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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 to 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

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Please be aware of these general policies, which apply here as elsewhere:

The guiding principles of RfD

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  • The purpose of a good redirect is to eliminate the possibility that readers will find themselves staring blankly at "Search results 1–10 out of 378" instead of the article they were looking for. If someone could plausibly enter the redirect's name when searching for the target article, it's a good redirect.
  • Redirects are cheap. They take up little storage space and use very little bandwidth. It doesn't really hurt things if there are a few of them scattered around. On the flip side, deleting redirects is also cheap because recording the deletion takes up little storage space and uses very little bandwidth. There is no harm in deleting problematic redirects.
  • If a good-faith RfD nomination proposes to delete a redirect and has no discussion after at least 7 days, the default result is delete.
  • Redirects nominated in contravention of Wikipedia:Redirect will be speedily kept.
  • RfD can also serve as a central discussion forum for debates about which page a redirect should target. In cases where retargeting the redirect could be considered controversial, it is advisable to leave a notice on the talk page of the redirect's current target page or the proposed target page to refer readers to the redirect's nomination to allow input and help form consensus for the redirect's target.
  • Requests for deletion of redirects from one page's talk page to another's do not need to be listed here. Anyone can remove the redirect by blanking the page. The G6 criterion for speedy deletion may be appropriate.
  • In discussions, always ask yourself whether or not a redirect would be helpful to the reader.

When to delete a redirect

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The major reasons why deletion of redirects is harmful are:

  • a redirect may contain non-trivial edit history;
  • if a redirect is reasonably old (or is the result of moving a page that has been there for quite some time), then it is possible that its deletion will break incoming links (such links coming from older revisions of Wikipedia pages, from edit summaries, from other Wikimedia projects or from elsewhere on the internet, do not show up in "What links here").

Therefore consider the deletion only of either harmful redirects or of recent ones.

Reasons for deleting

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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. For example, if the user searches for "New Articles", and is redirected to a disambiguation page for "Articles" (itself a redirect to "Article"), it would take much longer to get to the newly added articles on Wikipedia.
  2. The redirect might cause confusion. For example, if "Adam B. Smith" was redirected to "Andrew B. Smith", because Andrew was accidentally called Adam in one source, this could cause confusion with the article on Adam Smith, so the redirect should be deleted.
  3. The redirect is offensive or abusive, such as redirecting "Joe Bloggs is a Loser" to "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 "Banana". (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 Wikipedia 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:, Wikipedia:, Help:, or Portal:.)
  7. If the redirect is broken, meaning it redirects to an article that does not exist, it can be immediately deleted under speedy deletion criterion G8. You should check that there is not an alternative place it could be appropriately redirected to first and that it has not become broken through vandalism.
  8. If the redirect is a 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. If the redirect could plausibly be expanded into an article, and the target article contains virtually no information on the subject.
  11. If the redirect ends in "(disambiguation)" but does not target a disambiguation page or a page performing a disambiguation-like function (such as a set index of articles). Speedy deletion criterion G14 may apply.

Reasons for not deleting

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However, avoid deleting such redirects if:

  1. They have a potentially useful page history, or an edit history that should be kept to comply with the licensing requirements for a merge (see Wikipedia:Merge and delete). On the other hand, if the redirect was created by renaming a page with that name, and the page history just mentions the renaming, and for one of the reasons above you want to delete the page, copy the page history to the Talk page of the article it redirects to. The act of renaming is useful page history, and even more so if there has been discussion on the page name.
  2. They would aid 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. Please tag these with {{R from old history}}. See also Wikipedia:Link rot § Link rot on non-Wikimedia sites.
  5. Someone finds them useful. Hint: If someone says they find a redirect useful, they probably do. You might not find it useful—this is not because the other person is being untruthful, but because you browse Wikipedia in different ways. Evidence of usage can be gauged by using the wikishark or pageviews tool on the redirect to see the number of views it gets.
  6. The redirect is to a closely related word form, such as a plural form to a singular form.

Neutrality of redirects

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Just as article titles using non-neutral language 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. ClimategateClimatic Research Unit email controversy).
  2. Articles created as POV forks may be deleted and replaced by a redirect pointing towards the article from which the fork originated (e.g. Barack Obama Muslim rumor → deleted and now redirected to Barack Obama religion conspiracy theories).
  3. The subject matter of articles may be represented by some sources outside Wikipedia in non-neutral terms. Such terms are generally avoided in Wikipedia article titles, per the 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 2006 dismissal of U.S. attorneys. 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

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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

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STEP I.
Tag the redirect(s).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

may be placed on the creator/main contributors' user talk page to provide notice of the discussion. Please replace RedirectName with the name of the respective creator/main contributors' redirect and use an edit summary such as:
Notice of redirect discussion at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion]]

Notices about the RfD discussion may also be left on relevant talk pages.

  • Please consider using What links here to locate other redirects that may be related to the one you are nominating. After going to the redirect target page and selecting "What links here" in the toolbox on the left side of your computer screen, select both "Hide transclusions" and "Hide links" filters to display the redirects to the redirect target page.

Current list

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Gate of Heaven (religious group)

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To my understanding they were never called this. PARAKANYAA (talk) 01:30, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Gate cult

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I have never seen it referred to as just "gate". If I am wrong, feel free to argue otherwise. PARAKANYAA (talk) 01:28, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Heaven's Get

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Implausible typo, as evidenced by the fact that from a search on newspapers, books, scholarly papers, I found no hits. Also, if this was plausible, it should target the dab not this one. The rationale when making this was that "Im almost sure it was spelled this way at some point" (they were wrong). PARAKANYAA (talk) 01:26, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

2025 Wests Tigers season

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This is literally stopping the creation of legit article of their 2025 season. This seems to be causing a problem for articles on several teams this season. Delete per WP:RETURNTORED to encourage article creation. Servite et contribuere (talk) 01:05, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

2025 St. George Illawarra Dragons season

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This is literally stopping the creation of legit article of their 2025 season. This seems to be causing a problem for articles on several teams this season. Delete per WP:RETURNTORED to encourage article creation. Servite et contribuere (talk) 01:04, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

2025 South Sydney Rabbitohs season

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This is literally stopping the creation of legit article of their 2025 season. This seems to be causing a problem for articles on several teams this season. Delete per WP:RETURNTORED to encourage article creation. Servite et contribuere (talk) 01:04, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

2025 Gold Coast Titans season

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This is literally stopping the creation of legit article of their 2025 season. This seems to be causing a problem for articles on several teams this season. Delete per WP:RETURNTORED to encourage article creation. Servite et contribuere (talk) 01:03, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

2025 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks season

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This is literally stopping the creation of legit article of their 2025 season. This seems to be causing a problem for articles on several teams this season. Delete per WP:RETURNTORED to encourage article creation. Servite et contribuere (talk) 01:03, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

2025 Canberra Raiders season

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This is literally stopping the creation of legit article of their 2025 season. This seems to be causing a problem for articles on several teams this season. Delete per WP:RETURNTORED to encourage article creation. Servite et contribuere (talk) 01:02, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

2025 Brisbane Broncos season

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This is literally stopping the creation of legit article of their 2025 season. This seems to be causing a problem for articles on several teams this season. Delete per WP:RETURNTORED to encourage article creation. Servite et contribuere (talk) 01:01, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

2025 Sydney Roosters season

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This is literally stopping the creation of legit article of their 2025 season. This seems to be causing a problem for articles on several teams this season. Delete per WP:RETURNTORED to encourage article creation. Servite et contribuere (talk) 01:01, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Servite et contribuere How is it "literally stopping" the creation of an article? There is no technical or policy restriction on replacing redirects with articles; indeed, it's practically encouraged in certain circumstances. Cremastra (talk · contribs) 02:38, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Organismal biology

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No longer mentioned at target. Added here in 2005 and removed here in 2021. The subject is mentioned at History of biology. Cremastra (talk · contribs) 00:38, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Berkane Municipal Stadium

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No information about the stadium in the target article. Would be better as a red link per WP:RETURNTORED. Wburrow (talk) 23:38, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Arbaclofen

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I'm a bit confused on why it redirects to Arbaclofen placarbil, a prodrug to (R)-baclofen (Pubchem CID 44602), as I believe that chemically, Arbaclofen would refer to (R)-baclofen, and not a prodrug. As arketamine (CID 644025) refers to (R)-Ketamine, for example. In my opinion, maybe there should be a section on the baclofen page about (R)-baclofen, if there is significant differences at the medical level from the racemic mixture. Themonkey942 (talk) 15:01, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Left guide (talk) 22:41, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

1st pyramid

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originally created as what i'll just assume was homework, the target doesn't seem to do much to actually provide a solid answer for what's the oldest pyramid overall, but everything seems to point to that being the pyramid of djoser. whether or not that would be a good target is beyond me, though, as that article makes no effort to directly claim it's the oldest pyramid in the world, being content with just stating that it's the oldest pyramid in egypt consarn (grave) (obituary) 18:52, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

i'll also note that if not deleted, first pyramid should be created to follow it. maybe oldest pyramid too if you're feeling feisty consarn (grave) (obituary) 18:53, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Left guide (talk) 22:41, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Complete

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Very similar to {{completed}}. I think this should redirect to {{completed}} rather than {{complete list}}. JacobTheRox(talk | contributions) 20:56, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

pokémon character redirects with circumflexes

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seemingly created in mistake, as romanizations tend to use the macron instead. while apparently somewhat plausible in some contexts sometimes if you're lucky, said contexts are seemingly too rare to come into play here, and it's seemingly less plausible than any other form of typ9o consarn (grave) (obituary) 20:19, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In the 2000s it was common for the circumflex to substitute in place of a macron. I think it had to do with keyboards and/or encoding. It's still seen in IMDB. WhisperToMe (talk) 22:10, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

John Dorsey (voice actor)

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unmentioned in team rocket. also apparently not real. not even bulbapedia mentions someone with this name~ consarn (grave) (obituary) 20:10, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Google.com

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This redirect should be a dab page or redirect to Google. It usually refers to the company behind the search engine. Interstellarity (talk) 18:45, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Beverly Clark

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This was mentioned here in the past but isn't any more. This is Koresh's aunt, who killed his mother some years after the siege. Probably worth mentioning, but not mentioned at the moment. PARAKANYAA (talk) 16:38, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Miscellaneous Pokémon character redirects

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Leftover redirects focusing on either Gen 5 Pokémon characters or random anime characters, as well as a few names I couldn't pin down from a Google search and one Gen 2 redirect I missed. Unmentioned on-wiki and at the target, and overall minor characters. Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 16:30, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Minor Gen 3 and 4 Pokémon characters

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Following on from yesterday's RfD, more characters who are currently unmentioned at the target article and on-wiki, and are overall minor in the grand scope of things. Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 16:26, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

EHarmony Video Bio

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I came across this from List of viral videos, but it's not mentioned at its target. Casablanca 🪨(T) 14:16, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Fresh Food People

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Woolworths (supermarket) also uses this slogan. Should we redirect to a defunct supermarket chain that predominantly shows this slogan, or to a very-much-still-alive supermarket chain that uses it as a subtitle of sorts? User:Someone-123-321 (I contribute, Talk page so SineBot will shut up) 12:49, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Left guide (talk) 13:55, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Spiritual book club

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Not mentioned at target. REAL_MOUSE_IRL talk 09:44, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Left guide (talk) 13:54, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Romulus Augustus (comics)

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In Vitrio (talk · contribs) took this redirect to AfD, but there is no current non-redirect history for this page (it was the original title for the itself-since-redirected Tyrannus (comics), which is probably why this redirect points to the "T" list, but the current all-redirect history here started with a 2006 page move). Their explanation follows:

Nothing links to it, and the redirect takes to a page which does not mention the name Romulus Augustus. Seems not just pointless but confusing as it interferes with the genuine Romulus Augustulus.
— User:In Vitrio 09:12, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

There indeed is no mention of "Romulus Augustus" at the target (or List of Marvel Comics characters: T#Tyrannus, where Tyrannus (comics) now points specifically), but this is otherwise a procedural nomination where I have no opinion of my own. WCQuidditch 10:54, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Pagkaanghang

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WP:RLOTE. I retargeted Anghang to a mention at Filipino cuisine#Characteristics, but these ones are not used anywhere on the English Wikipedia. 1234qwer1234qwer4 03:53, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiepda

