Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2008 April 26

April 26

This is a list of redirects that have been proposed for deletion or other action on April 26, 2008

Magog

The result of the debate was Not applicable. Move requests are handled by WP:RM. -- JLaTondre (talk) 13:24, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Aside from Magog (Bible) (the most common usage as the Biblical / Irish folklore character, Magog son of Japheth), there is also Magog, Quebec, Magog (comics), and Magog (Andromeda). For this reason, I feel the most appropriate redirect for someone typing in "Magog" in the search box would be Magog (disambiguation), but failing that, Magog (Bible) would make the most sense as it is the most common. However it seems some editors who frequent the unstable, POV mess known as Gog and Magog insist (to the point of 3RR) that Magog redirect to Gog and Magog. I consider this a POV pushing diversion, since someone looking up simply 'Magog' is almost certainly NOT trying to find Gog and Magog, but one of the above-mentioned other articles. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 21:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No, this is the place for discussion of the possible deletion of the redirect article. Discussion of an alternative to deletion when one is advocating not keeping the redirect but not deleting is most appropriate. The WP:RM requested moves posting is an outgrowth of this discussion. B.Wind (talk) 03:31, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Do what B.Wind says. The two Biblical topics take precedence over everything else; unfortunately, there's no useful way to choose between the two of them for a target. Placing the dabpage here is the right choice. I also echo B.Wind's thoughts on the topic of "Gog". — Gavia immer (talk) 17:20, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. The primary topic for an ambiguous word is not POV, even if the primary topic happens to be Biblical, reality-TV-based, an Obama supporter, or Icelandic. Talk took place appropriately on Talk:Magog last year. Some Google hit counts:
  • "gog +and magog": 146K, 7 News, 1516 Books, 2320 Scholar
  • magog -gog: 2.1M, 43 News, 1588 Books, 1870 Scholar
Depending on which flavor of Google search you give weight to, the primary topic could be Gog and Magog, with no POV-pushing (an inappropriate accusation for ambiguous redirect targeting). -- JHunterJ (talk) 11:16, 28 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The Google hit count, "depending on which flavor", supposedly "proving" that "Gog and Magog" supposedly has "more hits" than just "Magog", is utterly irrelevant for our purposes. You had to slice it a whole lot of different ways to get a result that favored you, then proclaim that the "primary article". Sorry, but what is of more relevance for our purpose is "what links here" to Magog. Almost everything linking to the redirect proves in SPADES that people who type simply "Magog" are thinking of one of the "Magogs", and NOT "Gog and Magog" - which happens to be an article that is usually crucial to someone's attempts to "prove" that everyone on the other side of the world (pick which side) is evil and should be immediately killed, but has always been badly written with little real information. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 11:21, 28 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Do not move. The two Biblical topics are clearly the primary uses, but Magog (Bible) just reiterates some of the information already found at Gog and Magog. Magog should redirect to the main article, as it did before Til moved it without discussion via a revert war. The disambig page should be accessible from there. Til, I really don't appreciate your accusations, they do nothing to help your case.--Cúchullain t/c 18:14, 28 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Once again, "Gog and Magog" is certainly NOT the "main article" for "Magog". That is your POV, and I have accused you of nothing except pushing that POV, which I think is a fair assessment given your response. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 18:26, 28 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
You should read what WP:NPOV and WP:3RR actually say before accusing others of breaking them. Disagreeing with you on what the primary topic is does not constitute a breach of the neutral point of view policy.--Cúchullain t/c 18:33, 28 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
But, that is your point-of-view that a New Testament topic is the >main article" for an Old Testament character, and yes you are pushing it. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 18:43, 28 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
All of this is irrelevant to this discussion. This is the forum for determining if the redirect Magog should be deleted. My proposal was to move the identically-named dab page to this page per WP:D and MOS:DAB. The haggling over Gog and Magog is irrelevant here as it does not address the primary purpose of the listing in WP:RfD (read top part of the page). B.Wind (talk) 01:31, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • All who are squabbling over this should realize that this is supposed to be a Discussion as to whether or not the Magog redirect page should be deleted. The proposed move is preferable to deletion (whether you like it or not, Magog is a single word that has multiple non-Biblical meanings, thus indicating a need for the dab page here instead of deleting it), and if the should be deleted, guess what would happen to the newly-created space? As for the purpose of the dab page, please read WP:D#Disambiguation pages if you are disagreeing on the content of the dab page... and please take that argument elsewhere else. 147.70.242.40 (talk) 19:44, 28 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, I was never listing this redirect for "deletion", only for "discussion". Sorry if that was not clear. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 20:20, 28 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
While it is officially "Articles for Discussion", this is actually the place to go to propose deletion of redirects (and under its rules, the default for the discussion unless otherwise demonstrated or corrected) is deletion of the contested redirect. Here, usually the options are delete, keep, retarget, or move (a viable fourth option is to write a totally new article, which I do not recommend here). Squabbles involving content of articles have no place here - they're better done on the article's talk page.B.Wind (talk) 01:31, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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What the Wikipedia is not → Wikipedia

