Talk) 14:09, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Cybersexism

Sexism is not restricted to bullying, and the target does not talk a lot about it anyway. There is wikt:cybersexism, but apart from that I am not sure how much relevant content we have to point the reader at. 1234qwer1234qwer4 05:15, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete/Wiktionary redirect rare term that is too vague to point a specific article. Traumnovelle (talk) 05:20, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Bo'oh'o'wa'er

Delete per the outcome of Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 September 19#Bo’oh’o’wa’er. — Anonymous 04:38, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Concise Grove Dictionary of Music

This particular version of the work is not mentioned at the target. 1234qwer1234qwer4 03:35, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

PE infection

This was merged into the target, but that one no longer mentions it. 1234qwer1234qwer4 03:26, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment It is still in the target article, but is named differently, with "PE" spelled out. The edit history should be displaced to portable executable infection, since "PE" is opaque and has multitude of meanings unrelated to the merged content. In particular, an infection can cause a pulmonary embolism. And "Pe" can refer to Pseudomonas entomophila, which can cause an infection. -- 65.92.246.77 (talk) 07:34, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Taumarere

Not mentioned at target Traumnovelle (talk) 03:24, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That's because the school is in Moerewa. Now corrected.-Gadfium (talk) 08:43, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep repointed redirect - cheers G. Grutness...wha? 11:43, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ZeuS

This particular capitalisation would probably refer to Gameover ZeuS. The page was originally created as a camel-case title in pre-MediaWiki times, so I'm not sure how easily this is retargeted, but in case it is not, a hatnote would unfortunately appear quite odd (though the malware should probably be added to Zeus (disambiguation) either way). 1234qwer1234qwer4 03:23, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Changing vote to Keep. With the "delete" option unavailable, the least damage is done by keeping redirect to a well-known properly capitalized name, thus avoiding a surprise. Most search engines ignore the case anyhow, so this redirect will not help externally to find the malware article. --Викидим (talk) 03:54, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Pukemiro

Split or bespoke decisions Closed discussion, see full discussion. Result was: premature close

Cyberwarfare by India

No longer mentioned at target. Cyberwarfare in India redirects to Cyberwarfare#India, though that might be somewhat different. 1234qwer1234qwer4 03:05, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Clickskrieg

No mention anywhere on the English Wikipedia. A web search tells that this has been applied to the 2007 cyberattacks on Estonia, though I feel like this might be too obscure of a term to warrant a mention. 1234qwer1234qwer4 03:01, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Cyber cold war

No mention of "cold war" at the target. Apart from deletion, Second Cold War could maybe be a potential target, though there is not a lot of content on "cyber" things there either. 1234qwer1234qwer4 02:59, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Online harassment

(Most of?) these should point at the same target. 1234qwer1234qwer4 02:49, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete attacking users, too generic of a term to be a useful redirect Traumnovelle (talk) 05:22, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As the creator of Internet harassment, keep all but "Attacking users" per User:Traumnovelle. Most of these are plausible search terms, no opinion on which of the two articles they should direct to though. JeffSpaceman (talk) 12:00, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Soutane (malware)

Not mentioned at target. 1234qwer1234qwer4 02:41, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Scamware

The target does not mention the word "scam", and this seems to be somewhat different or more general than trojan horses. Apart from wikt:scamware, I also cannot find any more suitable alternative. 1234qwer1234qwer4 02:36, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Momovirus

Not mentioned anywhere on the English Wikipedia. A web search did not help me understand what this might be referring to in the first place. 1234qwer1234qwer4 02:32, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Play Mp3

Not mentioned at target; this one can also cause confusion. 1234qwer1234qwer4 02:30, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete too generic of a term Traumnovelle (talk) 03:26, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Play mp3.exe (trojan)

Not mentioned at target. 1234qwer1234qwer4 02:30, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete too specific of a term with the parentheses to be a plausible search term Traumnovelle (talk) 03:26, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Friends lesbian kiss episode

Are descriptive episode names like this helpful? I'm genuinely asking. Also, it seems to have been wrongly tagged as being from a merge. — Anonymous 02:03, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep I don't doubt someone would see smth like "my favourite episode of friends was the lesbian kiss episode" on socmed and look up something like "Friends lesbain kiss episode" User:Someone-123-321 (I contribute, Talk page so SineBot will shut up) 09:48, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ddox