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It is unlikely to swap the p and the e, while also missing the i at the end. Two totally different errors = implausible. Utopes (talk / cont) 03:35, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep, page views for the last 10 years show that every once in awhile someone uses this spelling and the redirect takes them to the correct page. So not implausible but probably to be expected, with people using all kinds of spellings for almost everything nowadays. Randy Kryn (talk) 03:57, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    (edit conflict) All pageviews for Wikipedia redirects are going to be outliers due to popularity, but even so, this has 2 views a month, compared to the million views that Wikipedia gets every month (basically the bottom of the barrel for Wikipedia targeting redirects). This redirect hits one of our most popular articles on the site, so there are people (including myself) who click through the incoming redirects just on principle. Wikipedia has 200+ live incoming redirects, which capture basically every individual error that someone can dream up. 2+ random errors combined, with no rhyme or reason, is just poor search construction. Dropping a letter and switching two around gives us Wiipedai or Wkipeida also, both of which we don't need. Utopes (talk / cont) 04:46, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. This would be a no-brainer WP:R3 if it were new. This is an extremely unlikely typo, and no reasonable person should even expect it to work. Having to type 10 keystrokes again isn't much of a burden, nor is it even necessarily, since the search function seems to suggest the correct article anyway. There are conservatively billions of such possible typos for this degree of error, and we shouldn't be making redirects for them without a specific reason to. 35.139.154.158 (talk) 04:45, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per IP35. 49.151.187.185 talk 07:43, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, essentially per WP:PANDORA. 88.97.192.42 (talk) 10:28, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
delete per 35. drinks or coffee ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 ₍ᐢ. .ᐢ₎ choose only one... 16:12, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

10 (EP)

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Erroneously created redirect. 10 is simply not an EP. Roast (talk) 02:57, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy delete per nom. 𝔅𝔦𝔰-𝔖𝔢𝔯𝔧𝔢𝔱𝔞? 12:29, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
retarget per EurekaLott. drinks or coffee ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 ₍ᐢ. .ᐢ₎ choose only one... 16:14, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia’s

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Quebec's was recently deleted. This is a recently created page (2023) that contains a curly-quotation, and is unlikely to be useful. Only one link. Utopes (talk / cont) 02:54, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy delete per nom. This is a clearly implausible redirect via the use of the curly-quotation combined with the -’s suffix. 𝔅𝔦𝔰-𝔖𝔢𝔯𝔧𝔢𝔱𝔞? 12:46, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Calcium ion

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Calcium ions are not limited to their function in biology, and similar redirects for metal ions generally point at the articles on the elements. Some of these have been previously retargeted. 1234qwer1234qwer4 02:53, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Retarget all to Calcium per nom. 𝔅𝔦𝔰-𝔖𝔢𝔯𝔧𝔢𝔱𝔞? 12:46, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Retarget all to calcium to be consistent with other alkali and alkaline earth metal ions (though the ion could probably have its own article), except delete Ca2 to avoid confusion in implying a dicalcium molecule. Mdewman6 (talk) 19:55, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Retarget all. Even if the ion's significance in biology is much greater than its significance elsewhere, it doesn't really seem a good idea to point it elsewhere. I don't understand Mdewman6's point about dicalcium, so no opinion on that suggestion. Nyttend (talk) 21:11, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Variari

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According to a web search this is a name for fennel in Gujarati, but it is not mentioned anywhere and might meet WP:RLOTE even if retargeted. 1234qwer1234qwer4 02:32, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

State marker

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Apparently a short form of state historical marker, I would think the more common use of this term would be boundary markers, or even more broadly various survey markers, but there may be other uses as well (presumably any marker of the various types of states). Not sure if retargeting or disambiguation is best. Mdewman6 (talk) 02:05, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Historic Interest

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Seems like too specific a target for such a vague and broad term. Also note that the lowercase historic interest doesn't exist. Delete unless an appropriate target can be identified. Mdewman6 (talk) 01:52, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A home page

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Useless. Compare A Main Page. * Pppery * it has begun... 23:09, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Pat McAfee Show 2.0

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Non-notable podcast. 2.0 was created after McAfee left Barstool and lasted for around a year, before he went back to radio with DAZN/Westwood One. It then became a separate podcast while McAfee and his crew began touring the U.S. as part of his Get Up!, College GameDay and WWE appearances, and was put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It now serves as a shortened version of his daily show, with particular focus on the interviews. APM (talk) 15:26, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Refine to Pat McAfee#Pat McAfee Inc. which has content about the search term. We don't want to encourage the creation of an article about something that is individually non-notable (which a redlink can do) but we do want to help readers find content they are looking for when we have that, which is exactly what redirects are good for. Thryduulf (talk) 16:01, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Washington State agency redirects

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Delete per WP:RETURNTORED, the target article does not contain anything more than a list to state agencies, and the redirects create a circular situation for our readers that links back to itself while making our editors think these articles exist where a WP:REDLINK would be more appropriate. —Locke Coletc 15:39, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • How many of these are actually notable? My first thought is expanding the list so that each entry has a short summary of the agency with a link to a dedicated article or section only where one exists, with these titles remaining as redirects to the list. Thryduulf (talk) 15:58, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    See WP:REDYES, but I'd say at least half of these are notable enough to warrant their own article, with the remainder being borderline. AFAIK there is no article where these agencies are discussed, and a short summary would be better off in a stub for later expansion if we're not going to put these back to redlinks as WP:RETURNTORED suggests. —Locke Coletc 16:08, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Alternatively, we could keep the redirects (tagging the more promising ones with {{R with possibilities}}, if they aren't already), and remove the links from the list. WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:35, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I would potentially agree if the redirect target had any useful content, though I think the blue link gives the false impression there's an actual article where a red link stands out to interested parties as being something they might be able to research and create an article for. See WP:REDYES for more. Also, the last four in this RFD list are linked from {{Washington}}, a navbox in use on hundreds of pages.
I guess it's also worth stating that these are all very recently created redirects, seemingly created to turn red links blue with any means necessary. I don't think linking to a list of agency names and nothing else is really the reason we create a redirect typically. —Locke Coletc 04:31, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Mao Tsé-Toung

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Nominating per WP:FORRED, Mao Zedong was not French. ArthananWarcraft (talk) 18:23, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Exposing

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Partial title match for which this song is not remotely the primary topic. I don't think we have a good redirect target and I'd delete, though Expose does exist. Rusalkii (talk) 17:58, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Retarget to Expose. It is very obvious the remix is not as notable as the present participle of "Expose". Secondly, "Exposing" is a partial title match for 4 other articles, excluding the remix.
Also, I added Exposing to the right to Expose as it is sometimes shortened to just "exposing" for brevity reasons. 𝔅𝔦𝔰-𝔖𝔢𝔯𝔧𝔢𝔱𝔞? 15:54, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Release of Duke Nukem Forever

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really weak nom, sure, but would it be more plausible to retarget to the section on the game's release on its development's article? either i'm misreading things, or that one contains more info on what happened in its release, and from writing this, i think the average reader would be looking for that article consarn (grave) (obituary) 19:17, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Minor Gen 1 and 2 Pokémon characters

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Minor characters unmentioned in a significant capacity on-wiki. Current target does not list them at all. Many of these are just slight alterations on other redirects. Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 18:40, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Pokémon list redirects

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Various listings that are not mentioned at the target article, and are not covered adequately at any other article. Unhelpful and misleading redirects given the lack of coverage on them, especially since many pertain to specific and minor groups. Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 18:39, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Russische invasie van Oekraïne sinds 2022

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Nominating per WP:FORRED, the Russian invasion of Ukraine does not involve the Netherlands. ArthananWarcraft (talk) 17:12, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

David B

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Ambiguous term, can also refer to David Beckham, David Berkowitz, etc. ArthananWarcraft (talk) 16:50, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

yes, should be a disambiguation, as there also is David Beauchard, known as David B. Fram (talk) 17:00, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
What you'd be after is at List of people named David#B. -- Tavix (talk) 17:53, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Either a redirect to that, or a disambig for people who are actually referred to as David B (with a see also to that more general list). Fram (talk) 18:01, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, good point on limiting it to people actually referred to as such. I don't see Beckham or Berkowitz using "David B" as a nickname though so this can be a retarget to Beauchard. -- Tavix (talk) 18:12, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Disambiguate; the listed links are a good starting point. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 17:53, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Retarget to List of people named David#B; I'm not entirely sure why Tavix wants to say that David Beauchard is the primary topic here, but hey, disambiguation work already done for us, neat. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 18:19, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
If you're searching "David B.", chances are that you're looking for someone who uses it as their nickname and not a random David whose last name starts with the letter B. Per the David Beauchard article, he is known by the pen name "David B." I was unable to find attestation of someone else who uses "David B." as a nickname, pen name, etc. In the chance someone is looking for some other David, that's why I'm recommending adding a hatnote. -- Tavix (talk) 18:46, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Primitive Rye

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This term is not described on the English Wikipedia, though some article content used to exist at the page. 1234qwer1234qwer4 14:29, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Bosporum

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Only mention of this on the English Wikipedia seems to be a quote at History_of_agriculture_in_the_Indian_subcontinent#Iron_Age_India_(1500_BCE_–_200_CE). Does not appear helpful to the reader, and might meet WP:RLOTE. 1234qwer1234qwer4 14:13, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Silverhull buckwheat

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This kind of buckwheat is not described anywhere on the English Wikipedia. 1234qwer1234qwer4 14:09, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Weak keep The Greek Wikipedia article names a Fagopyrum acutatum also known as Japanese or silverhull buckwheat. Fagopyrum acutatum is a synonym for Fagopyrum cymosum and redirects there. However, the Agricultural Research Service lists silverhull buckwheat as a common name for the main Fagopyrum esculentum species described at Buckwheat. Synonyms are the main type of situation where I'm comfortable with an {{R without mention}}, but given the discrepancy with another language Wikipedia and the likelihood that a user searching this term is looking for more specific information, I'll come down as a weak keep. --BDD (talk) 22:00, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Avenalin

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Not described on the English Wikipedia. 1234qwer1234qwer4 13:59, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ryep

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Not mentioned at target; according to Berom_people#Land_and_natural_features this is some sort of cactus (though unsourced). 1234qwer1234qwer4 13:40, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Rye Extract

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Target does not describe extracts; otherwise there seem to be only passing mentions at List of additives in cigarettes and List of soft drinks by country. 1234qwer1234qwer4 13:33, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oralmat

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A brand of rye extract not described at the target; originally created as an unsourced stub. 1234qwer1234qwer4 13:30, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Death of Hawwa Yumn Rasheed

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The page was moved to "Death of Hawwa Yumn Rasheed" by another editor and I moved it back. I don't see how this redirect would be useful since she's not dead. UnilandofmaTalk 10:33, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment Death of X redirects can be useful when X is dead, when X is notably claimed to be dead (e.g. Death of Paul McCartneyPaul is dead) or commonly mistakenly thought to be dead. The last of those is the one that might be relevant here, the subject was the victim of a crime that could very plausibly have resulted in her death and from Google results, some news outlets might have reported her as having died, for example [2] however that website is currently broken for me (500 server error) and isn't available on archive.org or archive.is so I can't check whether it actually did do that nor how reliable it is. I'm also not finding enough relevant English language results generally to get a reliable impression of how common a misconception her having died is or isn't. This does make me lean towards deletion but not far enough to actually !vote to delete. Thryduulf (talk) 13:24, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I agree with what you mean and I went on the link you provided (it's not broken for me at least ) and while it does say that the subject is dead, I found no other sources that corroborate it. Many news reports claim the subject was left for dead but the subject is alive. A misconception could have some thinking that the subject is dead but also I doubt many would assume the subject is dead. UnilandofmaTalk 17:23, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Chiquita sticker

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2020_August_16#Kiwi_sticker User:Someone-123-321 (I contribute, Talk page so SineBot will shut up) 09:28, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nakanai Mountains

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This should WP:RETURNTORED, rather than pointing a list of caves. None of the five caves in the Papua New Guinea list are in this mountain range, so I am unsure of the history here, but it seems doubtful any mountain or mountain range should point to an article on only its caves. CMD (talk) 08:32, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Arthur Gets Grounded

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This is related to Cailou Gets Grounded, a page that has been created and deleted many-a times. As such, since many prior discussions over on Talk:Cailou have stated many times that CGG is not reliable and should also not have a article or even redirect anywhere.

