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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:

• Misplaced Pages:Redirect – what redirects are, why they exist, and how they are used.
• Misplaced Pages:Criteria for speedy deletion – which pages can be deleted without discussion; in particular the "General" and "Redirects" sections.
• Misplaced Pages:Deletion policy – how we delete things by consensus.
• Misplaced Pages:Guide to deletion – guidelines on discussion format and shorthand.

The guiding principles of RfD

• WP:RGUIDE

• 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 Misplaced Pages: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 Misplaced Pages:Redirect/Deletion reasons. (edit | history)

• WP:RFD#HARMFUL
• WP:RFD?

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 Misplaced Pages 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

• WP:RFD#DELETE

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", it would take much longer to get to the newly added articles on Misplaced Pages.
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 "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.
4. The redirect constitutes self-promotion or spam. (Speedy deletion criterion G11 may apply.)
5. The redirect makes no sense, such as redirecting "Apple" to "Orange". (Speedy deletion criterion G1 may apply.)
6. It is a cross-namespace redirect out of article space, such as one pointing into the User or Misplaced Pages 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:, Misplaced Pages:, 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 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.)
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 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.
10. Shortcut
    • WP:RETURNTORED
    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

• WP:RFD#KEEP

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 Misplaced Pages: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 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.
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 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 Misplaced Pages: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 Misplaced Pages 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

• WP:RNEUTRAL

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}}.

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 Misplaced Pages in non-neutral terms. Such terms are generally avoided in Misplaced Pages 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

• WP:RFDHOWTO

• 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

June 26

C:WPCVG → CAT:WPCVG

New (2006-06-12) cross-namespace redirect moved to CAT:WPCVG, common style is Special:Prefixindex/CAT:, see also m:Help:Namespace manager. -- Omniplex 05:12, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Giant douche → George W. Bush

This redirect only points to George W. Bush and previously pointed to John Kerry. Silly and pointless either way it originally pointed. Basically its an offensive redirect. Kevin_b_er 05:06, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

C:UBT → CAT:UBT

New (2006-06-17) cross-namespace redirect moved to CAT:UBT, common style is Special:Prefixindex/CAT:, see also m:Help:Namespace manager. -- Omniplex 05:01, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

• Sorry for being dense, but what exactly in m:Help:Namespace manager says that we shouldn't have C: shortcuts? Why do we even use CAT: instead of the shorter C:? Kusma (討論) 05:07, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
• I think it says that "pseudo-namespaces" (like WP: or WM:) might be transformed into real namespaces. I can't tell you more about it, all I know is that help page, and from my POV Special:Namespaces is either invisible, or not (yet) enabled. No idea who invented CAT:CAT, check the history. It got some traction, see the "Prefixindex" link. Belatedly adding C: would only confuse it more than necessary, one vs. three characters is no huge gain. CAT for category could be also slightly more obvious than C for somebody who doesn't know it. -- Omniplex 05:23, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

June 25

Doweld → List of botanists by author abbreviation

Redirect would have its merit if there was actually such an entry in the list. Otherwise, if the linker/crator cannot be bothered to check the proper botanist, the redirectshould not exist. Circeus 01:43, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Louisville Communist Journal → The Courier-Journal

Not a plausible search term (if anyone actually does call the paper this, I really doubt they'd ever search for the nickname over the paper's real name). Seems to exist just to disparage the article it redirects to, see recent POV insertions into that article, which mention this phrase . W.marsh 23:15, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

C:CSD → CAT:CSD

redundant cross-namespace redirect, common style is CAT:, technical background at m:Help:Namespace manager -- Omniplex 19:56, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. Redundancy is not a decent reason for removal of a useful shortcut, that does no harm. Proto///type 22:04, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, CAT:CSD is short enough. — xaosflux 22:35, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. I use this shortcut all the time. Misplaced Pages ain't paper, and five characters is more convenient than 7. It irks me a bit, frankly, that I'm going to have to have to remember to type out CAT instead of C for a week until this gets closed. JDoorjam Talk 01:53, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, useful type-in shortcut, no collision with encyclopedic content has been shown. Once there are plans to introduce a C: namespace, we should certainly delete this, but why now? Kusma (討論) 02:30, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
• Strong keep since I use this shortcut very often, as I'm sure do other users.--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91 10:40, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

"augustus greely" → Adolphus Greely

really unuseful title (was stub), article since moved twice Zigger «º» 07:52, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Grandmasterka 20:14, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Ugly bags of mostly water → Human

umm... yeah. i was checking "what links here" and this stuck out as rather odd.

This has already been deleted once, so I've speedied it. — sjorford++ 10:46, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

The most annoying thing in the world → Crazy Frog

Yes it is annoying, but not that annoying. This redirect represents someone's non-neutral point of view. Omphaloscope » talk 08:35, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep; "The most annoying thing in the world" was actually the former name of the crazy frog, before it became a ringtone. smurrayinchester 08:44, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Smurrayinchester. As a side note, if you look at the beginning of the music video (approx 11th second to 17th second) you will see WANTED - the most annoying thing in the world. TheJC _{Contributions} 09:11, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

WP:0FA → User:Mboverload/Zero Featured Article, WP:*FA → User:Digitalme/Any Featured Article

WP redirects pointing to userspace essays; see WP:1FA's RFD. ~ PseudoSudo 22:01, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Delete, sure, I see.--digital_me 22:49, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

June 24

Categories for deletion → Misplaced Pages:Categories for deletion

Cross-namespace redirect. --Mr. Lefty _{Talk to me!} 22:11, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

• Oppose So what, it's useful. Osomec 16:28, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per precedents for cross-namespace redirects. Mr. Osomec is ignoring the fact that even without this redirect, Misplaced Pages:Categories for deletion will still show up - in position 1 - in the search results, so there is no chance that removing this will cause anyone to lose their way to CfD. Kimchi.sg 18:04, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - main namespace pollution. -- Omniplex 20:05, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - useful, as many people forget to type in the "Misplaced Pages:" namespace tag before.--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91 10:43, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Request for adminship → Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship

Cross-namespace redirect. --Mr. Lefty _{Talk to me!} 22:09, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

• Oppose Obviously useful. Osomec 16:30, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - non-encyclopedic main namespace pollution. -- Omniplex 20:08, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - useful, as many people forget to type in the "Misplaced Pages:" namespace tag before.--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91 10:44, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Requests for Adminship → Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship

Cross-namespace redirect. --Mr. Lefty _{Talk to me!} 22:08, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Yanksox 22:09, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose Obviously useful. Osomec 16:31, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - non-encyclopedic main namespace pollution. It already has a shortcut. -- Omniplex 20:11, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Tuçe Kazaz → Tuğçe Kazaz

Typing error while moving from Tugçe Kazaz. CeeGee 15:02, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep redir created as a result of a plausible typo. Kimchi.sg 10:34, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Autopista → Autopistas de Puerto Rico

Autopistas are found in others countries, including Spain. Autopista really deserves its own article, but until it has one, redirecting to a list of only Puerto Rican ones would be confusing. smurrayinchester 10:03, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Devarajan/Filmography → Filmography of G. Devarajan

together with G. Devarajan/Filmography these are pointless and undesirable redirects left over after I moved the page to a more policy complient title. Eluchil404 03:47, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

BATTLE OF HALDIGHAT → Battle of Haldighat

Doesn't quite meet CSD R3, but I think it's unnecessary and implausible. –Dicty (T/C) 12:49, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

James Brady (disambiguation) (disambiguation) → James Brady (disambiguation)

Nobody is going to type "(disambiguation) (disambiguation)" in the search box. —EdGl 18:52, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

• Speedy Delete - R3 (unlikely typo) Timrem 19:01, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

June 23

Articles for deletion → Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion

Self-referential cross-namespace redirect. Deleted by Cyde (talk • contribs) on 15 June 2006, recreated by Calsicol (talk • contribs) on 22 June 2006. There was one incoming link, which I have now changed to point directly to Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion – Gurch 14:01, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

• Speedy delete, if possible, as db-repost. --Zoz (t) 14:14, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Plant Vagina → Flower

Not a term one would use to find "flower"; nor is it biologically accurate. Flowers contain both male and female organs; and platns have nothing resembling a penis or a vagina. Looks like someone being naughty to me. If anyone with better biological knowledge than I thinks this is appropriate, though, I'll quickly change my mind. EngineerScotty 05:52, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

• Whoops, it got speedied. --EngineerScotty 05:52, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Votes for deletion → Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion

