Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2010 January 21

• Bomb attack on danish embassy in Pakistan on june 2th 2008 → 2008 Danish embassy bombing in Islamabad (links to redirect • history • stats) 

Delete, not a useful redirect, one case of misspelling, but there are many ways for misspelling this title. There are no wikilinks to the redirect. It was created by moving a misspelled current event substub. If we need any redirect, I think we need not this very special lower-case-june/2-th-combination. --Diwas (talk) 00:35, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete, obscure search term, no evidence from page view statistics to show it is used anywhere significant as an inbound external link. --Taelus (talk) 13:32, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Wanessa Camargo (2nd album) (links to redirect • history • stats
  ) 

Delete, not a useful redirect, one case of misspelling, but there are many ways for misspelling this title. There are no wikilinks to the redirect. It was created by moving a misspelled article. Diwas (talk) 22:47, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• José Antônio Moreira Filho,2th baron of ipanema → José Antônio Moreira Filho, 2nd Baron of Ipanema (links to redirect • history • stats)
• Costantino Mario Ruspoli, 4st Prince of Poggio Suasa → Costantino Mario Ruspoli, 4th Prince of Poggio Suasa (links to redirect • history • stats) 

Delete, not a useful redirect, one case of misspelling, but there are many ways for misspelling this title. There are no wikilinks to the redirect. It was created by moving a misspelled article.--Diwas (talk) 00:24, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• T:cite news → Template:cite news (links to redirect • history • stats)
• T:cite web → Template:cite web (links to redirect • history • stats)
• T:cite paper → Template:cite journal (links to redirect • history • stats)
• T:cite book → Template:cite book (links to redirect • history • stats) 

Created these because I found typing out Template:cite news and the rest a big bother when I wanted to look at their documentation. I was fixing references for a country article with over a hundred references so it was useful to be able to look them up quickly. Wikipedia:Namespace#Pseudo-namespaces seemed to support a more straightforward shortcut to the template namespace so I created the redirects. I created a discussion about it here: [1]. I find them useful. If Wikipedia wants to adopt and standardize another format they can be changed later. In the meantime I think they help more than not. Lambanog (talk) 14:23, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Shortcuts are good and well, but if they interfere with the actual encyclopedia, they need to be outstandingly useful. In this case, if only one editor appears to be using them, then I suggest to create bookmarks in your browser instead. Amalthea 15:19, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How do they interfere with the encyclopedia? I imagine they are not used that much because people aren't aware of them. Lambanog (talk) 17:18, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Or use with some scripts that could be added to your monobook or any skin you are using right now. In my three years in Wikipedia, I have never seen redirects for templates starting at "T". I always see template redirects as given by differences in language or it was formerly moved. For example,

WP:CROSS says that, basically, Template: namespace is named or created different from Wikipedia:, from File:, from User:, User talk:, Talk:, and so on to avoid confusion for the first place. Now, since only one editor uses it now, I agree with deleting it. Then, it is also justifiable to delete this: because only one editor uses it right now, it is almost uncertain to see that it can be into use in the future. --JL 09 ^_q?c 17:28, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply

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• Request to the developers to activate a namespace alias for templatespace... I suggest MSG, since that is the former name of templates, when they used to reside in articlespace. 76.66.192.206 (talk) 04:04, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Archstone Fox Plaza (links to redirect • history • stats
  ) 

Request speedy delete....mis-spelled emerson7 15:25, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment: In the future, you can request speedy deletion yourself by adding {{
  db-redirtypo}} to the top of the redirect, there's no need for a discussion. I've gone ahead and done that for you, and this can be closed whenever an admin comes around to delete it.  Glenfarclas  (talk) 20:56, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply
  ]

• Template:Cite blog → Template:Cite web (links to redirect • history • stats) 

Blog is not a reliable source Quest for Truth (talk) 15:16, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep, there are acceptable forms of blog that may be used for sourcing. Some news websites name their editorial sections as "Blogs", such as the BBC for example, yet these are still kept to high professional standards and are reliable, and only BBC reporters can publish to these blogs after going through an approval process. See
  WP:SPS, and the third cite-note present on the page. --Taelus (talk) 15:36, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• Keep, you might also want to cite a blog to, for instance, support a direct quotation from the individual.  Glenfarclas  (talk) 21:00, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep It is a common and baseless misconception that blogs cannot be reliable sources. The fact is that there are many blogs that are cited, and that should be cited, and this redirect serves to facilitate that. I created this redirect in the process of improving the
  featured article status. That alone should allay any concerns about the appropriety of such content.  Skomorokh  22:13, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• Keep Notable people sometimes have blogs where they state their opinions, and these opinions are sometimes worth citing. --Cybercobra (talk) 06:57, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete 99% of blogs fail
  WP:RS
  . In my view it's better to stop those problems before they arise. 13:28, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

• P.E. Complex → The Complex (Valdosta, Georgia) (links to redirect • history • stats) 

Suggest deletion of this redirect as linking an incredibly generic term to a very specific instance. Redirect or even disambiguation seems inappropriate simply because of the sheer number of possibilities.

• TC, Take Care → Parting phrase (links to redirect • history • stats) 

I could see the logic in take care being a redirect, but not this one. NJA (t/c) 09:49, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete, not a very likely thing to type; the article was created as an unnecessary dictdef. TTFN, redirect, ta-ta for now.  Glenfarclas  (talk) 21:06, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Unlikely search query. People don't usually type both an abbreviation and its full expansion in the search box. --Cybercobra (talk) 06:59, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: This redir's name is too unlikely to be searched for, I would think, for this to act as a plausible redirect. TheTito ^Discuss 10:39, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Mark Goddard (driver) → Mark Goddard (racing driver) (links to redirect • history • stats) 

Delete, as you can see it's redirecting to a redlink. Why is it there? --Falcadore (talk) 03:29, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Looks like an article was created at (driver), moved to (racing driver), and deleted on the ground, "biography unreferenced for over 3 years," but the redirect left behind was never cleaned up.  Glenfarclas  (talk) 07:58, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Speedy delete per db-G8. I have tagged it as such. (a redirect to a page which does not exist, has been deleted, or is itself currently tagged for speedy deletion.) --Taelus (talk) 08:31, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Metroplitan district council → Metropolitan borough (links to redirect • history • stats) 

delete, not a useful redirect, one case of misspelling, but there are many ways for misspelling this title. There are no wikilinks to the redirect.

• Delete, not a particularly likely misspelling, no more so than omitting any other letter. Seems to get around 8 hits in an average month.  Glenfarclas  (talk) 08:00, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]