So, since this is related to CGG... User:Someone-123-321 (I contribute, Talk page so SineBot will shut up) 08:28, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, due to general sourcing problems around the notability of the so-called "grounded" videos. --Minoa (talk) 14:49, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Ruse of the Century

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Implausable redirect, not a notable term and instead a phrase that was used by the commentary team, therefore WP:PRIMARYCzello (music) 07:00, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

TWA Flight 74

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Incorrect call sign, this flight is not involved in the hijacking. --Min☠︎rax«¦talk¦» 06:22, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Rule 62

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no mentions of a "rule 62" in the target article, though there is a Rule 62 (album). 2A0E:1D47:9085:D200:6311:CAC1:2EA3:44E4 (talk) 12:49, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Comment. Hrm, apparently I missed that. But yeah, even still, it's a single primary source. And while the quotes might be sourced, it's unclear that the information surrounding them is too. In any case, I think there's so little here that the page history isn't really needed, and again "rule ##" is so generic and used in so many places, that it shouldn't point to one particular rule 62. In this case, it actually happens to be the name of something, so let that have the page title. 35.139.154.158 (talk) 15:58, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete It's pretty obviously non-notable, just an excerpt from a guidebook in its original state. Alternatively, restore the article so that it may be nominated for deletion, though that's really unnecessary bureaucracy. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ () 11:52, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • There is also passing mention of a Rule 62 at Elementary cellular automaton#Images for rules 0-99, but there is not enough in the encyclopedia to merit disambiguation. Move Rule 62 (album) to Rule 62, and add a hatnote to the elementary cellular automaton mention. BD2412 T 19:46, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ABC World News with Diane Sawyer

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Keep Closed discussion, see full discussion. Result was: speedy keep as an erroneous nomination. The ones that are redirects actually already target ABC World News Tonight where they're explained. -- Tavix (talk) 13:52, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Pig Island (Newfoundland and Labrador)

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

Free-market socialist

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Free-market socialism redirects to Market socialism#Classical economics, Free market (socialism) redirects to Free market#Socialism. Should all three have the same target? मल्ल (talk) 02:25, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tiste Liosan

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Delete. A fictional fantasy race, not mentioned in the target article or elsewhere in Wikipedia. Was an unreferenced stub article in 2006 until it was redirected. Mika1h (talk) 23:02, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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UK Rampage

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Both pages were redirected because they lacked "in-depth coverage from independent, reliable sources to show they pass WP:GNG". This creates a new problem where the target article makes no mention of the events. FMecha (to talk|to see log) 15:46, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The better target is WWE in the United Kingdom. Onel5969 TT me 09:38, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Surprise attack

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This was linked on the Iran–Israel war page but it’s only mentioned once in the entire page of the target and Google search results don’t indicate that this is the right target. Thepharoah17 (talk) 18:55, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Metroid IV

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Delete per Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2016 June 15#Metroid 4, and the fact that Metroid 4 has been recreated so many times that the title had to be creation-protected. Steel1943 (talk) 23:06, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Iacovos Hadjiconstantinou

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Outcome of AfD Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Iacovos Hadjiconstantinou. Would be better to redirect to Cyprus at the 2016 Summer Olympics where he is actually mentioned. LibStar (talk) 23:46, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Retarget to Cyprus at the 2016 Summer Olympics per nom. 𝔅𝔦𝔰-𝔖𝔢𝔯𝔧𝔢𝔱𝔞? 15:03, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Boris Gets Grounded

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All part of the Vyond "grounded videos" saga that got nuked from the article as non-notable content. LoTrWiki (talk) 20:26, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Early Start

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

Andrew Scordato

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These two redirects were originally nominated for R3 but I removed the tags since they were not recently created. After this edit they are {{R without mention}}s however and should probably be deleted. Warudo (talk) 22:16, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Clicky-clack keyboard

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Doesn't seem all that useful, kind of ambiguous, as this could definitely be referred to as Mechanical keyboard. This should be either deleted or retargeted to that article. Justjourney (talk | contribs) 20:56, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete as novel. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 23:27, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Retarget to Keyboard technology as per Thryduulf; if ImStevan is correct and people do use this term, Justjourney is still correct in that it's ambiguous. The proposed retarget discusses pretty much all possibilities, including buckling-spring keyboard, mechanical keyboard, et al. I'd like to note however that the proposed refinement to #Notable Switch Mechanisms is an oddly formatted section; the title presents it as a discussion of multiple mechanisms, but only buckling-spring is talked about, with other mechanisms being discussed further up at Keyboard technology#Keystroke sensing. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 18:04, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: A quick search shows that there are people using this term — IмSтevan talk 08:36, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@ImStevan When referring to what keyboards? Justjourney (talk | contribs) 15:21, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Exclamation mark!

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I'm not sure if this redirect is necessary since having punctuation marks at the end in this case is considered WP:UNNATURAL and we don't have redirects such as Question mark?, Period., Colon:, etc. ArthananWarcraft (talk) 17:48, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Grand-Lahou (Lagunes)

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I don't see any relationship between Eevee and this A1Cafel (talk) 17:08, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Retarget to Grand-Lahou, which is a town in Southern Ivory Coast. In Lagunes District which is a capital in Grand-Lahou Department. TentingZones1 (talk) 21:46, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Martin Steers

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

Auftakt für Brighton

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Appears to have been a related television programme produced by the German public broadcaster ARD ahead of the Eurovision Song Contest 1974, however there is no mention of this on the target article, nor on any other related articles. As a German phrase it is also unlikely to be a useful search team to retain as a redirect. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 15:53, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Schlottmann

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Wikipedia also has articles about people with the surname Schlottmann: Austin Schlottmann, Carl Schlottmann and William F. Schlottmann. ArthananWarcraft (talk) 12:52, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Pokémon/Bulbasaur

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These seem to be leftovers from erroneous article creations. They have no use and can be deleted. Manifestation (talk) 09:52, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The Real Housewives of Budapest

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Keep Closed discussion, see full discussion. Result was: Withdrawn. It was mentioned at target and just didn't find it. My bad.

Wikipedia's article about itself

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Quite an odd redirect, I'm not sure if this should exist. ArthananWarcraft (talk) 08:34, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

FIFA World Cupt

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Unlikely typo, the "P" and the "T" are far from each other on the keyboard. ArthananWarcraft (talk) 08:19, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Storming

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This redirect, created many years ago without an explanation, isn't actually mentioned as such at the destination page which is about the weather, and it obfuscates the search which shows how this word is more typically used. Joy (talk) 14:04, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep with hatnote. wikt:storm indicates that as a verb, 'storm' can be used either to indicate actual meteorological events (or compare things to it)-- in which case the current target is correct and is probably the primary target-- or, to indicate an assault on a military objective-- in which case redirection to an appropriate military strategy article might be a good idea. With two potential targets, disambiguation is the word-- and with one being the clear primary target, we should use a hatnote to disambiguate, rather than a dedicated disambiguation page. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 16:09, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Lunamann I filed this after this edit happened.
We can't have disambiguation between a meaning that is documented and a meaning that is not. If we try to follow the breadcrumbs from assault to get to storming, it ends at military tactics, which mentions assault but doesn't mention storming. So a prerequisite to what you're saying is documenting storming in an article like that. I didn't want to propose a solution that would force volunteers to do more work, rather, just use what we already have.
I see no evidence that this form of this verb is primarily used for meteorological events.
With regard to hatnotes, the storm article already has two, so adding a third one for a meaning that doesn't really match the primary topic for the base term would add more visual clutter for all the other readers who did not look up this present participle.
JFTR, if storming was squashed with storm (disambiguation), it would be part of a genuinely huge list, most of which is unrelated to "storming". If we point readers to wikt:storming, it doesn't explain this meaning. wikt:storm does, but on a page where the reader has to scroll down a lot to get to that (six pages (PgDn) on my big desktop screen; on mobile, they have to tap the English heading, and then engage in manual scrolling (no PgDn there) for about seven screen-fulls to get to that meaning :)
--Joy (talk) 09:41, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I... what. Why exactly was that line deleted??? I'd honestly think restoring that line and finding a place to link it to would be the best route forward?? Idk anymore aaaaa 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 21:28, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, if someone would find some nice reliable source to explain the use of storming as such in an article, that would provide for a WP:DABMENTION. --Joy (talk) 08:26, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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///

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the adidas three stripes as seen in their logo aren't forward slashes (/) but back slashes (\).

also, "///" is a much better way to instead textually represent the blush stickers / luminescent blush on anime characters... which is currently something we don't cover to my knowledge. User:Someone-123-321 (I contribute, Talk page so SineBot will shut up) 08:09, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

!vote

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Previous RfDs for this redirect and similar redirects:

Not mentioned at target. The current situation, while the result of an RfD, amounts to an attempted compromise that just splits the baby; either this bit of wikijargon deserves a cross-namespace redirect or it doesn't and should be deleted; in no other situation would we redirect to a mainspace target that merely provides vague hints of this sort. * Pppery * it has begun... 20:09, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete or retarget to match WP:!VOTE. I agree with Pppery. The information at Negation is not enough to understand this term, because !vote as used on Wikipedia doesn't just mean "not a vote", but rather reflects a bit of philosophical history of how our decision-making works. The current target is so unhelpful in clarifying this term that someone has added a hatnote there, resulting in a silly situation where everyone following this redirect to the current target is best served by immediately clicking on the hatnote. —Mx. Granger (talk · contribs) 20:43, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. Neither the arcane programming term nor Wikipedia's own internal jargon deserves this unhelpful and confusing redirect. Bishonen | tålk 21:47, 27 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]
  • Keep. User:Pppery, the target article says, “For example, the phrase !voting means ‘not voting’”. Also, editors in this thread might find a link to the previous RfD useful: link. Regarding the hatnote at the target, it should remain regardless of this redirect, and I don’t see anyone here arguing otherwise. Anythingyouwant (talk) 23:59, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    That example in the article is both unsourced and misleading; the way !vote is actually used (at least in Wikipedia discussions) means something more specific than just "not voting". The text not voting in the article is wikilinked and leads to the Abstention article; that's definitely not what !vote means around here. —Mx. Granger (talk · contribs) 01:22, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Retarget to match WP:!VOTE. Otherwise keep. The current target article clearly explains what the prefix “!” means in ordinary language, and gives the well-sourced example of !clue which means clueless. It’s very difficult to search for words that have the “!” prefix, because search engines ignore the exclamation mark even if the whole term is surrounded by quote marks, but I found this source which correctly defines !vote. Anyway, the main thing is, that people who encounter “!vote” should be able to put it in the Wikipedia search box to find out what it means. I don’t much care how this is achieved, but it should be achieved one way or the other. Anythingyouwant (talk) 05:14, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep per Anythingyouwant's improvements. Readers who read "!" as "Not" should naturally be led to the Negation article. The philosophy behind WP's !vote may be added. The hatnote to the meta term was already there. Another hatnote to Not voting for Abstention, may be added. I don't like the term "ordinary language" in the section title, but that's an article content issue. Jay 💬 06:32, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Yggy Woods

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A minor character not mentioned anywhere else on the encyclopedia following the character list being redirected. Doesn't seem to be particularly useful as a redirect as a result. Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 16:07, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Retarget to Kirby Star Allies, since the character appeared only in that game. Computerfan0 (talk) 00:02, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Computerfan0 this character is unmentioned at that article and also a minor character in the game overall. Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 01:04, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Main Character Syndrome

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No mention of subject at target article. Seemingly coined term. Jalen Barks (Woof) 03:54, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

--Posted by Pikamander2 (Talk) at 08:58, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
A majority of those sources seem to acknowledge the distinction from narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder for both terms. As far as the last 5 years are concerned (see WP:MOSMED), these are not the same. Jalen Barks (Woof) 04:14, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:REDYES. voorts (talk/contributions) 17:37, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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DYRG

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No longer mentioned at target after May 14 redirect AfD closure and May 5 restore RfD closure. Delete enough article creation per WP:REDYES. 49.151.187.185 (talk) 01:49, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Luring

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None of the subjects listed in the target disambiguation page represent verb-like subjects; all of the subjects are nouns. This means that redirecting the present participle form of "lure" to the disambiguation page is misleading since the redirect represents no alternative forms of any of the subjects listed at the disambiguation page. Delete unless a proper target is found. Steel1943 (talk) 21:00, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. As per wikt:Lure, which is linked on this disambig page, the three verb definitions of "lure" are "to attract fish with a lure", "to recall a hawk with a lure", and "to attract by temptation, appeal, or guile". If the pages on bait (luring substance), fishing lure, or lure (falconry), all three of which are linked here, are not enough, the link to Wiktionary should suffice. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 21:35, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I agree that the conventional use of the verb matches these. I had a look at what this redirect replaces - this search output, and it seems there's three topics of aggressive mimicry that are not properly documented here: caudal luring, lingual luring, acoustical luring. We could add these in the existing list, or we could split this out into a separate disambiguation list, and have the two of them link to one another. --Joy (talk) 08:39, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Seems fine to add to the existing list in my book. No sense making a separate disambig page when those who search for "lure" may be interested in aggressive mimicry as well. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 19:17, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Disney International Operations

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Listed this here for discussion since there is no definitive target to point this to. I'm calling for deletion to encourage article creation for this title. What do you think? Intrisit (talk) 15:40, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. There seems to be no good target for this. SirPenguin25Talk 11:28, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Delete per nom and WP:RETURNTORED 𝔅𝔦𝔰-𝔖𝔢𝔯𝔧𝔢𝔱𝔞? 10:57, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You just got Luigi'd

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No such quote at the target; no "Luigi" section exists on Wikiquote. Wikipedia is not Wikiquote, this is not what people would search to read the Wikiquote page for The Super Mario Bros movie. Utopes (talk / cont) 02:06, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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List of Lviv rabbis

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Not mentioned in article Thepharoah17 (talk) 23:31, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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restore per Utopes. drinks or coffee ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 ₍ᐢ. .ᐢ₎ choose only one... 14:11, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Find The Computer Room!