Cross namespace redirect Yanksox 05:09, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete as cross-namespace redirect. --Zoz (t) 12:15, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep: useful to the many wikipedians who still have the term "votes for deletion" in their heads. AndyJones 12:25, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

  Comment: Those Wikipedians should type Misplaced Pages:Votes for deletion. --Zoz (t) 13:35, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

  Or even WP:VFD. No reason to have a cross-namespace redirect for that (and since articles for deletion is red, it's not even like it's the same thing as for people with AfD in their heads). --Rory096 06:27, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete all cross-namespace redirects. — sjorford++ 14:21, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep unless you plan on fixing those 1,500 links. - Keith D. Tyler ¶ (AMA) 20:59, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

  Comment: User:Rory096 has a bot to fix this. --Zoz (t) 22:17, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep for the reasons stated above. Still widely used by many Wikipedians. I know there's a thing against "cross namespace redirects" (whatever the heck that means) but IMO this should be an exception to the rule. I also feel few Wikipedians know to (nor give a darn to) type "Misplaced Pages:...." before these things. As far as they're concerned, these pages are part of Misplaced Pages. If none of that is convincing, then I'm claiming the redirect should be kept as per points #3 and 5 under "avoid deleting such redirects if..." in the "When should we delete a redirect?" section, below. Plus there appears to be a precedent for VFD being kept as a redirect. (AFD goes to a disambiguation page so it doesn't count). 23skidoo 21:54, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

  Comment: VFD is not a precedent as it is not a cross-namespace redirect. And VfD had its target changed--Zoz (t) 22:17, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

• Convert to soft redirect to discourage cross-namespace redirection. Failing that, delete and repoint all incoming links. AmiDaniel (talk) 21:58, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete after orphaning. — TKD::Talk 03:41, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Self referential, needless. --Rory096 06:27, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. This isn't even a valid Misplaced Pages term anymore. -- JLaTondre 13:17, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, it's a cross-namespace redirect (thus violating WP:ASR) and I've orphaned it. --Cyde↔Weys 15:53, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as a cross-namespace redirect, and one whos meaning we want to discourage anyway. --Hetar 05:27, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Obviously useful. Osomec 16:32, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - non-encyclopedic main namespace pollution. The target also has several shortcuts. -- Omniplex 20:15, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

June 22

Aetherometry → Aether theories

Aetherometry isn't mentioned at all on the Aether theories page, and it is very different from the theories discussed there. It doesn't really have too much in common with aether theories at all, concentrating more on things like leukemia early warning kits and measurements with no uncertainty. Philosophus 21:07, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

• turn in to stub article perhaps the best thing is to make this a short stub article with a definition of what the term does mean. --Salix alba (talk) 10:38, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Pearland JROTC → George W. Bush

No apparent connection, former target was deleted, see Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Pearland Army JROTC. Rory096 08:22, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Warren wickman → Warren Wickman

Target deleted Johndarrington 01:42, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Talk:Path integral → Talk:Line integral

Path integral has been rewritten as a disambig, so this seems unnecessary. (I reverted blanking of the redirect, as I feel that it would be better if it were deleted entirely, and it's better discussed as an RfD than an MfD.) — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 00:34, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

June 21

Swirl → Swirl (band)

Since the addition of the swirl (organization) page there are now two swirl pages. I'm thinking that the Swirl redirect shouldn't direct to just one of them because if you search for swirl meaning to find the organization you won't be able to find it. Rugadh 21:32, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright tags → Misplaced Pages:Image copyright tags

Cross-space redirect. SCHZMO ✍ 21:18, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. feydey 07:05, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Yanksox 05:12, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. — TKD::Talk 03:43, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - non-encyclopedic main namespace pollution. -- Omniplex 20:16, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Image tags → Misplaced Pages:Image copyright tags

Cross-space redirect SCHZMO ✍ 21:17, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. feydey 07:06, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. — TKD::Talk 03:43, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - non-encyclopedic main namespace pollution. -- Omniplex 20:17, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Schlong → Penis

I don't beleive that this should be deleted, as it is conceivable that someone might search "Schlong" on Misplaced Pages; however, the {{rfd}} tag was placed on it by 194.66.185.193 at 10:29 on 19 June 2006, so I feel duty-bound to list it here. In other words: keep. Lockesdonkey 20:05, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. I didn't know what a penis was, but I now know it is a schlong. Misplaced Pages's so damned useful. Seriously, though, keep. Seems an obvious redirect. David L Rattigan 20:08, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep; common slang term, and deters duplicate article creation. — TKD::Talk 03:43, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

A VC → Fred Wilson (venture capitalist)

Redirect to deleted article Bugwit grunt / scribbles 10:48, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Shain → Babe: Pig in the City

Makes no sense. _Wizard @ 08:00, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Sqwirl → Image:Manet,_Edouard_-_The_Absinthe_Drinker.jpg

Makes no sense. _Wizard @ 07:58, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Fuck Misplaced Pages → Criticism of Misplaced Pages

Pretentious, useless. Kookykman|(t)e 15:44, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Cake Sniffer → Lemony Snicket

- What does the insult Cake Sniffer have to do with the author/character from The Series of Unfortunite Events? All systems go 17:45, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep, but change target to Carmelita Spats, the character who actually uses the (fictional) insult. smurrayinchester 20:28, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

• Done. This seems appropriate, since the term is discussed on that page. Keep --Philosophus 00:05, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Twentysomething → Twentysomething (disambig)

I'm trying to do a complicated sort of reshuffling to merge Twenty something into its correct spelling Twentysomething while still preserving the talk page and without deleting either page's information. So, basically, I need this page freed up to complete the merge myself. KyleGarvey 19:29, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

• This should be at Misplaced Pages:Requested moves. --Rory096 08:21, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
  • I'm going to do the move myself, if someone deletes the page. Or at least, I'd prefer to. KyleGarvey 18:11, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
    • It should still go to WP:RM, because it relates to a page move. — sjorford++ 18:30, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

June 20

Richard Sharpe Story Plots → Misplaced Pages:Richard Sharpe Story Plots

Cross-space redirect created by move —Mira 05:11, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. — TKD::Talk 07:27, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. --Zoz (t) 12:14, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Napoleonic/Sharpe:Wikiproject → Misplaced Pages:Richard Sharpe Story Plots

Cross-space redirect created by move —Mira 05:11, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. — TKD::Talk 07:27, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. --Zoz (t) 12:14, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Template:Monopoly → Template:LondonMonopolyBoard

The Monopoly template was just a copy of the London game board layout of the board game Monopoly, copied from the Monopoly (game) page. I considered the template name to be too generic, moved the content to Template:LondonMonopolyBoard, and made the necessary change in the article. Nothing now links to Template:Monopoly; it could be deleted. JohnDBuell 01:26, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

• Moved from WP:TfD.--SomeStranger 20:14, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete the redirect is not appropriate as there are multiple versions of the game monopoly. There is no one "official" version that deserves this redirect.--SomeStranger 20:14, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. — TKD::Talk 07:27, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. --Arnzy 01:38, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. --Zoz (t) 12:14, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Integrated Science, Business, and Technology → Integrated Science, Business and Technology

Target article was deleted qswitch426 18:02, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

• Speedy delete, R1. --Rory096 18:05, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Integrated Science Business and Technology → Integrated Science, Business and Technology

Target article deleted qswitch426 17:59, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

• Speedy delete, R1. --Rory096 18:06, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Andy anggianto → User:Fiexe

Cross-space redirect Fram 13:24, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. --Zoz (t) 13:31, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above. - Tangotango 13:33, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Dismas| 13:51, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Ac1983fan (talk • contribs) 14:01, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy delete, R2. --Rory096 17:54, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Multiple unofficial anthems → National Anthem of Scotland

No obvious logical connection: if someone would look for "multiple unofficial anthems" (however improbable that is), there is no reason for them to expect to be carried to the one for Scotland Fram 13:16, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Any unofficial anthem could refer to any country --Arnzy 13:18, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. --Zoz (t) 13:31, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as misleading. - Tangotango 13:38, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
• Comment, cool the beans... the redirect only exists due to the original author misnaming the article (or rather, naming it as it would appear in text) and it then being moved. /wangi 20:03, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
• Change target to National anthem. I have already done so for Multiple unofficial Anthems.-Mathew5000 05:41, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
• Change target to National anthem. — TKD::Talk 07:27, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Bartholomew (Spyro charcacter) → Bentley (Spyro character)