This seems like an implausible way to refer to the target topic; web searches reveal only unrelated results. 1234qwer1234qwer4 02:01, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Could this have possibly been created in error? — Anonymous 02:04, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete It looks like something that appears occasionally on gamer forums ([17], [18], [19]) as a synonym or related term to doxxing. Google scholar has some hits for a derivative of doxycycline but nothing in the privacy/harassment context. Oblivy (talk) 02:35, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I was thinking that this would be a misspelling of
DDoS when I first saw the redirect, and i assume at least one other post on the Hypixel forums did as well. User:Someone-123-321 (I contribute, Talk page so SineBot will shut up) 09:44, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply
]

English WikipediA

WP:UNNATURAL capitalisation; implausible redirect. 1234qwer1234qwer4 01:58, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply
]

Keep per {{
R from camelcase}}. I am bad at usernames (talk) 03:13, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply
]
Delete This isn't a plausible search term, and if it was the search results would help a user find the right page. {{R from camelcase}} is for legacy page names.
I note that the creator of this redirect also created Ddox as a redirect, suggesting a deficient understanding (at best) of the purpose of redirects. Oblivy (talk) 03:22, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@
Wikipedia:‑( makes me seriously question their level of competence. — Anonymous 03:39, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply
]
Comment camelcasE sayS nothinG abouT makinG thE lasT letteR captiaL, buT aS yoU caN seE thiS iS A verY normaL waY oF typinG sO thiS redirecT shoulD defientilY bE kepT[just kidding] Anthony2106 (talk) 07:57, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
but someone should nominate https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WikipediA&oldid=208363752
Used on that uses page, they probably just copyed
wikipediA Anthony2106 (talk) 08:08, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply
]
DeletE peR noM. 2A0E:1D47:9085:D200:8139:4F47:7D35:2A9F (talk) 13:41, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Пример

WP:RLOTE; no affinity to Russian. 1234qwer1234qwer4 01:57, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply
]

Divrras šokolahta

WP:RLOTE; unclear relation to Northern Sámi. 1234qwer1234qwer4 01:57, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply
]

Bitter chocolate

This seems to refer to dark chocolate. 1234qwer1234qwer4 01:56, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Y

Keep Closed discussion, see full discussion. Result was: Withdrawn by nominator

February 8

Gerald Rashard Everett

Rashard seems to be the wrong middle name. PFR has Rashad. Red Director (talk) 23:54, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

＃saveminecraft

No discussion of such a hashtag at the target article. People who search for this hashtag will not know the context of what the hashtag is referring to. The anchor is invisible to readers who might not know why they got warped halfway down the page, and without a direct mention of such a hashtag for their eyeballs to latch onto, the context is guesswork as it stands. Utopes (talk / cont) 06:14, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete unless a mention can be added. Note that
Nickps (talk) 17:52, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply
]
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Saveminecraft

Delete per Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 January 24#＃saveminecraft: Not mentioned in the target article. Steel1943 (talk) 22:11, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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I have re-added the mention. Jay 💬 09:23, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Talk:Besame Mucho (film)

Recently created.

(CC) Tbhotch™ 21:53, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply
]

The China Project

This is the verbatim name an apparently now-defunct media company. I'm unsure whether or not the company meets GNG, but even if it doesn't, it still seems like

WP:REDYES. Anyone searching this exact phrase, particularly with this exact capitalisation, is almost certainly looking for the company, and will only be confused by the target. — Anonymous 21:48, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply
]

Pet Supermarket

There's a chain of pet stores in the United States called "Pet Supermarket", which I'm wagering is an entirely different organization than the (former?) UK chain that this redirects to the purchasers of. This link should either be disambiguated or redlinked with Pet Supermarket (UK) linking to MedicAnimal. The Bushranger One ping only 21:43, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Kill Two Birds with One Stone

Split or bespoke decisions Closed discussion, see full discussion. Result was: speedily closed

The way all good men go

Not mentioned in target article, leaving the connection between the redirect and the target unclear. Steel1943 (talk) 19:19, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, it was created after an IP editor used the phrase as a redlink but isn't really a plausible search term and is linked from no other place, Rjjiii (talk) 20:03, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Universo Paralello

Universo Paralello is a music festival in Bahia. There used to be content about it in the target article, added originally in

Re'im music festival massacre (the music festival in Israel whose attendees were massacred was affiliated with the larger Brazilian Universo Paralello festival). This addition to the Bahia article was completely pointless and has since been undone, and so there is no mention of "Universo Paralello" at the target, and there's no suitable alternative target. —Alalch E. 19:18, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply
]

Bar-e-Sagheer

Name not mentioned at target. CycloneYoris talk! 17:25, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This appears to be the name in the
A10. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 18:39, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply
]

White Gold (musician)