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Unhelpful soft redirect. The only thing this soft redirect does, is state that "the quote exists" at Wikiquote without providing a source at the target. Unlikely to be intentionally typed, no substantial information is provided to readers, and unnatural capitalization. Utopes (talk / cont) 02:33, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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All who served the revolution have plowed the sea

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This is not the quote that appears at the target. The only mention of "plows in the sea" appears in an image caption without a source. Many quotes are listed at the target, but none of them seem in desperate need of a redirect on Wikipedia to accommodate. Utopes (talk / cont) 02:43, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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A Demon's Game - Episode 1

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Not present in list, seemingly not notable enough for any entries in other video game lists. ScalarFactor (talk) 03:59, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Comment - I'm not familiar with the game, but the redirect was created back in 2018. Perhaps its been since cancelled or released? Either way, if its not mentioned in the article, it should be deleted for now. It doesn't get many views so there's not much to lose here... Sergecross73 msg me 20:18, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fourmula 50

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misspelling of "Formula 50", so delete I think? Duckmather (talk) 22:19, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete. Thought this might be a branding thing, but couldn't find anything. Formula is not a hard word to spell, and I don't think anyone would say it like "four". Doesn't seem necessary. Utopes (talk / cont) 01:49, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Seems to have history as an article from 2009-2012, although it still seems to have been called "Formula 50" even back then. Returning to neutral on this one, although restoring and taking it to AfD would be suitable in my eyes. Utopes (talk / cont) 01:53, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
steal the refs and add them to the target's refideas, and then either...
  • delete if no one can (or wants to) work it in
  • keep or refine to the new section (or an anchor) if someone does
extremely mild opposition to taking it to afd, but only on the basis of that only having two sources (though really, the fact that it had anything at all puts it above most such blars) consarn (grave) (obituary) 19:41, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Day of Death

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another very vague term, maybe retarget to Death? Duckmather (talk) 22:15, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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admittedly, i think three keeps to a weak delete that concluded that there was even more info not worth mentioning in mainspace would result in being closed as keep, but eh consarn (grave) (obituary) 11:05, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The General Public

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This is a very vague term. It could refer to Public (which seems like the most likely target), so I suggest retargeting it. On the other hand, maybe WP:DIFFCAPS applies? Duckmather (talk) 22:14, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Retarget to Public per Adumbrativus. "General Public" (an article on an English rock band) can have a hatnote linking to Portia de Rossi. 𝔅𝔦𝔰-𝔖𝔢𝔯𝔧𝔢𝔱𝔞? 17:10, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Dinowars

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Retarget to Dino Wars (disambiguation). The article was merged to Rod Espinosa#Bibliography per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dinowars. A disambiguation page has been created that didn't exist at the time of the AfD. I think it's better to redirect this to the disambiguation page since there is another title match for "Dinowars". It's also very similar to the other terms titled "Dino Wars". Mika1h (talk) 08:21, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Another idea: move Dinowars to Dinowars (comics). So then Dinowars (comics) redirects to Rod Espinosa#Bibliography and Dinowars redirects to Dino Wars (disambiguation). --Mika1h (talk) 09:29, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Double Seventh Festival

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The name "Double Seventh Festival" can refer to multiple different festivals in East Asia region that all shared the same date of Month 7 Day 7 in local calendar (Hence the name). Current redirect is China-centric and ignored that it can also refer to other festivals in other parts in the region.

There is a disambiguation page Double Seventh Festival (disambiguation) created a long time ago. In year 2014, the disambiguation page went through AfD at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Double Seventh Festival (disambiguation) because author at the time developed a page, then-named "Double Seventh Festival" to try to capture all the different regional variation of Double Seventh Festival across East Asia. But nowadays the name "Double Seventh Festival" become a redirect to Qixi Festival and is explicit in discussing primarily the variant of the festival as participated in China. Which make the page Double Seventh Festival being inappropriate. In addition, Double Seventh Festival (disambiguation) also have no need to have the (disambiguation) text at the end of the disambiguation page title.

But because an disambiguation page, as discussed, is already established at Double Seventh Festival (disambiguation), and cut-and-paste-move is inappropriate for Wikipedia, so I at first tried to fix the situation by starting a move discussion at Talk:List_of_festivals_in_Asia#Requested_move_29_June_2025. However, that discussion resulted in no consensus, thus the situation was not able to resolve.

With this background, I think it would help if this Double Seventh Festival page can be deleted so that Double Seventh Festival (disambiguation) can be moved to Double Seventh Festival to resolve the unnecessary "(disambiguation)" text at the end of the title. C933103 (talk) 01:37, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong forum. What you are proposing is a back-handed way of moving the disambiguation page. Please create a proper WP:RM discussion to establish consensus that there is no primary topic and that the disambiguation page can be moved to the base name. olderwiser 11:39, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Double Fifth Festival

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The name "Double Fifth Festival" can refer to multiple different festivals in East Asia region that all shared the same date of Month 5 Day 5 in local calendar (Hence the name). Current redirect is China-centric and ignored that it can also refer to other festivals in other parts in the region.

It could have been possible to directly turned the page into disambiguation page, but I initially created the disambiguation page at Double Fifth, which then I moved it to Double Fifth Festival (disambiguation) as "Double Fifth Festival" seemed more appropriate and consistent with other similarly named pages like Double Third Festival and Double Ninth Festival (But the article of Double Third and Double Ninth use the same article to introduce celebration in all regions instead for the time being, possibly because they are less notable in term of celebration and local development of these two are less diverse across the region, hence they aren't redirect or disambiguation page.). But then I realized I shouldn't attach "(disambiguation)" to the title of such page name when it is avoidable, therefore I started a move discussion at Talk:List_of_festivals_in_Asia#Requested_move_29_June_2025. However, that discussion resulted in no consensus, thus the situation was not able to resolve.

With this background, I think it would help if this Double Fifth Festival page can be deleted so that Double Fifth Festival (disambiguation) can be moved to Double Fifth Festival to resolve the unnecessary "(disambiguation)" text at the end of the title. C933103 (talk) 01:26, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong forum. What you are proposing is a back-handed way of moving the disambiguation page. Please create a proper WP:RM discussion to establish consensus that there is no primary topic and that the disambiguation page can be moved to the base name. olderwiser 11:39, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

SmartPAR

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Not currently mentioned anywhere on the English Wikipedia, but content originally hosted on this page was previously merged into the target in Special:Diff/700490758. 1234qwer1234qwer4 01:09, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ZipStar

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Used to be an unsourced stub on some archiving tool; not mentioned anywhere in our articles though. 1234qwer1234qwer4 00:51, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

GIFSCII

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Not mentioned in any of our articles. 1234qwer1234qwer4 00:32, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Blinky (image)

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Not explained at target, and appears to be a rather obscure term. 1234qwer1234qwer4 00:27, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Retreat, Hell No!

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Not what Williams said ("Retreat, hell"). Also, (miscapitalized) quotes generally don't merit redirects, and this isn't the exception. Clarityfiend (talk) 09:31, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Rebecca Steers

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This is not a useful redirect in its present form, as the only information about the subject is a single sentence saying they are the founder. There are a couple of other similary-sized mentions that would be equally poor targets, and a long sentence at Cam FM#Alumni that actually gives a little bit of information which makes it clear that none of the other mentions are remotely comprehensive. Googling them under their current name and their deadname (Martin Steers) suggests they're quite possibly notable under both names, so I suggest delete per WP:RETURNTORED or, as a second choice, retargetting to Cam FM#Alumni. Thryduulf (talk) 20:08, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrator intervention against vandalism

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While this currently redirects to a section in the article Vandalism on Wikipedia, similar redirects with noticeboard titles in the article namespace are cross-namespace redirects to the project namespace. For example: Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents

Should we retarget this redirect to the Wikipedia namespace or leave as is? SeaHaircutSoilReplace 19:02, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep. Where there is relevant encyclopaedic content, targetting that is very nearly always preferable to a cross-namespace redirect. You don't provide any reasons why this would be an exception and I can't think of any myself. Thryduulf (talk) 19:53, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Martin Steers

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deletion, per WP:DEADNAME Bogger (talk) 18:07, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Il-Fontana (It-Triq tal-Għajn)

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Local language name of the place combined with an unnatural disambiguator of an alternate name in the local language. 𝔅𝔦𝔰-𝔖𝔢𝔯𝔧𝔢𝔱𝔞? 16:55, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ir-Rabat, Għawdex (Victoria)

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Local language name of the place combined with the local language name of the island it is on and an unnatural disambiguator of the place name in English. 𝔅𝔦𝔰-𝔖𝔢𝔯𝔧𝔢𝔱𝔞? 16:52, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I had created this redirect back in 2014 - it must have been a redlink somewhere and I must have created a redirect instead of fixing the link. I have no objection of deleting this as I agree with the arguments above (on another note, the page should really be "Victoria, Gozo" not "Victoria, Malta", but that's a discussion for another day). Xwejnusgozo (talk) 18:49, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Xwejnusgozo, on the topic of "Victoria, Gozo", I absolutely agree with you that it should be changed. Perhaps a move discussion can be opened on the article. 𝔅𝔦𝔰-𝔖𝔢𝔯𝔧𝔢𝔱𝔞? 19:06, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Korean civilization

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Not sure where this should point to. Thepharoah17 (talk) 05:42, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Moomer

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Term not defined in target article. I can't see any strong sources with which to add it there, and the unreliable ones seem to use it inconsistently to mean "a boomer who acts like a millennial", "a millennial who acts like a boomer" or just "a millennial". Belbury (talk) 15:54, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Te Oreore

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Te Oreore is rural locality located outside of Masterton, redirecting to the Masterton article (where it is not mentioned, nor should it really be because it isn't part of Masterton) isn't useful for readers. Traumnovelle (talk) 04:00, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment, "Te Oreore" is mentioned in Masterton#Marae, and an alternative spelling of "Te Ore Ore" is used earlier in the article as well. Utopes (talk / cont) 04:13, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I've removed that claim as it is unreferenced and does not appear to have any non-circular source to support it. The marae in question is located in Te Oreore and not Masterton, regardless people looking for Te Oreore would be looking for the locality and not the marae. Traumnovelle (talk) 21:25, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment every mention of "Te Oreore" on Wikipedia that I can find that clearly relates to something geographical is referring to a marae and Masterton#Marae is very clearly the most useful target we have for that. Homebush, Masterton#Demographics begins "Homebush-Te Ore Ore statistical area" but that's the only use of the term on that page. There are multiple mentions of a place called "Te Ore Ore", all but one of them describing it as "near Masterton" (e.g. Pāora Te Potangaroa) the other using the less precise "Te Ore Ore, Wairarapa". I'm not sure what the best outcome here is, but if it is something other than delete then Te Ore Ore should be created as a redirect to the same target and one should be categorised as a {{R avoided double redirect}} of the other. Thryduulf (talk) 09:54, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Those mentions were made in an automated/semi-automated fashion based on a spreadsheet. So I am removing them from the other articles. I have kept and changed the entry at Masterton with a source that supports its inclusion in the article in question and have created Te Ore Ore marae as a redirect. Traumnovelle (talk) 23:25, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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List of mountain passes in Albania

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Would this not be better at Geography of Albania rather than the category? It's not like the category is an exact match for Category:Mountain passes in Albania. --woodensuperman 15:19, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, have just realised that Category:Mountain passes of Albania exists. Not a fan of cross namespace redirects personally, but maybe see what others think. --woodensuperman 15:31, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