Typo by the Wikipedian creating the article. Actual article was Bartholomew (Spyro character), which has since been merged into Bentley (Spyro character) for lack of notability. No further edit history or apparent internal links to the old redirect. Stratadrake 12:56, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Clarifying: I've already merged the Bartholomew article's info into the article for Bentley and changed the old article (Bartholomew (Spyro character)) into a redirect. That was when I noticed the redirect in question, Bartholomew (Spyro charcacter). --Stratadrake 00:24, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep or change destination to Spyro the Dragon (series), depending on how related "Bartholomew" and "Bentley" are. - Tangotango 13:35, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Note that not Bartholomew but "charcater" was misspelled. Implausible typo. --Zoz (t) 13:39, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as typo per Zoz. --Arnzy 01:39, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, very implausible typo, borderline r3. --Rory096 18:02, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

March 27, 1964 → Good Friday Earthquake

If an article for a date is to be created, (which I would oppose, as we don't have any dates around there), it should be an ARTICLE, not a redirect. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 02:08, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. I don't see anything wrong with this; lots of dates are redirects, e.g. July 8, 2002. It's not so unlikely that someone might type a date into the search box looking for a specific event. For example, if you type July 20, 1969 into the search box, you should be taken directly to Apollo 11.--Mathew5000 03:36, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment: July 8, 2002 redirects to July 2002. A redirect to a different date is different than a redirect to a specific event. July 20, 1969 taking you to Apollo 11 would be a surprise for those looking for the end of the Football War. It shouldn't be Misplaced Pages's job to prioritize one article over another. However, March 27 doesn't list anything else for 1964 so it's not currently an issue in this case. -- JLaTondre 10:39, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
• Change target to 1964. Less confusing over the long run. — TKD::Talk 07:27, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - this date should be linked as March 27, 1964, so March 27, 1964 shouldn't be redirected anywhere. — sjorford++ 15:07, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
• Comment: A redirect at this article was previously deleted, and if I remember correctly, one of its incarnations was this very version. Perhaps a speedy as {{db-repost}}? — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 16:58, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. I don't think any individual date should redirect to an event. Kusma (討論) 17:02, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

July 1979 → July

or perhaps, it's redirecting to 1979. In any case, we don't have any nearby month/year articles or redirects. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 02:08, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

"Comment Spam Number Mystery" → Comment spam number mystery

No sensible reason why this would ever be referenced with quotes around it, most likely a mistake that was then redirected, but should probably be deleted now Gnewf 19:52, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

• Speedy delete, R3. --Rory096 22:28, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

My Chemical Romance → You know what they do to guys like us in prison

It is a song that should have its own page and not get redirected to the band. All systems go 23:41, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

I guess you want to delete the redirect You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison pointing to My Chemical Romance. If you want to create an article about the song, just do so, the redirect does not have to be deleted for that. See the top of this page. Kusma (討論) 23:59, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

June 19

Wikipediest → Misplaced Pages:Wikipedians

Cross-namespace redirect. AmiDaniel (talk) 20:40, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Wp wikipedians → Misplaced Pages:Wikipedians

Cross-namespace redirect. AmiDaniel (talk) 20:36, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Wp list of wikipedians → Misplaced Pages:Wikipedians

Cross-namespace redirect, trying to be some sort of odd shortcut. AmiDaniel (talk) 20:35, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedist → Misplaced Pages:Wikipedians

Cross-namespace redirect. AmiDaniel (talk) 20:32, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages community → Misplaced Pages:Wikipedians

Yet another cross-namespace redirect. AmiDaniel (talk) 20:22, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Wikipede → Misplaced Pages:Wikipedians

Unhelpful cross-namespace redirect. Only two incoming links. AmiDaniel (talk) 20:20, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

WikiPedians → Misplaced Pages:Wikipedians

Cross-namespace, CamelCase redirect with no particularly useful history and only two incoming links. AmiDaniel (talk) 20:07, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

--Rory096 06:17, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

List of cartoon and comic character pairs → List of comic and cartoon character pairs

Reason Target page non-existant CPAScott 19:05, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Barine → Arvède Barine

The name "Barine" used to result in a long list of possible entries that use this last name, this list is bypassed if this redirect remains. Bob em 16:57, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Like what other entries? Aside from Arvède, the only other Barine seems to be a character in a play by Sartre . --Mathew5000 21:47, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

• Comment, I have no problem making it into a dab page if there are other entries... but looking through the edit history there was the redirect or just " ]" which didn't automatically redirect... so, I'll say keep unless there is a dab page. gren グレン 22:09, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Do No Harm(Tv Episode) → Do No Harm (Lost)

No one would type this in, people will be able to find the correct article by visiting Do No Harm. Also no links to the page.TomcageTalk Contribs 10:48, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Edit: no links except a disambiguation page which is listed for deletion and another redirect which I am about to list. TomcageTalk Contribs 10:51, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom -Goldom ‽‽‽ ⁂ 17:00, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. --Wisden17 20:42, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Do No Harm(TV Episode) → Do No Harm(Tv Episode)

Redirect to another redirect. Unrequired as no one will type this in. No links to the page. TomcageTalk Contribs 10:53, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom and above RfD too. -Goldom ‽‽‽ ⁂ 17:00, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per my above comment. --Wisden17 20:45, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

June 18

Knob rot → Gonorrhoea

nonsense redirect, original article was submitted for speedy deletion whoda 21:23, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete nonsense--Jusjih 00:40, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Probably someone's made up term for it, I don't think this is a valid slang term. If someone brings forward a source it could be saved. Grandmasterka 02:13, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete would set a dangerous precendent. --Wisden17 20:43, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above. --Arnzy 13:14, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as people may type in this phrase to find out what it means - I've heard this English slang phrase used whilst living in the South-East of England, as well as the North-West. see: , (possibly not the best site: , although it does explain the phrase in the contexts I've heard it), (although it is a UK Government forum, Anne's post explains its meaning to someone who hasn't heard of it before), and Template:Pdf (page 11). TheJC _{Contributions} 23:04, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

June 17

Blank map → Misplaced Pages:Blank maps

Cross-namespace redirect. Mathew5000 20:39, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Adam Wang → User:MUBOTE

Cross-namespace redirect. Mr. Lefty _{Talk to me!} 16:18, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Tawkerbot → User:Tawkerbot

... Rory096 14:42, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Shadow the Hedgehog (video game features) → Shadow the Hedgehog (video game)

Unlikely to be entered into the search bar. ' 04:21, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

It is useful in discouraging recreation of a deleted page. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 04:42, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Can't page protections be used for that? ' 04:58, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Right, but then it would be a {{deletedpage}}. Redirects are always better than random pages with self-references in them that are completely useless. --Rory096 14:43, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

• Comment, that redirect was created when those pages where merged together. I am not making a vote here, though. Ac1983fan (talk • contribs) 14:04, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
  • There doesn't appear to be any history there, and the result of the AfD was delete, not merge. Keep anyway, redirects are cheap. --Rory096 17:56, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Bad-lad and trap-bath splits and æ-tensing → Phonological history of English short A

Odd redirect. No one's going to type in this looking for the phonological history of English short a. I wonder why this redirect was created? Voortle 23:43, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

• It looks like the article was created there in the first place, in which case, keep to prevent anybody recreating it. Redirects are cheap, and "odd" is not a worthwhile reason for deleting. — sjorford++ 13:55, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete then add {{deletedpage}} to the redirecting page. Ac1983fan (talk • contribs) 14:06, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Er......why? {{deletedpage}} is a last resort, only to be used for acts of repetitive vandalism. There's nothing like that here. — sjorford++ 17:05, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per sjorford. — TKD::Talk 07:20, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Requested pictures → Misplaced Pages:Requested pictures

Needless orphaned cross-namespace redirect. Rory096 18:55, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Direct logic → Direct Logic

article doesn't exist — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 17:49, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

• Speedy delete, R1. --Rory096 17:53, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

WAITES → Waits

If someone's looking for an article on waits they're not going to type it in ALL CAPS. – ∅ (∅), 10:30, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom.--SomeStranger 12:12, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. --Wisden17 20:38, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Ac1983fan (talk • contribs) 14:05, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Kutter → Anton_Kutter

Redirect should be removed and replaced by a disambiguation page referring to Anton Kutter and Hermann Kutter 84.150.250.197 11:21, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