The result of the debate was Deleted. -- JLaTondre (talk) 13:25, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Changed from a CNR to redirect to current target. In this form an extremely unlikely search term for the target. No links. RichardΩ612 Ɣ |ɸ 18:26, April 26, 2008 (UTC)

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WikipediA → Wikipedia

The result of the debate was Kept. -- JLaTondre (talk) 13:27, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It is styled 'WikipediA' in the logo, but it is still an unlikely search term. RichardΩ612 Ɣ |ɸ 18:21, April 26, 2008 (UTC)

  • Weak keep. It's possible, even if a little unlikely, for some of the millions of people who visit Wikipedia to search for the article on Wikipedia, and they did not want to look through the whole site to look for alternate spellings, and search for "WikipediA" as in the logo, and if it's a red link, then they might decide there is no article on Wikipedia, and they might be too lazy to look at the boxes on the left and the bars on the top that say "Wikipedia". ~AH1(TCU) 18:36, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak keep - btw, I think this is a legacy of Wikipedia's earliest days, when titles had to have a capital letter somewhere AFTER the first letter in order to get them to link - as opposed to today's method of using [[ ]] !! Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 22:15, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • Keep. An unlikely search term, but still a very plausible one. FYI, the old link method was camelcase, meaning lowercase first, then uppercase, then lowercase (uUu or georgeWashington). --Cryptic C62 · Talk 13:39, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Redirects are cheap, different forms of capitalisation are usually kept because people might nudge the caps lock accidentaly.--Phoenix-wiki 14:17, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep - No reason not to keep, typos happen. Mastrchf (t/c) 16:18, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Not going to be used much, but it doesn't do any harm and it can be kept. The DominatorTalkEdits 17:17, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. A reader who's not very familiar with English might read the logo as an intentional capitalization. Useful, inexpensive. -Pete (talk) 18:45, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Wiki\ → Wiki

The result of the debate was Re-targeted to Main Page. -- JLaTondre (talk) 13:31, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Very unlikely search terms. Used to be targeted to the Main Page, changed Feb 08. No links. RichardΩ612 Ɣ |ɸ 18:13, April 26, 2008 (UTC)

Change. Hi. I'm the one who created the original redirect, the one that pointed to the Main Page. I did this because numerous times I would type in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki\. It's an error, because my finger would hit the slash instead of the enter key. Considering the number of times I made that mistake, I thought that there could be the possibility that it could also happen to others. So that's why I set up the redirect. Sending it to Wiki makes no sense in my mind because it was created to redirect to Main Page. So I say change it back to what it was. --Son (talk) 00:40, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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British Rail Class 37 37025 → British Rail Class 37

The result of the debate was Kept. -- JLaTondre (talk) 13:32, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wasn't notable, doesn't need to be redirected as unlikely search term BG7 14:39, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Tanglefoot bags → Dungeons & Dragons

The result of the debate was One kept and three deleted. Tanglefoot bags kept as possible search term. If someone wants to re-target it to a more specific article, that's fine. The two "∧" entries deleted as unlikely search terms. 4e deleted as too generic. -- JLaTondre (talk) 13:36, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

None of the abbreviations seem likely search terms, and none of the terms are mentioned in the target article. No links. RichardΩ612 Ɣ |ɸ 14:04, April 26, 2008 (UTC)