HermitCraft

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No longer mentioned at target. * Pppery * it has begun... 14:54, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

SVG BAsic

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Appears to be an WP:UNNATURAL error. 1234qwer1234qwer4 14:14, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

SharePointCOE

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Not explained anywhere on the English Wikipedia. 1234qwer1234qwer4 01:57, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Restore this was BLARed in 2020 by Premeditated Chaos with the rationale "redirect marketing to the product that was being marketed". The article content was, in its entirety: MSharePointCOE is a Microsoft strategy for evangelization and sharing of SharePoint across Enterprise. and three categories, there were no sources. Unfortunately this needs to be restored and either merged somewhere or deleted at AfD as it does not meet a speedy deletion criterion and thus cannot be deleted here. Thryduulf (talk) 12:38, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per Thryduulf's explanation sans the last sentence. Because this is a redirect, and this is the forum for deleting redirects, this can (and should!) be deleted here. -- Tavix (talk) 14:56, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    This is a blarred article, and as such needs to be treated as an article for the reasons I have to explain to you every time you try to inappropriately delete article content at RfD, despite never getting a consensus to change the policy to support your view. Thryduulf (talk) 15:40, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    the policy (or whatever you want to cite for this, i'll go with wp:blar for now) doesn't support your view either. it deliberately says nothing about if a blar goes to rfd. it's also been stable as a redirect for a little over 5 years, so unless you can make a genuine argument for restoring its content beyond a procedural headache that introduces problematic stuff back into mainspace for at least a week, there's no actual opposition to it being blanked
    i also still have no idea where you got the csd idea from, as it probably wouldn't even count as "being deleted here", but that's probably besides the point consarn (grave) (obituary) 15:57, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
There isn't a policy that supports his views. If there was one he would have cited it. Instead he has to resort to vague waves. -- Tavix (talk) 16:08, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Show me one policy that says you can delete article content at RfD. Just one. I've been asking this for literally years and you've never presented one yet. Whereas I have pointed you to the deletion policy every time.
  • WP:ATD-R: A page can be blanked and redirected if there is a suitable page to redirect to, and if the resulting redirect is not inappropriate. If the change is disputed, such as by reversion, an attempt should be made to reach a consensus before blank-and-redirecting again. The preferred venue for doing so is the appropriate deletion discussion venue for the pre-redirect content, although sometimes the dispute may be resolved on the page's talk page. This BLAR has been disputed by its nomination here, and by everybody who has agreed it is inappropriate.
  • WP:XFD states that articles and other pages in the main namespace go to AfD or Prod. It does exclude redirects, but because the BLAR has been disputed we discuss the pre-redirect content which is not a redirect.
I didn't cite these before because I didn't think you'd need to be spoonfed again after I've spoonfed you the same exact links on multiple occasions. Thryduulf (talk) 19:47, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
that's better. this still spawns problems, though
  • what is your actual argument for or against the content of this blar? judging by you describing the fact that this "needs to be restored" as unfortunate, i don't imagine you're exactly in favor of restoring it due to its own merits and not out of procedure. if you're not in favor of it, has the blar even been disputed? i'd say it hasn't
  • neither of the pages you cited state conclusively that blars need to go to afd. atd-r says it's "preferred", but doesn't mandate or oppose them going elsewhere. xfd i still don't get, because it specifically excludes redirects from afd. this is why i asked for something that didn't only have afd as an example a couple comments down
it's admittedly pedantic, but it's a case where the details are what answer the questions consarn (grave) (obituary) 20:05, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It is unfortunate that something that is clearly not suitable as a stand-alone article in its current state cannot be deleted without less bureaucracy than AfD (or I suppose PROD) but unless and until policy changes to explicitly allow article content to be deleted at venues that are not intended for or set-up for discussing article content, and there is some method to advertise to interested parties that a venue which doesn't normally discuss article content is actually discussing article content, that is the way it has to be. Every BLAR that gets brought to RfD is, by definition, being contested. Every person who recommends something other than keeping such a redirect as a redirect to its current target is, by definition, contesting the BLAR. I have also explicitly contested the BLAR, so yes, this BLAR is unambiguously contested.
I note you still have not provided a link to or quote of any policy that supports your position. Thryduulf (talk) 20:36, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
As for some method to advertise to interested parties... WP:AALERTS includes RfD and each WP:DELSORT topic includes a section for redirects (if someone wants to advertise a discussion there). You can also post a notice to the relevant WikiProject(s). -- Tavix (talk) 20:59, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
how is taking a blar to rfd more bureaucratic than restoring it and taking it to afd? maybe it's more bureaucratic than prodding, but that's like saying that a blender is better at blending stuff than a wooden spoon consarn (grave) (obituary) 22:17, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Thryduulf: None of what you listed supports it does not meet a speedy deletion criterion and thus cannot be deleted here. WP:ATD-R explains what happens when someone BLARs an article and someone disputes that. In this scenario, you then have an intact article (not a redirect), so the logical place to dispute that would be AfD. That's not the scenario here—the page has long been established as a redirect and the selection of venue has already been established as RfD. It was nominated due to a lack of mention, which is an RfD concern that does not touch on BLAR whatsoever, so this BLAR has been disputed by its nomination here is false. Furthermore, the RFC that established this clause explicitly addressed this: This close does not comment on WP:RFD suitability for BLARs in any scenario, nor does it comment on what deletion venue is appropriate for what kind of page. WP:XFD explicitly explains that Redirects for discussion (RfD): Redirects, including soft redirects, in any namespace. Given the fact that this is a redirect, and WP:XFD doesn't list any exceptions to this, RfD is the correct venue. For your interpretation to be correct, it would have to say something like "Redirects, including soft redirects, in any namespace, with the exception of former article content not speediable", which of course it doesn't do. As for, you've never presented one yet, here's an example from three(!) years ago where I provided you with the relevant policy when asked. -- Tavix (talk) 20:48, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
please don't remind me that 2022 was 3 years ago...
to add to this, even assuming that arguing for deleting the blar with opposition to restoring it is "contesting" it, and any form of "contest" is worthy of restoring it anyway (however that works), then i can and probably should provide examples of this apparently existant rule being violated by admins, because this is the first time i hear of that
not assuming it, i really want to know what thryduulf thinks explicitly prohibits blars being deleted here and/or requires them going to afd despite agreements that the content isn't worth restoring (in this case, by what seems to be everyone but the nom lmao) consarn (grave) (obituary) 21:56, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
If you are just going to claim that policy says something other than what it actually says then it's clear that anything else I say is going to be a waste of all our time, so I shall not say anything more. Thryduulf (talk) 23:03, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I don't mind being spoonfed policies, it's no sweat off my back. But don't make the claim that you don't want to waste time when you're literally advocating to waste AfD's time. -- Tavix (talk) 00:01, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Following policy as it is written is not a waste of time. Thryduulf (talk) 00:32, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
That's not how Wikipedia works. -- Tavix (talk) 01:53, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
problem: it's verifiably not written how you say it is either. as i mentioned a couple times before, if it was, a fair bit of admins would either be in trouble for breaking a rule this important or not discussing whether or not it even exists, but that hasn't been happening a whole lot beyond this routine (at least to my knowledge) consarn (grave) (obituary) 11:15, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • delete. there's no sources, no content, no promotional stuff to make fun of, nothing. honestly, i'd argue for it being a case of a3 or a7 for a quick laugh, but this is a redirect, so it doesn't meet a csd for articles~ consarn (grave) (obituary) 15:12, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    As an article it would not meet A3 because the content, although very short, does exist and it is not just a rephrasing of the title, an attempt to correspond, a question or chat-like comments and it does not consist solely of images, template tags or article wizard framework. It does not meet A7 because it is about a marketing strategy which is not a real person, individual animal, commercial or non-commercial organization, web content, or organized event. There is enough context that it doesn't meet A1 either, it's not a hoax or vandalism (G3), it's not promoting anything (G11), a copyright violation (G12), a musical recording (A9), a recently-created duplicate (A10), nor is it obviously invented (A11). The only time it is possible, according to every policy, guideline and principle, to delete article content at RfD is when there has previously been a consensus discussion about the article content on the talk page or other venue for discussing article content that concluded it is not wanted (it hasn't been discussed in any such venue, so it's not possible for there to be such a consensus) or it would a speedy deletion criterion if restored (as explained in detail, it does not). Thryduulf (talk) 15:48, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    it's pretty obvious that this doesn't really meet any csd. however, tagging it for a tangentially related one would be funny
    ...jokes aside, citation needed for that use of "every". preferably one that isn't undermined by a text string such as "such as" consarn (grave) (obituary) 16:09, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Knowingly tagging anything for a CSD that it doesn't meet is vandalism. Vandalism is not funny. I should have said "every relevant policy that has anything to say on the matter" rather than assume you would understand that I wasn't being literal. I'm not sure why providing examples (as I've just done above) undermine my point when you've consistently failed to provide any examples of policy explicitly allowing the deletion of articles at RfD. Thryduulf (talk) 19:51, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    the reason i've been careful with my use of "every" in discussions like this, even if i then narrow the definition down to something more useful than "everything i could find", is that it first requires an "any". and then another, and then another, if you're in a good mood, and that those "any"s be in such unambiguous and unanimous (if not necessarily numerous, as this part is contextual) nature that nothing opposes them. the fact that an "any" hasn't been defined yet by the failure to actually be conclusive lends little credibility to an "every", even if it's narrowed down to "every relevant x"
    as for the examples, as usual, i cite wp:xfd, which says that redirects go to rfd, and wp:rfd, which says that redirects can be deleted in rfd. sure, neither of them being specific about where blars have to go is a double-edged sword, as this means i myself technically have nothing to state directly and conclusively that states directly and conclusively that redirects have to go to rfd... which is why i don't say that. i say they can (and i have proof in the aforementioned examples), and i say they don't need to go to afd if they've been stable (thus, not disputed) and it's agreed that the content that would be restored isn't very cash money, and i've shown to only oppose them going to afd from rfd (if only by never having mentioned them going straight to afd, whoops)
    it's much simpler than "blars from articles have article content, so they can only ever be debated in afd, so we need to restore them no matter what, even if it's unambiguously Not Good, unless it's unlucky enough to meet a csd". plus, i can probably do that thing where i dump a bunch of examples of blars getting deleted here with no fuss again (including some where admins have voted to delete), or mention that twinkle has no issue with them going to rfd, or a third thing consarn (grave) (obituary) 20:54, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Restore as per Thryduulf, send directly to AfD. Feels a little short for what I'd normally consider worthy to be sent over to AfD but hey, maybe it can get some love. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 23:34, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Lunamann: I'm willing to give it some love if there is sourcing for it. Did your searches turn up anything promising? If you're able to find something, it seems to me that the most we'd be able to do is add a blurb about SharePointCOE to the target, in which case we can close the RfD as "keep". Restoring is really only useful when there is enough content available for a stand-alone article—if you think that may be possible here, I'd love to hear why. -- Tavix (talk) 14:06, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
i assumed in this discussion that thryduulf looked for sources before voting and didn't mention it for whatever reason, but for what that's worth, i looked into it just now and found... nothing usable, except for the unbelievably important revelation that it's actually "sharepoint coe", with a space consarn (grave) (obituary) 20:02, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Philip Sherwood

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I am not sure this redirect is very useful, linking to a bibliography section with some sources being authored by this person. Looks more like a case for keeping this a red link to potentially encourage article creation. 1234qwer1234qwer4 00:53, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Self Service Portal

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Not described at target, and mentions in other articles seem to be generic and unrelated. 1234qwer1234qwer4 00:46, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sharepoint migration

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Not explained at target; does not seem particularly useful. 1234qwer1234qwer4 00:42, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. A quick Google search reveals "SharePoint migration" or "SharePoint migration tool" is a "migration solution to help you migrate content from on-premises SharePoint sites to Microsoft 365." 𝔅𝔦𝔰-𝔖𝔢𝔯𝔧𝔢𝔱𝔞? 12:29, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
And how exactly does that justify the existence of a redirect to a location where none of that is described? 1234qwer1234qwer4 14:17, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Business Data Catalog

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Not currently mentioned at target, though apparently contents of the article previously existing at the title had been merged into the target at some point. 1234qwer1234qwer4 00:41, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Apocryphal