• DONE - article is now a disambig page for all instances of Kutter I could find - Peripitus (Talk) 11:23, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Bolos, got to love them... or else! → ]

Appears to be a pointless redir, has only one contributer with one edit, the contributer was in fact queried about it roughly 7 months ago to no avail whoda 11:57, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. --Zoz (t) 13:20, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Unlikely to be searched for, no significant history or incoming links. - Tangotango 09:54, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Traci → Tracy Brookshaw

There is more than one Traci, but I don't think we should go down the path of disambig pages by first name. JLaTondre 13:39, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

• Why not? — Jun. 17, '06 <freak|talk>
  • There are exceptions to any generalization as there are famous first names. However, in general a disambig page based upon a common first name is going to pretty useless & hard to maintain when it starts reaching into the 100s of articles. -- JLaTondre 00:58, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. She's not Elvis. Fan1967 00:49, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
• Comment I'm tempted to say that this should redirect to Tracy, a disambig page as a possible mispelling, though I'm not sure if that is the best course of action. Looking to see what others think. Cowman109 01:02, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

• Comment Seems reasonable. Checking the "Traci" articles we have () finds pretty much Traci Lords the most notable of the few listed, and she's included on the Tracy DAB page, as are people with other spellings like "Tracey". Fan1967 02:37, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

• In that case... Change target to Tracy per comments above. Cowman109 04:34, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to Tracy as a common spelling variant, and add notable people named "Traci" to the list. — Jun. 18, '06 <freak|talk>

Protologism → Misplaced Pages:Avoid neologisms

There's a bit of history here. Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Protologism was closed as delete on 23 March this year. The article was recreated as a redirect a couple of days later, and the redirect was listed here immediately. The RfD did not lead to a consensus, so when I closed it I decided to make the article a soft redirect to wikt:protologism, which I judged to be a good compromise between the various positions taken at the RfD debate (see Misplaced Pages:Redirects for deletion/Redirect Archives/March 2006#March 27). However, this soft redirect did not last long. I'm bringing the redirect up again in the hope that we now do manage to get a consensus.

Personally, I think cross-namespace redirects are to be avoided. I don't think this one is useful enough that it merits ignoring the rule. Thus, delete. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 14:15, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete would my preference. {{wi}} would be better than a cross namespace redirect. This word does have some (minor) usage outside of Misplaced Pages and Misplaced Pages should not be claiming it for its own. -- JLaTondre 14:51, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
  • It has only very minimal such use and none of it something approaching a reliable source. -Splash - tk 15:26, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• We had this before, and it should have been deleted then. The only reason this breathes is that someone rather unhelpfully created it as a redirect after AfD had correctly deleted it. Misplaced Pages does not collect navel-gazing neologisms, by redirect or otherwise. And before someone says "but we have X other neologistic redirect", well, yes, perhaps we do, and we should delete that too. -Splash - tk 15:26, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom and Splash. Joe 16:51, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• Note that Freakofnurture has some difficult allowing this debate to remain open, presumably as he disagrees with its premise. He's closed it 3 times now, and I've re-opened it. Please would someone keep an eye out, thanks. -Splash - tk 16:52, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy redirect to neologism, a clear alternative to a cross-namespace redirect and simply an editorial action. --Rory096 17:46, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Actually, the previous RfD said it should be a soft redirect to wikt:protologism, and Splash made that into a cross-namespace redirect. I still think neologism, which is what it was before the last RfD, is a better target, though. --Rory096 17:49, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
    • Soft redirects are an oxymoron anyway. — Jun. 17, '06 <freak|talk>
  • It is no more acceptable to retain a neologism as a redirect than it is any other form. It is just slack editorial standards not to delete this. -Splash - tk 19:21, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
    • Sure it is. Redirects are cheap, and this is used by at least a few outside people. It's harmless. --Rory096 21:06, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
      • The problem with retargeting to neologism is that that article hardly mentions "protologism" and does not explain what it is. I think redirects should only be used if the target page actually explains the term. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 04:22, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
        • True, but it would redirect to a related term that links to wikt:protologism, so it's better than just nothing at all. --Rory096 15:06, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
• Change target to neologism per Rory. Kusma (討論) 17:55, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• Change target to neologism per Rory. --Mathew5000 20:31, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
• Change target as above. Ac1983fan (talk • contribs) 14:08, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Jitse Niesen and Splash. Minor concerns that including this redirect in article space violates WP:NEO and WP:SELF. --Muchness 14:20, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to neologism, as per above, and as per previous closures by two separate administrators, both of which were reverted by Splash. — Jun. 20, '06 <freak|talk>
• Redirect to neologism, and for what it's worth, I don't think the repeated reversion of the closure of this RFD was at all appropriate. --Cyde↔Weys 04:33, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
• Bandwagon speedy change target to neologism; also, maybe add a line in that article about this term referring to a proposed new word. BD2412 T 04:38, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
• Comment It seems there is a realistic chance that Wiktionary will delete their article on wikt:protologism, on the grounds that it's a protologism itself. See wikt:WT:LOP#P. Therefore, the soft redirect option possibly won't work. ais523 10:46, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
  • This is an excellent reason for Misplaced Pages to delete it as well. WP does not collect neologisms, and surely if the project that does doesn't want this one, we don't keep it either. We're just being soft, when we have clear practise and input from elsewhere telling us to get a grip. -Splash - tk 15:20, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Uh, no there isn't. It was listed at RfV by a new user, who didn't say anything but that it's a protologism. There are 4 sources, it'll easily pass RfV. What makes you think it'll be deleted? --Rory096 06:30, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

June 16

Psalm 82 → Yam (god)

Misleading. zafiroblue05 | Talk 00:09, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Another option would be to change target to Psalms. -- JLaTondre 12:28, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• Fix - clearly this should go to Psalms per JLaTondre which has been done - Peripitus (Talk) 12:52, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• Fix - change target to Psalms per above editors. --Arnzy 13:19, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Marc scibilia → Marc scibilia(Singer) → Marc Scibilia(Singer)

One's a double-redirect; and they both lead to an empty page up for speedy --EngineerScotty 20:11, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

William_Annis → Billy_Annis

See William annis RFD below. LordMcD 18:41, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

William_annis → Billy_Annis

There are only two articles linking to William annis; one is looking for Billy Annis and the other is not, which confusingly leads people to believe that an English footballer is in an synthpop band. LordMcD 18:41, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

toolkit → Widget toolkit

there exist other toolkits than widget toolkits e.g. Toolkits for User Innovation Zigo1232 09:49, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

June 15

As of version, As of version 1.0, As of version 3.2, As of version 4.0 → Misplaced Pages:As of version

CSRs. Invitatious 23:19, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. -- JLaTondre 14:57, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Articles needing attention, Pages needing attention, Misplaced Pages utilities/Pages needing attention → Misplaced Pages:Pages needing attention

CNRs. Invitatious 23:19, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. --Zoz (t) 13:06, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. -- JLaTondre 14:57, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Blank maps → Misplaced Pages:Blank maps

Cross-namespace redirect SCHZMO ✍ 22:57, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. --Zoz (t) 13:06, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. -- JLaTondre 14:57, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Australian Mathematics Competition → Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Australian Mathematics Competition

CSR to closed AfD discussion. Invitatious 22:56, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. --Zoz (t) 13:06, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. -- JLaTondre 14:57, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

19xx in Australia → Misplaced Pages:Australian Wikipedians' notice board/19xx in Australia

Obvious CSR. (I'm tired already. There's lots of them!) Invitatious 22:50, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Speedy keep. It's not even a redirect. See 1990 in Australia for example. --Zoz (t) 13:06, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Sorry, I misunderstood. --Zoz (t) 13:07, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. -- JLaTondre 14:57, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Article deletion → Misplaced Pages:Deletion Policy

CSR.Invitatious 22:39, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Yanksox 05:01, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. --Zoz (t) 13:06, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. -- JLaTondre 14:57, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Article improvement drive → Misplaced Pages:Article Improvement Drive

CSR.Invitatious 22:39, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. --Zoz (t) 13:10, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. -- JLaTondre 14:57, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Article merge → Misplaced Pages:Proposed mergers

CSR.Invitatious 22:39, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. --Zoz (t) 13:10, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. -- JLaTondre 14:57, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Article series → Misplaced Pages:Article series

CSR.Invitatious 22:39, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. --Zoz (t) 13:10, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. -- JLaTondre 14:57, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Articles for Creation → Misplaced Pages:Articles for creation

