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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Anthony (talk | contribs) at 09:56, 20 April 2004 (=April 20=). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

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

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

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

List articles to be deleted in this format:

When should we delete a redirect?

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

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

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

However, avoid deleting such redirects if:

  1. They have a potentially useful page history. If the redirect was created by renaming a page with that name, and the page history just mentions the renaming, and for one of the reasons above you want to delete the page, copy the page history to the Talk page of the article it redirects to. The act of renaming is useful page history, and even more so if there has been discussion on the page name.
  2. They would aid accidental linking and make the creation of duplicate articles less likely
  3. They aid searches on certain terms.
  4. Someone finds them useful. Hint: If someone says they find a redirect useful, they probably do. You might not find it useful - this is not because the other person is a liar, but because you browse Wikipedia in different ways.

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

Redirects to be deleted

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


March 12

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

March 25

April 1

April 2

Was appropriate while it was still listed on VfD, but now that it is being kept the redirect is no longer required. — mendel ☎ 03:48, Apr 2, 2004 (UTC)
Keep. anthony (this comment is a work in progress and may change without prior notice) 04:55, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Politics in Music -> Politics in music. I created the original page, forgetting to capitalise it correctly. TUF-KAT kindly moved it to its new home, and I've sinced corrected links to the original, which is therefore now an orphan. Obviously no reason for it to exist any more. --Lancevortex 10:49, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Keep. anthony (this comment is a work in progress and may change without prior notice) 04:58, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Keep. Good redirect. RickK | Talk 06:14, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)
I added {{msg:R_for_alternate_capitalisation}} to the redirect. -- User:Docu
Fixed. anthony (this comment is a work in progress and may change without prior notice) 04:56, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Wikipedia:Offensive User Names Havers Club
    • A redirect created by a disgruntled user. Kingturtle 17:21, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • Keep. Aids searches. JRR Trollkien 11:36, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • Delete. Created in bad faith. Serves no legitimate use. Maximus Rex 22:03, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • Delete with extreme prejudice. Who is going to start a search with that subject who would not already know where they were going? --Phil | Talk 14:14, Apr 13, 2004 (UTC)

April 4

April 5

  • Sonja Elen Kisa -> User:Sonjaaa. Sonjaaa created the article space article about herself, which I redirected to her user page. We now should delete the article. RickK | Talk 01:25, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • Delete. (I was wondering what that article was doing on Wikipedia before, anyway. Is she notable enough to be encyclopedia, simply for having created Toki Pona?) --pne 09:01, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)

April 7

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April 10

April 12

--Tagishsimon 18:02, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)

April 13

April 14

April 15

  • Stroller -> Cart - Cart is a far more general article and strollers certainly deserve their own entry. - SimonP 03:45, Apr 15, 2004 (UTC)

April 16

April 18

  • Myocardial infarction => Heart attack - As per the discussion on talk:Heart attack, "Heart attack" should be moved to "Myocardial infarction". (With the new Heart attack page be just a redirect to Myocardial infarction. For this to happen, the redirect page at "Myocardial infarction" should be deleted (I think). If a capable administrator/sysop were to take care of the move after deletion, I would be much obliged. Ksheka 13:19, Apr 18, 2004 (UTC)
    • Delete. Make way for proper medical terminology on Wikipedia. JFW | T@lk 13:45, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • History consists solely of redirects. But shouldn't we be using the most popular term? No vote. anthony (see warning) 16:33, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
      • Although "heart attack" is the more common term, "myocardial infarction" is the correct term. Delete. -Sean 18:59, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • Do not delete. Standing policy is to have articles at their most commonly used name. - SimonP 17:04, Apr 18, 2004 (UTC)
  • NEMESKETCH and NEMETSCHEK -->> Nemetschek, created by multiple page moves from a misspelled initial title. I can't imagine them being useful, especially both in all-caps like that (not even the company website uses all-caps, if you're wondering; I know some do...) - IMSoP 14:43, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • Keep. There is no valid reason to delete them, therefore we should keep them. anthony (see warning)
      • Erm, would you mind giving a reason, because I honestly can't think of one. - IMSoP 17:20, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • If the misspellings were in lowercase, I could see a reason for keeping them, but not for uppercase misspellings. Delete. -Sean 18:59, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

April 19

April 20

I originally composed the article at Wikiholiday and meant to move it to the Wikipedia namespace, but mistyped the target. I have fixed the intended redirect, but this one is left over. Sorry. --Phil | Talk 08:51, Apr 20, 2004 (UTC)
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