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Apocryphal is simply an adjective meaning likely untrue. It's a completely different concept from books that were rejected from the Bible Oiyarbepsy (talk) 19:27, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Moral Delete. Sorry everyone, but the mention at the proposed target is unsourced, and violates WP:NOTDICT even if it were, and I'm not sure how useful the adjectival form of the redirect is to ...anywhere, really. But if no one has the fortitude to delete it, I'd say just keep it to match the noun form. If there's a primary topic for that, then it should be for the adjective too, since nothing at the dab page has any particular affinity to it. 35.139.154.158 (talk) 18:53, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Lionsgate

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Point to new Lionsgate DAB page (edited). I have drafted one at User:Myceteae/lionsgate. There are several entities currently or formerly called "Lionsgate". This was the subject of an RM at Lionsgate Studios (May 20), an RFD by User:Intrisit closed as 'keep' with no prejudice to revisiting owing to some confusion in the discussion (June 12), and a subsequent RM at Lionsgate Films (July 3). --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 18:22, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Well, tell that to 204.111.137.20, who reverted similar edits like this with the statement to list such titles here. At least that happened to the Universal Studios title (see its history) To repeat my reply to Natg 19, he/she, Onel5969 and Rodw, the most prominent WP:DPL "addressers" apart from you, retargeted the "Lionsgate" link to Lionsgate Studios in the Barbie (media franchise) page and other pages over the past year, when in reality, it was supposed to rather be targeted at the pre-2024 Lionsgate (now Starz Entertainment). That's where my grudge is. Also, what, 5 entries for the "Lionsgate" title in the larger "Lions Gate" DAB page? Seriously, the "Lionsgate" title needs its own DAB page. Intrisit (talk) 21:59, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
If we did this wrongly, you can let us know. But you don't need to double post this and make a big fuss over it. To be honest, fixing this dab has been a big mess, as it is difficult to decide whether to point to the successor company (Lionsgate Studios), the film studio (Lionsgate Films), or the "historical" brand that spun off Lionsgate (Starz Entertainment); and everyone is just doing their best at deciding the correct link to use. Natg 19 (talk) 23:03, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support, although Myceteae, this is way too soon after my errant nomination just over a month ago. Like I stated already, I was waiting at least 3 months later (around November) to make a new proper RfD nomination before this one. Intrisit (talk) 21:59, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    With two RMs and an RFD (closed as no prejudice to re-stating the request) in as less than 2 months, the topic is ripe for a more definitive consensus. That is also why I agree with you, and disagree with Nardog, that discussion is required for what would obviously have been a controversial change. The inherent ambiguity of "Lionsgate" and the number of articles involved obscure the history and I fear we will have endless "Lionsgate" RMs at a half-dozen different pages until this points somewhere more definitive than Lions Gate. --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 22:13, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
How is your draft dab page better than just pointing at Lions Gate? It is still just a disambiguation page. I would agree with SilviaASH and Skynxnex to point to one of the articles (Lionsgate Films or Lionsgate Studios), but it seems like there is no clear target that is the PT. Natg 19 (talk) 22:55, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Lionsgate is a specific search term that's narrower than Lions Gate but does not have a single, unique referent. The various Lionsgates are quite popular and are collectively the most common destinations from the current Lions Gate DAB as shown by Pageviews,[5][6] WikiNav,[7] and Massiews.[8] Lionsgate doesn't have a primary topic, as demonstrated by the big mess of multiple move and redirect discussions. If it did have a PT, Lionsgate would be a good candidate for an article title per WP:SMALLDIFFERENCES. Giving it a unique DAB page (or WP:Set index article, even) might answer the recurring question "Why don't we have a page called Lionsgate?" and stop the RMs for a while or at least centralize the discussion and history moving forward, and also save readers a little time. Thus, I see it as a service to both readers and editors. Ultimately, while I think a unique DAB has merit, I'm more invested in trying to settle this and consolidate the discussion than I am in this particular outcome. A firm decision to retain the status quo or point to Lions Gate#Entertainment instead (for now) is fine. --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 04:04, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Weak keep as is, I think. Not totally opposed to refining to include #Entertainment, but there is a slight problem with this. Additional entries that omit the space are found outside the Entertainment section. Namely Lionsgate Newark Studios under Lions Gate#Places and Liongate Capital Management and Lionsgate Academy under Lions Gate#Other uses. These sections are both underneath #Entertainment, so in theory, you could still locate them with relative ease, but including a section as the target would imply one could find everything in that section. I suppose a separate "Lionsgate" dab might resolve this, but it just seems unnecessary. -2pou (talk) 00:35, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    True, but that's also the case for Star TV and Star Channel (I spun out the entries of the former bearing the latter's name with that of the latter); which Jay aptly put it as the only benefit being to to avoid the unrelated clutter in the Lions Gate dab. Look at it this way; should the "Lionsgate" title end up being DABbed or configured/refactored as an SIA, the "Lionsgate Academy" and "Lionsgate Newark Studios" article titles could be incubated in it, regardless of whether they are related or unrelated to the entertainment-related "Lionsgate" titles should they be listed there alongside it. The Liongate Capital Management article you cited even has the "Liongate" title redirect to it since 2 November 2008 with little to no controversy up until now and can be or has already been incubated in the "Lions Gate" DAB page. My initial errant RfD nomination was premised on this rationale and aiming for either DABbing or setindexifying the Lionsgate title, because InfiniteNexus's RM and Diana0134's RM to get "Lionsgate Studios" and "Lionsgate Films" titles respectively to take that title really deserves an RfD outcome, whether this one or the next. Of course I can understand the sentiments here here to just refactor this title to "Lions Gate#Entertainment" and this isn't the first and most definitely won't be the last title to go through such a conundrum, but with the aforementioned similar instance of "Star TV" and "Star Channel", it's to eliminate confusion and as Jay cited again unrelated clutter. To re-iterate one of Myceteae's comments, I fear we will have endless "Lionsgate" RMs [and RfDs] at a half-dozen different pages until this points somewhere more definitive than "Lions Gate". I feel for this as well!! Intrisit (talk) 15:25, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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may from the pokeymans

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since the list of pokémon anime characters' afd discussion was closed as redirect, something should probably be done regarding those redirects. may is one of the main characters and ash's resident female companion in the seasons of the anime that take place in hoenn (advanced, advanced challenge, advanced battle, battle frontier), where she's mentioned... but she's only actually there because she's the objectively better playable character in the hoenn games (ruby and sapphire, and then their sister game and remakes), so what should be done? consarn (grave) (obituary) 16:24, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

incidentally, three notes:
  • the second redirect has history, but as is customary for those pokémon character redirects, it was just fancruft. not worth worrying about
  • i'll boldly use the results of this rfd for the other female protags shamelessly reused in the anime who don't have their own articles (dawn, uh... oh wow, it's just dawn)
  • i want smelly socks mailed to whoever came up with the hoenn seasons' english titles for the sheer amount of people who ended up believing that "gba" stands for "game boy advanced"
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"haruka" is just her japanese name, so there's no need to worry over it consarn (grave) (obituary) 14:34, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yup, Haruka refers to the same character(s) that May (Pokémon) et al are referring to-- brunette girl wearing a red shirt, white miniskirt, and red bandanna who's either the daughter of Gym Leader Norman or Professor Birch. Thus, it suffers from the same WP:XY issues that all the rest suffer from, and needs disambiguation at the same place we're putting the rest. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 17:20, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thinking aloud here, it seems like consensus is heading towards disambiguating it (which per WP:INCOMPDAB would kick it over to May (disambiguation) which in turn would send it to May (given name)#Fictional characters because the name has been split off). Haruka (Pokémon) makes sense targeting eg Pokémon (TV series)#Characters where the Japanese name is included. But does it make sense in a disambiguation-type entry? If so, should her Japanese name be included? -- Tavix (talk) 20:58, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'd say yes; anyone looking for information on the character Haruka should be taken to May (given name)#Fictional characters. As for including the name Haruka there, it should be fairly simple to write it in a way that smoothly includes the Japanese name, yes. Working off of the disambig Thepharoah17 drafted (but admittedly putting it in my own words), here's an example:
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May (Haruka in Japanese); the given name of:
-- 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 00:33, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Viacom International Media Networks (Africa)

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Listed this for discussion as I see no use at time in retaining this title! Still worth it? Intrisit (talk) 22:03, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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2026 Indianapolis 500

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not mentioned at target. WP:RFD#DELETE #10 Yoblyblob (Talk) :) 20:15, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

2026 Daytona 500

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Not mentioned at target. WP:RFD#DELETE #10 Yoblyblob (Talk) :) 19:46, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Computer audio

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I'm not sure this redirect is as helpful as the previous list of articles [9]. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 19:06, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment. My gut says this should be an article. Both of the previous dab entries were bad: "Computer music" is about something more specific. "Sound card" is about a piece of hardware that computers use to emit an audio signal, but there's far more to computer audio on the software side. The new target, "Digital audio", is also bad. It's more about the low-level signal aspect of how digital audio is represented and processed, etc. Maybe a case of WP:RETURNTORED? 35.139.154.158 (talk) 19:53, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak restore. I agree with the nom that the dab page was better than the redirect, it was helpful for readers even though it wasn't a good dab page according to the rigid style rules for such pages - it's exactly the sort of page (plausible search term for multiple topics that aren't actually this) that the still-born navpages concept was intended to be, maybe calling it a set index would prevent future good-faith attempts to fix what isn't broken? I do agree with the IP that not everything was covered but expanding the page to include them (MIDI and speech synthesis maybe should be there too) is I think preferable to deletion. 01:15, 25 July 2025 (UTC)— Preceding unsigned comment added by Thryduulf (talkcontribs)
  • Restore as a better option than redirect. If there is disagreement, it can be taken to AfD. I'm not much for Computer music, but Digital audio should be added to the dab. Jay 💬 09:52, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Avunculus

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This soft-redirect to Wikitionary should be deleted to restore this to red-link condition. This is not a "DICDEF" subject, like "pleasant" or "obnoxious", or even "avuncular" for that matter; it's an extinct animal taxon, which makes it an encyclopedia subject that either needs an article or a redirect to a section at a higher taxon's article in which this lower taxon is covered in sufficient encyclopedic detail. Having a redirect to a dictionary definition stating it is an extinct taxon under some other, higher-level taxon (plus irrelevant information on avunculus in other languages) is pointless, since the articles from which this is a link generally already provide the same taxonomic-relationship information, and our reader here is looking for more detail not a repeat of the same detail. The editors working on filling in our red-link gaps in extinct taxa are not even going to know to work on this one, since here it appears as a blue-link because of the pointless cross-project redirect.  — SMcCandlish ¢ 😼  00:40, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@SMcCandlish: wikt:avunculus doesn't actually stat[e] it is an extinct taxon, or anything at all besides the Latin word for an uncle or great-uncle. jlwoodwa (talk) 00:08, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Blargh. I must've been looking at the wrong page/tab"s mention of the term and forgot which said what. Okay, so the cross-site redir is even more inappropriate to have than I thought it was and will be downright confusing to many readers.  — SMcCandlish ¢ 😼  00:30, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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2026 FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League

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WP:TOOSOON and the last edition of the tournament was just ended on August 3, 2025. 𝙳.𝟷𝟾𝚝𝚑 (𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚔) 13:07, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

2026 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League

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WP:TOOSOON and the last edition of the tournament was just ended on July 27, 2025. 𝙳.𝟷𝟾𝚝𝚑 (𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚔) 13:07, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Mario Party 12

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Mario Party 11 redirects to Super Mario Party, which was the eleventh Mario Party home console game. The twelfth Mario Party home console game was Mario Party Superstars, not Jamboree, so this redirect should probably point to Superstars. The redirect used to point to Superstars, but a different user changed it to Jamboree, saying that Superstars doesn't count as a mainline Mario Party game. Handheld Mario Party games are not considered mainline, but the fact that the Nintendo Switch is both a home and a handheld console makes it difficult to say whether Superstars is a mainline Mario Party. Mr slav999 (talk) 10:33, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Myspace code

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Implausible search term. Thunder491 (talk) 10:22, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Madhya Pradesh League

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Redirect with no mention at target page. Vestrian24Bio 09:03, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete whilst that article did previously list the event, its is correct to only list notable events there e.g. ones with articles. Thus, this event should not be listed at target article, and so redirect is not needed. Joseph2302 (talk) 07:54, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sher-E-Punjab T20 Cup

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Redirect with no mention at target page. Vestrian24Bio 09:02, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete whilst that article did previously list the event, its is correct to only list notable events there e.g. ones with articles. Thus, this event should not be listed at target article, and so redirect is not needed. Joseph2302 (talk) 07:55, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Elizabeth of the United Kingdom