CSR.Invitatious 22:39, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. --Zoz (t) 13:10, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. -- JLaTondre 14:57, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Articles for Deletion → Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion

CSR.Invitatious 22:39, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. --Zoz (t) 13:10, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. -- JLaTondre 14:57, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Armenian cuisine → Category:Armenian cuisine

CSR. Invitatious 22:33, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. -- JLaTondre 14:57, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Are You a Wikipediholic Test → Misplaced Pages:Are You a Wikipediholic Test

CSR. Invitatious 22:24, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. --Zoz (t) 13:10, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. -- JLaTondre 14:57, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

BC-FedRep → Template:BC-FedRep (and MANY OTHERS)

Main space to Template redirect. AB-FedRep deleted below, but not the others. I was also nominating, in addition to the redirect above, MB-FedRep, NB-FedRep, NL-FedRep, NS-FedRep, NT-FedRep, NU-FedRep, ON-FedRep, PE-FedRep, PQ-FedRep → Template:QC-FedRep, QC-FedRep, SK-FedRep, VA-FedRep, YK-FedRep → Template:YT-FedRep, YT-FedRep. All have the same redirect pattern unless otherwise noted. Invitatious 22:21, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete all per nom. -- JLaTondre 14:57, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Arbitration Committee → Misplaced Pages:Arbitration Committee

I'm pretty sure it isn't specific to Misplaced Pages. Invitatious 21:48, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. --Zoz (t) 13:10, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. -- JLaTondre 14:57, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Archaean/Infobox → Template:Archaean Infobox

What do you think it is? Invitatious 21:43, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Being a dick → Misplaced Pages:Don't be a dick

CSR linking to essay on meta:Don't be a dick. Invitatious 21:33, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. --Zoz (t) 13:10, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. -- JLaTondre 14:57, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete gren グレン 19:07, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

ISB number → ISBN

I personally have no idea what the "N" part is for, but I have never came across a book which states the "ISB number". Plus, any search engine hits are un-releated to each other. Kilo-Lima| 18:06, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete Keep (redirects are cheap, this one won't do harm 21:33, 15 June 2006 (UTC)). ISBN stands for International Standard Book Number. I would understand the purpose of ISBN number, but not ISB number. But maybe it actually has a purpose. Invitatious 19:34, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep, unlikely but possible search term, avoids redundant acronym. smurrayinchester 20:23, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, even if it's not used much, it's harmless. Redirects are cheap. --Rory096 21:27, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Rory096 --WinHunter 04:39, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - it's harmless. - Richardcavell 05:29, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Redirects are cheap. --Zoz (t) 13:16, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep per EA, Invit, and Rory, although ISBN number is, unfortunately, a more common locution (as UPC code). We should probably block indefinitely anyone who uses ISBN number... :) Joe 16:54, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep I've seen "ISB number" used, very occaisionally. Kim Bruning 18:59, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, no reason for deletion. --Cyde↔Weys 19:02, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

"TCC" → The Casual Courier

quoted string, bypassing TCC disambig page, etc. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 18:02, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per my comments at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/"TCC" - BigDT 20:22, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
• Change target to TCC, or just delete as an implausible typo. --Rory096 21:28, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages is gay → Misplaced Pages

POV and offensive name. SCHZMO ✍ 14:03, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Deleted anyway. Kilo-Lima| 18:01, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Goehring → Hermann Göring

I'm guessing the sole purpose of this is for an uncyclopedia page Qqqqqqq 14:02, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep This one seems useful to me because (a) it's a common English spelling; (b) he's certainly the most famous person of that name. Fan1967 14:25, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Note also that Goering, another common English spelling, also redirects to Hermann Göring. - Fan1967 21:41, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep per Fan1967. --Zoz (t) 16:24, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - blimey. The target does not exist in the English language. - Richardcavell 05:31, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Be bald (sic) → Misplaced Pages:Be bold in updating pages

I don't know what my reason for nomination is. Cross-space redirect maybe? Invitatious 13:39, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• WP:BJAODN and Delete --Zoz (t) 14:13, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete; Crossnamespace and there's enough alopecia related humour already. smurrayinchester 20:25, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. -- JLaTondre 14:57, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Smurrayinchester. - Tangotango 09:55, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Assume Good Faith → Misplaced Pages:Assume good faith

Also: Assume good intent, Assumed good faith, Assuming bad faith, Assuming good faith. Not specific to Misplaced Pages. Invitatious 13:31, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Yanksox 13:42, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
• Change target for the good intent/faith ones to good faith. Change the bad faith one to bad faith. Johnleemk | Talk 15:01, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
• Change target per Johnleemk. --Zoz (t) 16:24, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Change target Assume Good Faith - this one is important for newbies who may see the term referenced, but not know about namespaces. Delete the "assuming" and "assumed" ones - they are useless. BigDT 17:26, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
  • That's a bad idea. Keeping the hard redirect encourages people to use this link, violating our self-referential style guide. The soft redirect as provided at good faith works better. Johnleemk | Talk 17:50, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
    • I see your point then ... as long as someone typing in "Assume Good Faith" can get to WP:AGF, that's reasonable. I still suggest delete on the others - they are useless. BigDT 20:33, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Animated Films by Bill Plympton → Template:Animated Films by Bill Plympton

CSR to template space. Implausible search as well. Invitatious 13:25, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. --Zoz (t) 16:24, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Appropriate tone → Misplaced Pages:Guide to writing better articles

Cross-space redirect. Term does not only apply to Misplaced Pages. Invitatious 13:17, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. --Zoz (t) 16:24, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Anetode/Death-stub → Template:Death-stub

CSR. Invitatious 02:47, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete useless, should have tagged it myself. ˉˉ╞┬╡ 03:29, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
• Userfy or delete. I think it was supposed to be in User:Anedode's userspace. --Rory096 04:33, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
  • No, it was indeed promoted to stub status, see Category:Death stubs ˉˉ╞┬╡ 05:34, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
    • Right, I was just referring to the redirect. If you don't want it, though, then delete. --Rory096 06:28, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
      • Oh ok, sorry. ˉˉ╞┬╡ 06:33, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

And now for something completely different... Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense! → Misplaced Pages:And now for something completely different... Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense!

Useless unused cross space redirect. Invitatious 02:45, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete Useless and silly. Who's going to type that in? Why have such a cross-space redirect. Looks like someone just couldn't be bothered typing 'Misplaced Pages:' at the beginning of their link. Skittle 11:58, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, if somehow this is kept make sure to label it as a self-ref. gren グレン 12:16, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. --Zoz (t) 16:24, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Aluminum alloys → Category:Aluminium alloys

Cross space redirect. Invitatious 02:40, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep I like this sort of redirect as it helps people find what they're looking for, no problem with a self reference or users getting lost between encyclopedia space and crazy Misplaced Pages/User space. Mak (talk) 04:25, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep --Brownlee 10:27, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Why? This is not a vote. --Rory096 21:14, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Airports in Bosnia and Herzegovina → Category:Airports in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Cross space redirect. Invitatious 02:31, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Airlines of Bosnia and Herzegovina → Category:Airlines of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Cross space redirect. Invitatious 02:31, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

AIO category redirect → Category:Adventures in Odyssey

Obvious Invitatious 02:26, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete I'm mystified as to how it came about. Mak (talk) 04:25, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Aerospace museum → Category:Aerospace museums

Cross-space redirect. What should this be changed to? Invitatious 02:21, 15 June 2006 (UTC) Also Air museum. 02:28, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Adolf Hitler/Infobox → Template:HitlerInfo

Cross-space redirect. Nothing links here. Invitatious 02:17, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

AdelSuburbBox → Template:AdelSuburbBox

Redirect from main space to template. Invitatious 02:17, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

A template for making year pages → Misplaced Pages:Timeline standards

Obvious. Cross-namespace redirect, and implausible search. Invitatious 02:08, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. --Zoz (t) 16:25, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

AB-FedRep → Template:AB-FedRep et al.