The section in which this character was mention was removed in 2010 as excessive (the character's mention was also unsourced anyway). I cannot find any other mention of this subject. Jalen Barks (Woof) 17:00, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Genesis (2008)

Looks like someone's crystal ball was faulty. No need to keep this a decade and a half later. * Pppery * it has begun... 16:49, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 18:31, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Banana à milanesa

no affinity with brazil (whatever that is), or other portugese-speaking countries for that matter consarn (speak evil) (see evil) 13:53, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Weak delete simply because whether or not the target has a connection to the Brazilian language is currently a bit unclear, so it may be better to be safe than sorry. Also, the recipe linked by Polyamorph may not be exactly what the target article is about, considering various English translations of the word "milanesa", which could mean "cutlet". Steel1943 (talk) 21:41, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    "am brazil, can speak brazil" isn't much of a reliable source, but if it helps, "banana à milanesa" can't be a cutlet because cutlets are explicitly not a fruit thing. also, "chuleta" has an almost completely different meaning 'round these parts, and saying "chuleta de banana" is a crime against food consarn (speak evil) (see evil) 12:08, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Allied star

Equally appropriate for several other pages, see e.g. discussion of the subject at British military vehicle markings of World War II. Also, most common usage seems to be mispelling the company Alliedstar, which we don't have an article for. Rusalkii (talk) 02:40, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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V For Vengence

Per

WP:R#Keep. MimirIsSmart (talk) 13:41, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply
]

Ambient jungle

Article has previously linked to a sub-section of the Jungle music article about sub-genres. That section no longer exists and there is no term "Ambient jungle" or any similar term on the page. Term for a genre or sub-genre of this does not appear to be in common use. Andrzejbanas (talk) 15:04, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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5217

Lots of things are numbered 5217 (a gene, a watch model, a multimeter, various forms, etc). This area isn't the primary topic and the zip code is an unlikely search term. Rusalkii (talk) 02:06, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Not enough contents for a disambiguation page; the only other title containing the number is a minor planet redirect. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 18:33, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Most Expensive City In The World For Expats

Nominating List of most expensive cities for expatriate employees. Redirect to Luanda reflects data from 2018/2019 source and is not current. Rather than constantly updating the redirect, there's already a list article that covers this. Lukeh486 (talk) 01:20, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Retarget to List of most expensive cities for expatriate employees per nom. In my humble opinion, redirects should never be created for statistical items that are subject to frequent change, such as "the busiest ____" or "the most expensive ____"; such redirects are too difficult to police, so they should only target the list where the items are found. Carguychris (talk) 16:30, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Les Dix Commandements

Delete per

WP:FORRED. Phrase not mentioned in the target article, and the target article's subject had no affinity to the French language. Steel1943 (talk) 00:02, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply
]

Just discovered that
WP:PRECISE if the nominated redirect is deleted. Steel1943 (talk) 00:03, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply
]


February 7

On the ground.

Dicken's last words. Not convinced this is a useful redirect over e.g.

WP:SMALLDIFFS argument. Google hits are the song and the occasional reference to "on the ground" either physically or metaphorically ("boots on the ground"). Rusalkii (talk) 23:33, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply
]

Retarget to
MOS:EASTEREGG topics on the basis of obscure cultural references. That's what the Googles are for. Carguychris (talk) 16:38, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply
]

Sharqi Arabic

Not mentioned at target. "Sharqi" is apparently a romanisation of the Arabic word for "eastern", so maybe it could be retargeted to the DAB page Eastern Arabic. — Anonymous 23:17, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Should be a rd to Mashriqi Arabic, which did not exist when I created this.
Though there are no incoming links, there are a couple hits on Gbooks from the 2010's that contrast Sharqi dialects and Maghrebi dialects. — kwami (talk) 23:48, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Jerome Isma-ae

Name is mentioned several times throughout the article, but no information is provided on the subject. Better to delete and let search results handle this. CycloneYoris talk! 22:44, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

pin game

weird case. "pin game" (with a space or dash) seems to be a collective term for the kind of games you'd find on

YEAH! YOU WANT "THOSE GAMES," RIGHT? SO HERE YOU GO! NOW, LET'S SEE YOU CLEAR THEM! (with like 2.5 results related to pinball i guess), while "pingame" seems to refer to an unnotable band. though pingame journal is an article that exists, so maybe an argument could be made for it? consarn (speak evil) (see evil) 20:54, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply
]