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I have seen several times that this redirect was being retargeted to Elizabeth of Great Britain and this page. So I think we should have a discussion on which page should this redirect target at A1Cafel (talk) 08:50, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Republic of China era

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Most commonly refers Republic of China (1912–1949) (in the context of Chinese history) and History of Taiwan (1945–present) (in the context of Taiwanese history). Haven't seen this exact wording refer to the calendar. - CHAMPION (talk) (contributions) (logs) 03:22, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Professeur

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Nominating per WP:FORRED, teachers are not exclusively French. ArthananWarcraft (talk) 08:26, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Florida Cocktail

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Rather vague. — Godsy (TALKCONT) 08:26, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Badi al-Din Rashidi

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Apparently, there is a person called Badi al-Din Rashidi (see e.g. simple:Allamah Sayyid Badiuddin Shah Rashdi; 'Rashidi' and 'Rashdi' are equivalent transliterations of the same name), but en.wiki has no article on him. The current target Badi' al-Din is not called Rashidi/Rashdi as far as I can see. ☿ Apaugasma (talk ) 08:23, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Special K (alcohol)

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Seemingly no good local targets. Poor disambiguators. — Godsy (TALKCONT) 08:13, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"Elisabeth II"

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The quotation marks make this redirect WP:UNNATURAL and it's also misspelled. ArthananWarcraft (talk) 08:10, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Spasibo

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WP:FORRED as transliteration of the Russian 'Спасибо' to mean 'thank you'. There is an article at thank you, but that only concerns the English term. Fork99 (talk) 07:55, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. 𝔅𝔦𝔰-𝔖𝔢𝔯𝔧𝔢𝔱𝔞? 12:30, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Kremlin Colonel

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Does not seem to be covered anywhere. — Godsy (TALKCONT) 07:05, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Cocteleria

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No seeming affinity of the subject to this language over any other — Godsy (TALKCONT) 05:56, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Mixed cocktail

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Mixed drink or cocktail? — Godsy (TALKCONT) 05:26, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep both. The Mixed drink article covers a lot of non-alcoholic non-cocktails, so is not really a suitable target. Cocktail covers the topics well. BugGhost 🦗👻 08:14, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Football World Cup -

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I don't see the purpose of "-" behind the title A1Cafel (talk) 03:39, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DJVI

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Not mentioned at target. Unrelated uses exist at German trawler V 206 Otto Bröhan for a ship callsign and at DjVu for an element of the file format. 1234qwer1234qwer4 01:08, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Time for a history dive! The section that contained references to DJ-Nate and DJVI is NOT the Music section that currently exists; these redirects were created to reference a Music section that was deleted in July of 2023 for being completely uncited. The current Music section was added in April of this year, and as noted does not contain reference to either artist.
Prior to all of that, though, the DJVI redirect had two stints of being an attempt at an article; the first time was a short unformatted paragraph, the second time was as a fully formatted article. Unfortunately, neither had sources and they were then reverted back to the redirect-- the latter fully-formatted but unsourced version after a mere 30 minutes. If you guys wanna restore this version, go right ahead. (No prejudice to sending it directly to AfD, of course.) 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 03:09, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Huh. I went to notify the users who made the DJVI article and who reverted it respectively; the latter is a WP:dead Wikipedian and the former is... someone who doesn't have a user page or talk page (somehow???) and whose only footprint on Wikipedia at all ever-- no block, no other edits, nothing-- was making this article that got reverted by someone else within 30 minutes. What. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 06:39, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Lunamann, do you prefer restoring or just don't oppose, I'm confused by your wording here. Rusalkii (talk) 19:59, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I would prefer to restore the article, sorry I didn't make that clear. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 21:30, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete as related content was reverted. The BLARd unsourced (except for social media handles) bio needn't be kept. If user Iemand990 requests the content back later, an admin can provide it. Although the term is unambiguous on enwiki for the German trawler, I don't think it is useful as a redirect. Jay 💬 08:03, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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2026 NASCAR Cup Series

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Page can probably be made soon but WP:RFD#DELETE 10, not mentioned at target Yoblyblob (Talk) :) 20:42, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Just realized this was nominated before, closed as delete last year. Would it be eligible for speedy? Yoblyblob (Talk) :) 20:42, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
it sounded very TOOSOON to me, and sure enough, when i looked at the page history, it was draftified for that Oreocooke (talk) 21:52, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Trevor J. Bredenkamp

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Respectfully opening a deletion discussion on this redirect. For a time, Major General Bredenkamp commanded the unit which the target article refers to, but that is no longer the case; he relinquished command on July 21, 2025. As MG Bredenkamp is not personally or notably identified with this unit beyond ordinary personnel assignments, the redirect could prove confusing for others. He has since assumed command of the U.S. Army War College. SuperWIKI (talk) 16:11, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete per nom, and per criterion 10 - "the redirect could plausibly be expanded into an article, and the target article contains virtually no information on the subject." There are already several redlinked officers on the current target page, including the current office-holder; this treatment is also appropriate for Bredenkamp. Tevildo (talk) 15:41, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DWMY

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No longer mentioned of "DWMY" at target after being subject BLARed in 2024. Delete to encourage article creation per WP:REDYES. 49.151.187.185 (talk) 09:45, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Somno

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"Somno" is unmentioned at this target. "somno-" appears to be a prefix meaning "sleep", but when someone says "somno" and only "somno" (without a -), you're no longer dealing with a prefix User:Someone-123-321 (I contribute, Talk page so SineBot will shut up) 08:48, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Soul of Asia

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Ambiguous, soul of Asia varies in different people/country A1Cafel (talk) 03:56, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Issues of Toronto

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There were lots of issues in Toronto including environemnt, should not be a redirect towards the mainpage A1Cafel (talk) 03:25, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Resident Evil (2020 film)

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As per the move log, it is a typo. There were no films released that year. (CC) Tbhotch 03:13, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Gulf of america

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Previous RfDs for this redirect and similar redirects:

Per an RfD back in January this redirects to Gulf of Mexico#Name, however since then a new article has been created, Gulf of Mexico naming controversy, which would be a much more appropriate target for these redirects. Sangjiinhwa (talk) 03:00, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Implausible foreign language redirect WP:PLA one typing in a Korean title is probably not looking for information on 한글 which already redirects to Hangul. Aasim (話すはなす) 00:49, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

EDP445

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This is a living person who was accused of a crime by a group of amateur youtubers in 2021. He was never arrested or charged [13], which makes me think that his page redirecting to this page is inappropriate. This page was deleted twice due to the incident being rather irrelevant, and even in this article this person is only mentioned in one sentence, but it keeps being recreated. It should be deleted again. V. S. Video (talk) 23:53, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Bubble Bobble 2

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Hopelessly ambiguous name (there are three games called Bubble Bobble 2); it is unclear why Symphony should be the primary topic. Bubble Bobble 2 (disambiguation) should be moved to Bubble Bobble 2 instead. — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (Goodbye!) 22:04, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Bathgate (New) railway station

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Implausible search term. Neither "New Bathgate railway station" or "Bathgate railway station (new)" are redirects either. JacobTheRox(talk | contributions) 21:38, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Audenshaw Junction rail accident

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Not mentioned in target. Article failed AfD so I think it is best to retarget to List of rail accidents in the United Kingdom (and have it snap to that table entry). JacobTheRox(talk | contributions) 21:28, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Education policy of the Donald Trump administration

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Goes to a nonexistent section in First presidency of Donald Trump and ignores Education policy of the second Donald Trump administration. I'm not sure exactly how best to handle it, but the status quo definitely ain't it. Sdkbtalk 20:26, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I misread the redirect, delete and create the redirect Education policy of the first Donald Trump administration pointing to Domestic policy of the first Donald Trump administration#Education to mirror the other article name. Synpath 01:17, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Move redirect history to Education policy of the first Donald Trump administration. Sangjiinhwa (talk) 02:44, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Natural representation

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A great many mathematical objects have a "natural representation"; five seconds on Google suggests that the term is more common in the field of representation theory than it is in the context of differentiable curves. Indeed the target article does not use the vague phrase "natural representation", prefering instead the more informative language "natural parametrization". JBL (talk) 18:15, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete. A significant fraction of the hits for this phrase within Wikipedia are about realism in the visual arts and related meanings in theatre and literature rather than having anything to do with mathematics. And I agree that in the mathematics literature the more common meaning involves group representations. The intended meaning of this redirect appears to be natural parameterization and that is a better phrase to use for this meaning than representation, is currently a redlink, and itself is ambiguous (the same phrase is used with two other meanings in parameterized complexity and exponential family). I'm not convinced any of these meanings are specifically defined enough to make a disambiguation page out of "natural representation". "Natural parameter" probably should have a dab, with a redirect from "Natural parameterization", but that's a separate issue from this discussion. —David Eppstein (talk) 22:13, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Retarget to Natural parameter (disambiguation). Sangjiinhwa (talk) 02:46, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    That doesn't and shouldn't include the primary mathematical meaning of the phrase "natural representation" in representation theory, nor the meanings of this phrase in the arts, because representations and parameters are not generally words for the same thing. Among the meanings listed at that target, I think only the parameterization of curves can be called a parametric representation. —David Eppstein (talk) 03:57, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I agree with David Eppstein that this proposed target is not really better; it suffers from the same problem that a person searching for "natural representation" is probably not looking for anything to do with parametrization of curves, and Natural parameter (disambiguation) is not a helpful target for such a person. --JBL (talk) 22:46, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per David Eppstein. In addition to the above comments, it also seems to be used for at least two distinct concepts in the context of political representation. Thryduulf (talk) 12:48, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tomasulo

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Split or bespoke decisions Closed discussion, see full discussion. Result was: surname index

That's What Makes the Jukebox Play

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Ambiguous as there is also an older song originally recorded by Jimmy Work, and also recorded by Moe Bandy, and Anita Carter. Not appropriate for a disambiguation per WP:SONGDAB as neither song has an article of its own. - CHAMPION (talk) (contributions) (logs) 13:15, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Champion: I don't see how SONGDAB applies here. The closest part I can find is about primary topics for partially-disambiguated titles, not the decision of whether to create a disambiguation page. Could you elaborate, please? jlwoodwa (talk) 00:14, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
But even then, where should it be retargeted when the song itself doesn't have an article? - CHAMPION (talk) (contributions) (logs) 00:50, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This redirect could be turned into a disambiguation page. jlwoodwa (talk) 00:54, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Oozora Subaru

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A procedural nomination on behalf of User:Beansy who blanked the redirect. Here's their rationale, copied from Talk:Oozora Subaru: I'm sorry but the redirects on the Hololive talent pages have been ridiculous for several years now. Subaru was the seventh most viewed vtuber of 2024 per https://note.com/vstats/n/n602111052618, and the #5 most watched female streamer of any kind per https://streamscharts.com/news/top-female-streamers-2024, and she's a 5 year veteran now. The original reason for sealing off most of the Hololive pages was because the industry was too new, and that no longer carries weight. I'm removing the redirect so someone can make her Wikipedia page without being obstructed. Warudo (talk) 10:09, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per WP:RETURNTORED. I am also of the opinion that most Holomems should have articles at this point. Warudo (talk) 10:12, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, I would honestly remove all of the Hololive redirects at this point. I think you could probably make a notability case for anyone on the whole Hololive roster. Possibly the Holostars roster as well, but I'll let someone else make a case for that. If they're getting regular promotional deals with things like McDonald's, if the have half of the world's top ten most watched female streamers annually, if even HoloEN, one of the secondary branches, managed to sell out Radio City Music Hall in NYC in minutes, if they have the largest marketshare by watched hours of a multibillion dollar industry and are publicly listed on the Nikkei with a market valuation of close to $1 billion, if their YouTube pages have combined page views in the tens of billions (Houshou Marine alone has well over 1 billion page views), I think they meet notability criteria as a whole. Even their talent debuts, which are kind of rare these days, tend to be really big deals within the vtuber space. I mean off-the-cuff I think you could set a notability threshold of needing 250,000 or 500,000 followers or something first, but it's still long outdated that the redirects are even still there in my opinion. Beansy (talk) 10:27, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nominator and above 👑 KingBegger · 💬 · ⚔️ 03:54, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong Keep. Having a redirect does not stop someone from making a Wikipedia page. The redirect can be turned into an article at any time, or it can be developed in draftspace and moved when ready. In this case, we have a deliberate mention at the target article with encyclopedic information & context. WP:RETURNTORED only applies if the target contains no information, but there is plenty of context at the target. Someone searching for Oozura Subaru will see at the target article that: 1) She is a VTuber, 2) She is associated with the Hololive agency, 3) She is one of three members of the company's second generation, and 4) She has an entry on jpwiki that is hyperlinked right next to her name for more context. Whether or not she receives an article on enwiki in the future, the redirect is absolutely helpful in communicating all of the relevant information for the search term, and then even more with the jpwiki link right beside her list entry. Utopes (talk / cont) 00:20, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Changing my !vote to Neutral per Utopes because I did misapply WP:RETURNTORED in my original. My stance on her notability has not changed. Warudo (talk) 10:14, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Keep per Utopes' rationale. A redirect does not prevent users from making an article on the subject. Until an article is made, the redirects should not be removed otherwise the subject would not be able to direct users to the relevant subject matter. If you wish to make an article on the subject, you can create one on a draft page or a dedicated user page and then either ask to have the page moved to the redirect or just copy the contents to redirect. CaptainGalaxy 16:03, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
If an article about Subaru does come around, I think it would be a good gesture to copy material onto the redirect, which was created by Vami in 2020. Highly optional, but it would be nice to keep him as the page creator on this one. Utopes (talk / cont) 03:13, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Lodestone Games