Main space to Template redirect. Invitatious 02:08, 15 June 2006 (UTC) Also nominating BC-FedRep, MB-FedRep, NB-FedRep, NL-FedRep, NS-FedRep, NT-FedRep, NU-FedRep, ON-FedRep, PE-FedRep, PQ-FedRep → Template:QC-FedRep, QC-FedRep, SK-FedRep, VA-FedRep, YK-FedRep → Template:YT-FedRep, YT-FedRep. All have the same redirect pattern unless otherwise noted. Invitatious 21:10, 15 June 2006 (UTC) 21:19, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

AD/CE → Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)

Should this be changed to AD, CE, or simply deleted? Invitatious 01:46, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Change target to Common Era. The Common Era page appears to be more devoted to describing the usage of AD vs. CE, whereas the Anno Domini page gives only a passing mention of CE. Lbbzman 02:48, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
• Change target to Common Era per Lbbzman. --Zoz (t) 16:24, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

2012 US Presidential Election → Misplaced Pages:Votes for deletion/U.S. presidential election, 2012

Redirect from Main space to old VfD discussion. Invitatious 01:36, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. --Zoz (t) 16:24, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

2006 AFL season/Ladder → Template:2006 AFL season/"Simple" Ladder

Unlinked Main space to Template redirect, also 2006 AFL Season/Ladder. Invitatious 01:36, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. -- JLaTondre 10:51, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

2005 Britannica takeover of Wikimedia → Misplaced Pages:2005 Britannica takeover of Wikimedia

Main space to April Fool's joke redirect. The main space is for encyclopaedic content only. Also nominating other redirects that go to the same place:

• 2005 Britannica takeover of Misplaced Pages
• 2005 Encyclopedia Britannica takeover of Wikimedia
• April 1, 2005 Britannica takeover of Wikimedia
• Britannica takeover of Wikimedia

Invitatious 01:16, 15 June 2006 (UTC) 13:13, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. Away. Be gone. Stay out of Ze Mainspace! Jobjörn (Talk | contribs) 00:54, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete cross-namespace redirect. - Tangotango 09:56, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete all per nom. -- JLaTondre 10:53, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

2004 U.S. presidential election controversy/2004 U.S. presidential election controversy → Misplaced Pages:Votes for deletion/2004 U.S. presidential election controversy

Main space redirect to old VfD discussion. Invitatious 01:16, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. --Zoz (t) 16:24, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

1.0 → Misplaced Pages:Pushing to 1.0

Cross-namespace redirect. Linked from several software articles not having to do with Misplaced Pages. Invitatious 01:04, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Change re-direct to 1 (number). 1.0 is a way of writing the rational number 1 to one decimal place. Georgia guy 01:06, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete or redirect to 1 (number). jni 10:25, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
• Change redirect to 1 (number). --Zoz (t) 16:24, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

1933 Atlantic hurricane season buttons → Template:1933 Atlantic hurricane season buttons et al.

And the following others:

• 1968 Atlantic hurricane season/ buttons
• 1972 Atlantic hurricane season/ buttons
• 1979 Atlantic hurricane season/ buttons
• 1995 Atlantic hurricane season/Buttons
• 1996 Atlantic hurricane season/Buttons
• 1997 Atlantic hurricane season/Buttons
• 1998 Atlantic hurricane season/Buttons
• 1999 Atlantic hurricane season/Buttons
• 2000 Atlantic hurricane season/Buttons
• 2001 Atlantic hurricane season/Buttons
• 2002 Atlantic hurricane season/Buttons
• 2003 Atlantic hurricane season/Buttons
• 2004 Atlantic hurricane season/Buttons
• 2005 Atlantic hurricane season/Buttons

All have the same format target as the main one listed at the top. Useless unlinked Main space to Template space redirects. By the way, there should be a procedure for listing many similar redirects in one nomination on RfD. Invitatious 00:33, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

1924 songs → Category:1924 songs

Cross-namespace redirect Invitatious 00:09, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep - Why is it a problem to cross namespaces when it helps the user find what he or she is looking for? - Richardcavell 05:33, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

June 14

League Leader’s Shield → League Leader's Shield

Looks like result of wherever the article title was pasted from. Article was moved, leaving this behind. Unlikely search term, to say the least. Fan1967 21:17, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages manual of style → Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style

Cross-namespace redirect SCHZMO ✍ 20:23, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

• Orphan and delete per nom. --Rory096 20:23, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. --Zoz (t) 20:54, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Orphaning would be good too. -- JLaTondre 23:17, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete; Misplaced Pages needs a : --Brownlee 10:28, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. --WinHunter 04:42, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages Manual of Style → Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style

Cross-namespace redirect SCHZMO ✍ 20:23, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

• Orphan and delete per nom. --Rory096 20:24, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. --Zoz (t) 20:54, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Orphaning would be good too. -- JLaTondre 23:17, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. --WinHunter 04:42, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

What Misplaced Pages is not → Misplaced Pages:What Misplaced Pages is not

Cross-namespace redirect. SCHZMO ✍ 20:20, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

• Orphan and delete per nom. --Rory096 20:24, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. --Zoz (t) 20:54, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Orphaning would be good too. -- JLaTondre 23:17, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. --WinHunter 04:42, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

] → Misplaced Pages:Sign your posts on talk pages

Cross-namespace redirect. Delete or change redirect to Tilde. (Sorry, I'm having trouble with the links.) SCHZMO ✍ 20:05, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

• Kill with fire per nom. --Rory096 20:09, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Change redirect to Tilde. --Zoz (t) 20:54, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. -- JLaTondre 23:17, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

] → Misplaced Pages:Sign your posts on talk pages

Cross-namespace redirect. Delete or change redirect to Tilde. SCHZMO ✍ 20:05, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

• Kill with fire per nom. --Rory096 20:09, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Change redirect to Tilde. --Zoz (t) 20:54, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. -- JLaTondre 23:17, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. --WinHunter 04:42, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete despite ]. Fagstein 01:29, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

] → Misplaced Pages:Sign your posts on talk pages

Cross-namespace redirect. Delete or change redirect to Tilde. SCHZMO ✍ 20:05, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

• Kill with fire per nom. --Rory096 20:09, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Change redirect to Tilde. --Zoz (t) 20:54, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. -- JLaTondre 23:17, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. --WinHunter 04:42, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

President George W. Bush's anger and resolve → George W. Bush

Strange, wordy, and POV name for a redirect. SCHZMO ✍ 19:58, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete, POV and attack. --Rory096 20:09, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above. --Zoz (t) 20:54, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Depete per Rory096 --WinHunter 04:42, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Featured image → Misplaced Pages:Featured pictures

Cross-namespace redirect Mr. Lefty _{Talk to me!} 17:23, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. feydey 17:30, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Orphan and delete (and merge this into the other nom). --Rory096 19:58, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. --Zoz (t) 20:54, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Orphaning would be good too. -- JLaTondre 23:17, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. --WinHunter 04:42, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

3RR → Misplaced Pages:Three-revert rule

Cross-namespace redirect. WP:3RR should be used instead. Zoz (t) 16:52, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Mr. Lefty _{Talk to me!} 17:21, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Orphan and delete per above. --Rory096 19:58, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy Delete as G4 (recreation of deleted material) per previous debate (Misplaced Pages:Redirects for deletion/Redirect Archives/April 2006#3RR .E2.86.92 Misplaced Pages:Three-revert_rule). Orphaning would be good too. -- JLaTondre 23:11, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Add the following to this nomination: 3 revert rule, 3 Revert rule, and 3RV. Invitatious 01:50, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
• And these too: Three-revert rule, Three revert rule. Invitatious 21:57, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep the lot of them. '3RR' has no meaning outside wikipedia, so why shouldn't it bring up an encyclopedic article on its wikipedia meaning? - Richardcavell 05:32, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete all above cross-namespace redirects. feydey 07:05, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Village pump → Misplaced Pages:Village pump

Cross-namespace redirect. Zoz (t) 16:49, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Mr. Lefty _{Talk to me!} 17:21, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Orphan and delete per above. --Rory096 19:58, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy Delete as G4 (recreation of deleted material) per previous debate (Misplaced Pages:Redirects for deletion/Redirect Archives/March 2006#March_19). Orphaning would be good too. -- JLaTondre 23:11, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Pan-Iranist party → Pan-Iranist Party

It is better to move the article to "party" than "Party" however it is not possible unless the redirect is deleted first. Thanks K a s h 13:43, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep as it seems that Pan-Iranist Party is the correct title. --Zoz (t) 14:10, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Isolasi DNA → DNA extraction

Non English redirect. So craze tes 10:45, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

• And? Is it wrong? It was an article added in the Indonesian language that we had full coverage on. I reidirected it. We have a whole category full of similar items: Category:Redirects from alternate languages. --Kunzite 11:12, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as R from alternate language. --Zoz (t) 11:33, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Deletion policy → Misplaced Pages:deletion policy