Keep - per the article, By the 1930s, manufacturers were producing coin-operated versions of bagatelles, now known as "marble games" or "pin games". - redirect seems reasonable BugGhost 🦗👻 00:07, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as Bugghost says. If some other potential target comes up, that we need to address versus claptrap like non-notable bands, then we can disambiguate by one means or another.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  00:28, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

pin table

to my surprise, that term seems to refer mostly to a type of table used to transfer sheet metal (hell, results didn't even give me anything related to balls). don't think there's a particularly good target for that, since sheet metal doesn't mention those tables, so... consarn (speak evil) (see evil) 20:25, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per this Merriam-Webster entry. Also create a redirect for Pin-table. I am bad at usernames (talk) 22:52, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as I_am_bad_at_usernames says. If and when an article here addresses the sheet-metal-related usage, then we can disambiguate, but we are not in the habit of "pre-disambiguating" without a viable target just because someone can imagine a reader somewhere has another idea in mind.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  00:30, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Turd

I don't know if this counts as ragpicking, but no user exists of this name, and this redirect doesn't appear to be constructive (although it was created by the user themselves). There was a user with this name that was blocked with no edits, so U2 does not apply. Delete. -1ctinus📝🗨 19:55, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Miwiki

I'm not sure how plausible of a misspelling this is (per the rcat). However, it could also refer to

Maori Wikipedia. Duckmather (talk) 17:02, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply
]

Delete, absent clear evidence of real-world usage in reference to this subject. Very implausible typo, and looks like a joke.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  00:31, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
If it's not a plausible typo of "Miyuki", why don't we retarget to List_of_Wikipedias#Māori instead? Duckmather (talk) 19:04, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Quicksilver wiki

Not mentioned at target, doesn't seem notable, maybe delete? Duckmather (talk) 16:58, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Orange hypergiant

orange is not yellow.[citation needed] why would a redirect about ORANGE hypergiants redirect to a YELLOW hypergiant? that's like redirecting green apples to red apples User:Someone-123-321 (I contribute, Talk page so SineBot will shut up) 14:09, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. According to this article, orange (K class) hypergiants are usually lumped into the yellow category. I am bad at usernames (talk) 17:13, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sports organizations

Again, a notable concept (has its own category; is discussed in academia). Not mentioned in target article. Should be a red link Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 13:25, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sport culture

Potentially important and notable concept. Not mentioned in the target article (main article about sport at all). Should be a red link - it is obviously not a synonym for sports, but an aspect of the wider phenomena. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 12:29, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

East West Corridor

I do not think that

WP:SMALLDIFFS apply between this and East–West Corridor. —CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 10:20, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply
]

Disambiguate between Ma On Shan line, East–West Corridor, North–South and East–West Corridor, Blue Line (Lucknow Metro), and Blue Line (Ahmedabad Metro). Duckmather (talk) 17:13, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Characters in the Contra Series

No such list in the target article. (There was an article at this title for about a month in 2007 before an apparent

WP:BLAR.) Steel1943 (talk) 00:54, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply
]

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  • Delete. This was just the result of a short-lived BLAR back in 2007. It's an likewise an unlikely search target and even in that case, it suggests there's something dedicated to this specific subtopic, but there isn't really. 35.139.154.158 (talk) 16:31, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Aenona

This was the ancient name of this settlement, but it is also the name of an extinct genus. Given that this name is no longer in use, I believe the genus would be a primary topic here, and thus this redirect should be deleted as REDYES (a hatnote can be placed on the article for the genus when it is eventually created). There are incoming links for both meanings, so some will need to be fixed. — Anonymous 23:10, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguate between Nin and
WP:PRIMARYRED says that the situation is treated as if there is no primary topic until the red-linked article is written. jlwoodwa (talk) 23:24, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply
]

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College fund

Currently redirects to 529 plan. College does not just exist in the United States though, even if the cost of tuition there means that people are more likely to set a savings fund early. Anyone have better target ideas? Or a rationale for why it should stay the way it is? Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 22:59, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete. The phrase is ambiguous. Could it refer to money a parent saves for their kids? (Can't find an article for that.) Could it refer to funds given to colleges to use for various reasons? (There's probably an article for that is
    WP:BIAS-neutral per geography, but I couldn't find one.) In other words, there's no guarantee a reader is looking for this target at all, and there are other plausible subjects a reader could be looking for. (If any other targets are found, consider thus vote either a "retarget" or "disambiguate", depending on the amount of other articles found.) Steel1943 (talk) 22:40, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply
    ]

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City of Austin

There are multiple cities named Austin, so I suggest either retargeting to Austin#United States or at least adding this term in a hatnote to there. Duckmather (talk) 06:01, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, Austin, TX is by by a wide margin the most notable city named Austin. — Red XIV (talk) 05:01, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Keep as the pri