  • Keep but change target. I redirected Tanglefoot bags originally. Looking at my edit history it appears that there may have been a number of items on a Tanglefoot page which I redirected to their appropriate topics (Tanglefoot Rats, Tanglefoot whiskey, Get into the tanglefoot‎, etc) The history of the page appears to have been lost. The content of Tanglefoot bags was "Tanglefoot bags were used in Dungeons and Dragons. They were a substance that caused others to get stuck or at least move slowly.". A Google search shows that Tanglefoot bags are a D&D spell, and that with 45,000 Ghits, it is likely that someone WILL do a search for them on Wiki. I suggest the redirect is pointed to Spells of Dungeons & Dragons. I suspect that if deleted, somebody will start one. Redirects tend to prevent that happening. SilkTork *YES! 21:23, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete all. Sorry, but I don't see that there's anywhere relevant to redirect 'tanglefoot bags' too, and the others are just not useful. Terraxos (talk) 22:25, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep all. Difficult to assess likelihood of searching without specialized knowledge; assuming good faith on part of creators, there may be a reason. (Not so sure on 4e, which definitely could mean a lot of things.) -Pete (talk) 18:48, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak keep 4e and do something sensible with it. I actually just used it as a search term, curious to see whether and how WP was covering the development and hype of the 4th edition of D&D. Since it might refer to multiple things, a disambig page might be appropriate. (A quick google search turns up topics in: leadership, various company names, and uses as an abbreviation for "4th Edition" in the context of a number of books.) On the other hand, the stupidly-common term "3e" used to refer to D&D 3rd Edition isn't and has never been created as an article or redirect, which is why it's a "weak" keep. — Saxifrage ✎ 19:27, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete all, especially the last one as "4e" is a generic abbreviation for Fourth Edition and should not point to an article for any specific product. B.Wind (talk) 02:01, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep all but 4e. Per Pete, & as for 4e, a little too generic to lay claim. --mordicai. (talk) 18:32, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Asgard Childers → Asgard (yacht)

The result of the debate was Kept. -- JLaTondre (talk) 13:37, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unlikely search term, created by a page move, but the only inbound link comes from the talk page of the orginal creator when they were notified of the page move. JulesN Talk 08:41, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment - possibly links existed before but were edited to bypass the redirect. The redirect itself is unlikely, but as redirects are cheap, no harm in keeping. Also, links exist in edit summaries, as here. Note the name of the account. I suspect they were trying to move it to something like Asgard (Childers). Also, type "Asgard Childers" in the search box. Previously, that took you to the article. Once the redirect is deleted, I think the same search will take you to a results screen with the article at the top of the results, as seen here. Not sure how widely accepted this method is, of using redirects for common searches. Carcharoth (talk) 09:39, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment The name should be a redirect only if the Asgard was once named Asgard Childers as per WP:NC-S. Mjroots (talk) 12:09, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak keep. The article Asgard (yacht) was created by me (one of my first-ever articles), and has recently been expanded by ChildersFamily (talk · contribs), who moved it to Asgard Childers and also changed incoming links to point to the new name. I moved it back again, and explained my reasons at User talk:ChildersFamily#Asgard.
    As noted above, links exist in edit summaries and in previous versions of other articles, and the "Asgard Childers" is also a likely search term, because this historic yacht (probably the most famous ship or boat in Irish history) is so closely associated with the Childers family. I see no reason whatsoever that the name "Asgard Childers" would ever be needed for any other purpose, so the redirect does no harm. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:02, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong keep Brown Haired Girl is too modest. No likelihood of a competing article, no way of knowing what external sites or offline documents might have linked to the article before it was moved. -Pete (talk) 18:50, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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User:Dissolutus → Wikipedia

The result of the debate was Converted to softredirect. Redirecting user pages to articles is disruptive as it interferes with communication. New users are confused by redirects and even experienced users will sometimes miss that it redirected and leave comments meant for the user on the target's talk page. Age of account not relevant as username still contained in histories of articles. -- JLaTondre (talk) 13:41, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Possible nonsense, and a user page can't redir to an article. David Pro (talk) 21:26, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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