Needless cross-namespace redirect. Rory096 03:00, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. — TKD::Talk 03:01, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Yanksox 03:57, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - I only just typed it in 2 minutes ago absent-mindedly. - Richardcavell 04:44, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. feydey 05:07, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. --Zoz (t) 10:57, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. -- JLaTondre 23:17, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Featured images → Misplaced Pages:Featured pictures

Cross-namespace redirect. Mr. Lefty _{Talk to me!} 02:07, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

• Per nom. --Cyde↔Weys 02:39, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Kill per nom, no orphaning required. See also Featured image --Rory096 02:52, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. — TKD::Talk 02:54, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. --Zoz (t) 10:57, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. -- JLaTondre 23:17, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

"road safety" → Road-traffic safety

Same reasoning as for this redirect's alternate capitalisation cousin (nominated for deletion below), "Road safety". In this case, there are no incoming links. User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 01:55, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

• Speedy delete - R3 (unlikely typo). Timrem 02:08, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

"Road safety" → Road-traffic safety

I don't think we need to retain redirects that are quotated terms such as this; its not a likely search or direct URL-use term nor would I anticipate uses in the context of articles to require retention of the quotated redirect (there is a single such use now, Seat belt legislation, which I will leave intact pending resolution of this discussion. User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 01:46, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

• Speedy delete - R3 (unlikely typo). Timrem 02:08, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

June 11

Keith Richard → Keith Richards

Currently it redirects to Rolling Stones guitarist, while there is a notable footballer with exactly this name. MaxSem 17:13, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Nomination withdrawn since it looks like that there were no Keith Richard the footballer. MaxSem 16:34, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keith Richards was known as Keith Richard in his early days. If there is another Keith Richard, then this should be turned into a disambig page. I would do that except that a quick Google search on Keith Richard or Keith Richard football didn't produce any hits that stood out to me. Can you provide more details? -- JLaTondre 17:51, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

See 1958 FIFA World Cup (squads). MaxSem 19:27, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Just to confuse matters further, FIFA suggests the footballer was actually Richard Keith (which is a redirect to somebody else again :) — sjorford++ 20:34, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

This site (have to expand next to last arrow) also shows his name as Richard Keith. It looks like 1958 FIFA World Cup (squads) should be changed to Richard Keith and Richard Keith changed to a disambig. If there is no disagreement, I'll do that. -- JLaTondre 22:48, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Absolutely. MaxSem 16:34, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

• Revise as follows ... If there is a person who is notable enough for an article who goes by the name 'Keith Richard', that article should be entitled 'Keith Richard' and a {{Distinguish}} template used to point at the Keith Richards article (I don't think a reciprocal one would be necessary). If there is not a person who is sufficiently notable for inclusion who is named 'Keith Richard', keep the redirect and tag it with {{R from alternate name}}, as long as the note that 'Richard' was 'Richards' former name is included in the article; if it turns out that this name change did not take place, then tag it with {{R from misspelling}}. In addition, perhaps a {{Distinguish}} template should be added to Keith Richards pointing at Richard Keith, but that might be unnecessary. User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 00:18, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
• Read the top of this page. "Note: If all you want to do is replace a currently existing redirect with an actual article, you do not need to list it here. Turning redirects into fleshed-out encyclopedic articles is wholly encouraged at Misplaced Pages. Be bold." --Rory096 00:52, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

I wasn't going to write an article about him, I simply noticed misleading link while filling this category with existing articles. MaxSem 09:24, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Frank bennett → Frank Bennett

Same as below. Personally I'll be more careful creating articles, but I'm not sure I understand the procedure for capitalization redirects (it seems below that this type of request for deletion is generally denied). I'd imagine that many users don't use any capitalization in searches, and thus an intermediate redirect would be sort of pointless. Inarcadiaego 16:49, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep The first letter is automatically capitalized, so if someone entered 'frank bennett' as a search term, it would give you the first article. Cowman109 17:53, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete unneeded redirect as "frank benett" will go directly to "Frank Bennett" without this, and with it simply uses a redirect. (Mixed captialasation issues in WP:REDIRECT do not apply for this as they did for the CoES (below) (This redirect was up for afd, which I closed as a speedy close) Regards, MartinRe 21:29, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
  • I've placed an RFD tag on it as it's still open here. -- JLaTondre 22:54, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as "frank benett" will not go to "Frank Bennett" when it's typed into the address bar (i.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/Frank_bennett). Not everyone uses the go button and since it's already created, there's no need to delete. Redirects are cheap. -- JLaTondre 22:54, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
  • I understand what you're saying, but do enough people search for articles by typing in the address bar that it's worth it to keep a redirect that we all seem to agree is pointless (and unnecessary according to WP:REDIRECT and MartinRe's comment)? I don't think (m)any other similar titles have redirects on here. Inarcadiaego 01:48, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
    • Some do, some don't. john smith does, for example. Having the redirect allows entry from the title bar, and lower case wiki-links, but also uses a redirct if typed from the go bar. nothing significant either way, I wouldn't create one, but I also wouldn't rfd one if I found one. But as it was rfd'd I lean towards delete, as while redirects are cheap, doing lots of unneeded cheap things can mount up. Regards, MartinRe 11:22, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and tag with {{R from other capitalisation}}. User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 00:20, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Although unlikely, this redirect is not confusing or offensive in any manner, and redirects are cheap. Grandmasterka 05:45, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Council for european studies → Council for European Studies

Simple capitalization error in creating the article. Searches for "council for european studies" should go directly to the correctly capitalized article; the original redirect doesn't need to exist. Inarcadiaego 15:51, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep - useful redirect as for mixed captialisation issues as per WP:REDIRECT. (This redirect was up for afd, which I closed as a speedy close) Regards, MartinRe 21:24, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
  • I've placed an RFD tag on it as it's still open here. -- JLaTondre 22:58, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - as I understand it, it's only when every word in the target article name has an initial cap that searching with no initial caps would take you directly to the article. For example, searching on "battle of frankenhausen" takes you to a search page, not to the article "Battle of Frankenhausen". --Mathew5000 21:31, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment: Close. it's when every word (after the first) has the same captialisation that "Go" works., it's only when captialisation is mixed that a redirect is needed. Regards, MartinRe 21:48, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as {{R from other capitalisation}}. -- JLaTondre 22:58, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
• After reading the capitalization policy for redirects I agree with your comments and took off the RFD - thanks. Inarcadiaego 01:40, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Shelving filter → Band-stop filter

Shelving filters or Shelf filters are not band-stop filters. someone should create a good Shelving filter article (and someone started to, but it wasn't very good) but, until they do, it's misinformation to equate to BSF. no information is better than wrong information. r b-j 02:27, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Why not change target to Electronic filter in the mean time? --KJ 04:43, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Or Equalization filter. --KJ 04:45, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

And tag with {{R with possibilities}}. --Rory096 20:48, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Ckatz/Workspace/Templates → User:Ckatz/Workspace/Templates

Created by mistake in the main space; thanks to Dancter for catching this. Ckatz 05:18, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

• Speedy delete R2. --Rory096 05:27, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Copper High School → Robbinsdale Cooper High School

RFD1 tag applied by Schulte on 08-June, but not listed here. Rationale of typo -- incorrect name provided in edit summary.

• Delete. While we normally keep misspelling redirects, Copper is a word itself and it possible there is a Copper High School which means this redirect would actually create confusion. -- JLaTondre 13:42, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. My apologies for not listing it here. When Gephart was creating the redirect, he simply made a typo with the name. --Schulte 18:28, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Rabah Zobeir → Zobeir

RFD1 tag applied by Ori Redler on 04-June, but not listed here as RFD2 tag was mistakenly added to article. Rationale of It's not the right person. Rabah Zobeir should direct to "RABAH ZOBEIR" which was actually a slave of Zobeir Pasha.

• Delete. Google search returns copies of 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica (ex. ) that verify the two are not the same. -- JLaTondre 13:42, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per JLaTondre. Cowman109 22:09, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

June 10

RAID Admin → RAID

was tagged for speedy as "implausible typo. RAID Admin is Mac OS X software and is different from RAID". I don't know if it should rather be re-redirected elsewhere, so I bring this here. Kusma (討論) 20:19, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

• Change target to Xserve RAID which mentions the software (as it is for managing that device). -- JLaTondre 21:23, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
• 'Change target per JLaTondre. -- Usgnus 18:16, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Continouos → Zero and First Order Holds

misspelling that is non sequitur of redirect topic. target article should go, too. r b-j 05:50, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

boy, i sure thought i filled out the template correctly, but it reversed the articles. i fixed it here. r b-j 14:43, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

• Change target to Continuity which is where Continuous point. As a misspelling of continuous, it should match that one. -- JLaTondre 15:17, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

should every misspelling of every word have a WP article or redirect? perhaps the common misspellings of noteworthy topic names, but not every misspelling. r b-j 18:29, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

• If one person made the mistake, another will probably make it also. We shouldn't purposely create redirects based upon spelling mistakes, but once made, there is no need to delete them. We actually have a template ({{R from misspelling}}) and category for them (Category:Redirects from misspellings). -- JLaTondre 19:15, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

do to it want you want. i think it should disappear. it dumbs down WP. r b-j 02:27, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

• I've changed the target. (I vote Keep-directed to Continuity if it matters.) Eluchil404 21:59, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

June 9

Acucullophallia → Circumcision

Made-up term does not exist in any dictionary, save dubious 'web dictionaries' Jakew 13:39, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

• After looking at websites I never want to see again, it's a slang term meaning sexual arousal by circumcison. :\ It probably should be deleted'. And if notable, gain a page. Yanksox 05:05, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above - not a sensible redirect. PJM 05:11, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above. Lose the extra weight, it's not needed... Shenme 19:31, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per User:Dabljuh/teusp and discussion at Talk:Circumcision. — Scm83x 20:08, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. The word appears in at least one well-known printed book (cited at circumcision, unless Jakew has recently culled it). Also, note that above there seems to have been some confusion between acucullophallia (the redirect page) and acucullophilia, a different word which means "sexual arousal by circumcision." Acucullophallia means "the state of being circumcised", so the redirect is quite sensible. Further, the redirect seems to be needed, as it was created as a requested article. _Wizard @ 07:07, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
• Strong keep Both web and print citations show that the word exists and is a synonym for "circumcised". The hostility towards this term stems from confusion with "acucullophilia", which refers to a fetish for circumcised men. This confusion has been cleared up on the circumcision page, which now briefly mentions both terms in the lead. Of course, this mention is further reason to keep the redirect. Al 14:18, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment Actually, the 'hostility' stems from no such thing - there's no indication that there is or was any confusion between the two. The objection to the term is as stated - that no definition can be found in any credible dictionary (the term is mentioned in passing in one book, but is not defined). So we are left with the situation that we have no reliable source telling us what it means - hence it should not be included. Jakew 15:54, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
    • Unfortunately, this is simply false. We know exactly what it means and there is no doubt whatsoever on this issue. Worse, you know it's false, so this appears to be intentional deception. Al 16:26, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
      • If there is no doubt as to what it means, then why are you unable to cite a WP:RS giving a definition? Why do you insist instead upon citing a 'source' to support the claimed definition that does not even define the term? Jakew 16:32, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
    • I listed three on the talk page. Your response, of course, is to deny that they're WP:RS and then to ignore the etymology on top of that. This is not an honest response. Al 18:48, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
      • I agree - I did indeed state that they were not reliable sources. Furthermore, the theory of the etymology is original research (partly my own), and cannot therefore be included. Finally, please review WP:CIVIL and WP:FAITH. Accusing me of dishonesty is unacceptable behaviour, whether you agree with my views or not. Jakew 18:58, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
    • Whatever. There is clearly no consensus for deletion, so I'm not going to debate this further. Al 23:10, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

June 8

Software Devlopment Process → Software Development Process

worthless typo MaxEnt 04:50, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. No chance of being confused with anything else, does not meet any criteria for deletion. Tag with {{R from misspelling}}. Johnleemk | Talk 11:08, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Typos are are one of the main purposes of redirects. Ydam 11:20, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Johnleemk and Ydam. — TKD::Talk 00:01, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, per above. PJM 05:15, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per above. --Arnzy 13:17, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Talk:X-Men:_The_Last_Stand/Archive2 → Talk:X-Men:_The_Last_Stand/Archive 2

unneeded redirect --Facto 02:42, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per my comments below (isn't it usually above? Ah well). Cowman109 22:23, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Talk:X-Men:_The_Last_Stand/Archive1 → Talk:X-Men:_The_Last_Stand/Archive 1

unneeded redirect --Facto 02:42, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep: For both of these I have to say that the page titles look similar enough to me that entering the redirect into the search engine could be a forseeable problem. Deathawk 23:56, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

they are useless redirects to talk page archives. The original archives were improperly named Archive1 and Archive2 (without the spaces) so I had to move them to Archive 1 and Archive 2. --Facto 00:02, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete This would not be a search term. It would likely only be accessible by links. Therefore, an unneeded redirect. Cowman109 22:22, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Kepone toxin → Kepone

Kepone is poison, but is not a toxin (see the toxin article why, kepone is synthetic. Unlikely search target. No links. No useful history (only pagemove redirect, fix and rfd. Polonium 23:40, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep there are a handful of "Kepone toxin" finds on Google...not hurting anything, plausible —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Adambiswanger1 (talk • contribs) .
• Keep. If someone made this mistake before, someone will make it again. This redirect prevents the creation of redundant and inaccurate articles. Johnleemk | Talk 11:20, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

No. Kepone is not a toxin. This redirect is activly harmful, because it claims that kepone is a toxin. The redirect should be deleted and the page protected to prevent recreation. Polonium 23:20, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Well, the toxin article says people use the word to describe all poisons, whether they be organic or synthetic. If some people think that should be discouraged, I think the redirect (which deletes an occurrence of "toxin") actually helps in this case. --KJ 02:06, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

So we should delete Dubya to discourage references to Bush as Dubya? Terminological errors like these are the reason we have redirects. Saying this title endorses the categorisation of Kepone as a toxin is like saying the existence of Dubya endorses calling Bush by that nickname or that the existence of misspelling redirects endorse the misspelling of certain names. Johnleemk | Talk 10:32, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep - I've studied both medicine and law and there is no difference between 'poison' and 'toxin' in practise in either profession. - Richardcavell 04:46, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

June 7

Mixed expressway → RIRO expressway

This term is not in common use, and there is no obvious target for it. --SPUI (T - C) 16:32, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep, as it is not threatening any other articles, and it may be a localized expression outside of our knowledge Adambiswanger1 03:36, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
  • I can tell you that it's not such a "localized expression". If this "vote" is somehow interpreted as keep and this is kept, redirect it to expressway. --SPUI (T - C) 20:58, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Textpert & Textperts → 82ASK

Neologism, seems to be used solely for advertising by Re5ult, aka 82ASK. ArglebargleIV 04:58, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. Also note that 82ASK redirects to Re5ult. Lbbzman 21:54, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Extreme Video → Extreme Video

Redirects to itself (loop) WillMak050389 11:53, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

• Change target to Rob Zicari. Per Extreme Video history, AxelBoldt did a merge, but looks like he put in the wrong target for the redirect. Per his user contributions page, the edit summaries show AxelBoldt merged to Rob Zicari so it should redirect there. -- JLaTondre 13:12, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Kady Goldlist → ONE Family Fund

A bit of a mess. The creation of the redirect was a result of an AFD, but in hindsight there seems no benefit (indeed, no rhyme or reason) to the redirect since Ms Goldlist is not mentioned in the article (and seems not notable enough to be added). The redirect has already been blanked once by another contributor (I found it as an empty page). Arguably the AFD's "merge" consensus has been satisfied, because one of the external links on the ONE Family Fund article has a reference to Kady Goldlist as a donor. RobertG ♬ talk 15:41, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

• Ehhh...Keep...weakly, if people are searching for "Kady Goldlist," they're probably looking for OFF, so I'm weakily saying keep. Yanksox 05:17, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Delete, her name brings up a whopping 35 google hits. I can't imagine that any significant number of people would be searchign for her- pm_shef 22:27, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Paul Kitchen → Rothesay Netherwood School

Was previously up for deletion as non-notable. It was changed to a redirect instead of deletion. Paul Kitchen is the current head of the school. Up until today, there was link from the school article to the Paul Kitchen article (which of course redirected back to the school article). Usgnus 19:58, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep and just don't link to it. Anyone who searches for Paul Kitchen might benefit from the school's article, so it's good. It also helps prevent recreation of that article. --Rory096 20:02, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

• Misplaced Pages deletion