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No longer mentioned at target after redirect AfD closure. Delete per WP:RDELETE condition 10. 49.151.187.185 (talk) 01:26, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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London railway station (disambiguation)

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"London railway station" (without the "(disambiguation)" ) is already a redirect. Therefore, this search term is impossible but the redirect is also not useful. JacobTheRox(talk | contributions) 10:38, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

British Rail Classes 253, 254 and 255

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Unlikely search term. Each individual class redirects to Intercity 125 per convention but this seems silly. JacobTheRox(talk | contributions) 10:32, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Kirstie Wong

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This was speedy deleted as an implausible redirect (not even mentioned in target), but thanks to objecting admin User:Sdrqaz who restored it, we now have to spend community time discussing this one. So, not mentioned at target, and even if she was it would be a bad redirect, as she wouldn't remain included there (team members change over time), it is reductionist (her career is more than being a member of the team), and it would be better as a redlink until someone creates an article for her. See e.g. this about her individual performances, her world ranking, all unrelated to the national team. Fram (talk) 09:52, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

CrossCountry network

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I suggest we retarget this to Cross Country Route. 'CrossCountry network' is a plausible alternative name for the route on which crosscountry services operate, but not the franchise itself. JacobTheRox(talk | contributions) 09:43, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support the route and network are the same thing. CrossCountry is the company that operates services on the route/network. TBH I'm surprised something so obvious needs discussion. I'd say WP:BOLD just do it. 10mmsocket (talk) 12:04, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

War of the Worlds: Revival

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Split or bespoke decisions Closed discussion, see full discussion. Result was: Procudural close in favour of and without prejudice to the ongoing move discussion

Template:Birth-date

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

M Alcolm X

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Delete Closed discussion, see full discussion. Result was: delete

Zach Hanson

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There is no mention of this person on the target article so it's not clear what the association is here. Liz Read! Talk! 22:10, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Liz: heya... "creator" here... I made it as a quick followup for Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zach Hanson; the person by the name is apparently real (they received a Grammy for an album by the target group), but their article was created as a hoax otherwise. I'll happily delete the redirect if it doesn't make sense, though. I actually have no idea how Grammies work in instances like that. For example, they might have just been part of the production staff or something but are still included in the overall award(?). I dunno. *shrug* Hope that helps give context. Lemme know if you want anything from me, and any other admin (including you) is free to take action as if I were taking it myself (including just speedily deleting it outright). Cheers =) --slakrtalk / 00:00, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That Goomba looks so serene

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HODL

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Now that all the mentions of this are gone from the target (although I don't know if they've ever been there?), how about redirect to wiktionary? Stumbling9655 (talk) 07:41, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Retarget Hodl to Hödl as per Shhhnotsoloud, tag as R to diacritic. It's plausible that someone could type in Hodl while meaning for Hödl; not everyone has access to the keys that would allow someone to type an ö character. On the flipside, Delete HODL as per WP:RETURNTORED. Vgbyp may be right in that there's enough info to make a full article for this topic; in that case, we need to delete the redirect, so that someone in the future will be alerted that we don't have information on the topic, rather than pipe it to Wiktionary. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 00:10, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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1st pyramid

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Relisted, see Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 August 7#1st pyramid

Sudan at the 2025 Islamic Solidarity Games

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Rectagon

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Retarget Closed discussion, see full discussion. Result was: retarget

HAiR

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Retarget Closed discussion, see full discussion. Result was: retarget

Arbaclofen

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Relisted, see Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 August 7#Arbaclofen

South-West Europe

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Delete. There was a previous article on this topic, which was deleted—see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Southwestern Europe. That discussion showed there was no consensus on the most appropriate target for this topic. Currently, some terms redirect to Iberian Peninsula, others to Regions of Europe, and there are also valid arguments for redirecting to Southern Europe. Given this lack of clarity, I believe it is better to let readers rely on search engine results instead. Hassan697 (talk) 12:57, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Fresh Food People

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King of YouTube

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Delete Closed discussion, see full discussion. Result was: delete

Hayran

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This redirect points to a village in Turkey, but I intend to create an article about the Kurdish vocal style "Hayran", which is a distinct and notable subject. The current redirect blocks article creation and is misleading for readers searching for the musical style. Per WP:RFD#DELETE.  Zemen  (talk) 11:16, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Spiritual book club

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FC Urziceni

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Cook Pu

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Delete Closed discussion, see full discussion. Result was: delete

Leo Chung

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Delete Closed discussion, see full discussion. Result was: delete

Ice cream truck song

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Retarget Closed discussion, see full discussion. Result was: retarget

Malcolm 10

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The "X" in Malcolm X's name is not a Roman numeral, he adopted this surname to symbolize his lost African family name, and it's pronounced like the letter "X" and not "ten". ArthananWarcraft (talk) 07:19, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tax cuts for the rich

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Previous RfDs for this redirect and similar redirects:

Non-neutral redirect that also happens to be a poor search term. Go D. Usopp (talk) 03:39, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Endia

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Neither an alternative spelling nor a likely misspelling but a derogatory slang ([14]). Gotitbro (talk) 01:57, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Trap-A-Holics

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Not mentioned in target. For context, Trap-A-Holics is a hip-hop producer may have arguable notability. Still, they go unmentioned from La Chat's article and would suffice as being deleted despite possible notability, as opposed to being a weird redirect. Roast (talk) 00:58, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment — furthering my research, Trap-A-Holics hosted some albums by La Chat. Still, their notability stretches beyond one person's discography. Roast (talk) 01:05, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Don't have much of an opinion here, except to say that being unmentioned in an article does NOT rule them out of a redirect. There is literally such a redirect known as "R to article without mention" which does suffice in numerous instances. Whether or not it does here, I can't say as I'm oblivious re: these topics. But I just wanted to, er, mention that. --Cinemaniac86TalkStalk 03:57, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Not a forum

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Duke Nukem 4ever

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while definitely a cute name (by which i mean the opposite >:c), the only official and/or noteworthy instance of this spelling that i can name is as an ending screen in zero hour, which predated and had nothing to do with forever

...is what i would say if there wasn't an actual game called "duke nukem 4ever" that was cancelled, as detailed in the main series' article. thus, i'm kind of torn between retargeting there, returning to red as i've found some results that suggest some level of notability (will show them in a while if i find them to be reliable), and just keeping because who really cares? consarn (grave) (obituary) 19:31, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

on second thought, i'll just add them here before evaluation, since i have other stuff to whittle down first. most of those likely aren't reliable at all, but whatever :3
and... that's kind of it? upon closer inspection, some of the ones i was about to add only had 4ever mentioned in the comments, so they're not gettin' here. i'll add more if i can find more, and note that this ars technica article is already being used consarn (grave) (obituary) 20:27, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Release of Duke Nukem Forever

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Relisted, see Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 August 6#Release of Duke Nukem Forever

Mao Tsé-Toung

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Relisted, see Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 August 6#Mao Tsé-Toung

Lénine

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Nominating per WP:FORRED, Lenin was not French. ArthananWarcraft (talk) 18:12, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

But it seems his name may have been used with a spelling like that? Perhaps without the accent? Search Musee Lenine. Hewer7 (talk) 19:16, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Exposing

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Relisted, see Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 August 6#Exposing

Pope Leo XVI

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Implausible Roman numeral. He is not the sixteenth, just the fourteenth. ArthananWarcraft (talk) 11:34, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Washington State agency redirects

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Relisted, see Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 August 6#Washington State agency redirects

The Pat McAfee Show 2.0

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Relisted, see Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 August 6#The Pat McAfee Show 2.0

Roger Alexander (politician)

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

Wikipedia:WikiProject UK Railways/Draft

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Has existed since 2007 as an ATD but this is an infeasible redirect and also an orphan except a discussion about it in the wikiproject archives. JacobTheRox(talk | contributions) 14:50, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hariharan Amsakarunan

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Delete. A whole lot of redirects have been created by User:OCDD from individual badminton and squash players to the national team articles. But these players have done most of their career outside the national team, just as individual players in tournaments. I don't see the use of having a redirect from a person to just one aspect of their lives or careers.

Similar redirects include:

Other redirects by the same editor may warrant checking as well. Fram (talk) 14:21, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The players have represented their national teams at each tournament. Most of their career has not been "outside the national team." OCDD (talk) 08:15, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
When Amsakarunan played at e.g. the 2024 Swiss Open (badminton) or the 2024 Odisha Masters, he wasn't playing for the national team, he was playing in individually (well, doubles, but as a person, not as part of the national team). Rumesh Tharanga has played at many tournaments, not just the Neeraj Chopra Classic (he even won silver at the 2025 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's javelin throw); redirecting a person to a team or tournament is almost always a bad idea. Furthermore, when the player is no longer part of the national team, they will be removed from the target page, leaving us with a redirect without any info at all at the target. Fram (talk) 08:33, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Rishika Nag

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Delete. I don't think it is a good idea to redirect a person to just one of the roles they played indiscriminately. Article has no further info on the actress, who is also mentioned in other articles[17]. Better as a redlink until an article can be created (assuming they are notable). Fram (talk) 14:06, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The same applies to similar redirects to the same article:
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Islamic infidelity

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Respectfully, I would have rejected this AFC/R, and have shared my concerns with the accepter. The redirect just doesn't make sense, and is one of several prejudicial redirects requested recently by the same IP. Two sources were presented in support, but both were about alleged abuses of Nikah mut'ah, which do not necessarily entail infidelity. Nor is there a clear link between infidelity and polygyny. If retargeted, Kafir is probably the best place (I'm surprised there's no Infidel (Islam)). But I would just delete this as too out-there. --BDD (talk) 14:06, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy delete. this redirect made me hesitant to add, and I should not have accepted it. Juwan (talk) 14:28, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Bettina Anderson

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Totalitarianism in the United States

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This redirect does not seem appropriate to me as it is potentially misleading. To my understanding, fascism and totalitarianism are not the same thing, as totalitarianism is a broader system of governance which can take many forms (not necessarily fascist). To imply all totalitarianism in the U.S. must be fascist, seems to unintentionally push a point of view. Golem08 (talk) 17:20, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Dallas Cowgirls

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Disputed redirect between Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. Every couple of months had edit warring over target. Either retarget to the Cheerleaders or delete altogether since it feels like an unfunny vandalism nickname for the NFL team. Servite et contribuere (talk) 18:20, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Delete Retarget Not mentioned on either page and it's not as easy to find an RS as I was expecting. If a mention is added (possibly the Esquire source mentioned by Myceteaea) it could should be retargetted to Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. While {{R from non-neutral name}} exists, I don't think this is a good use for it as it's both non-neutral and ambiguous. I also would argue it doesn't really meet any of the criteria for creation of non-neutral at WP:RNEUTRAL as this was never the page name for the Cowboys, it wasn't a POV fork, and while people call them the Cowgirls, it's not incredibly common in media sources (e.g. there aren't articles form ESPN calling them the Dallas Cowgirls). In summary, delete without mention, but retarget if mentioned with to cheerleaders, not a good candidate for keeping per WP:RNEUTRAL. Casablanca 🪨(T) 20:08, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I am surprised you didn't find it east to find an RS referring to the cheerleaders as the "Dallas Cowgirls". Did you look in newspapers.com? I found lots of RSes there. Rlendog (talk) 14:33, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I need to be better about remembering to search in newspaper archives instead of just google/DDG. You found some great sources. Switching over to RT per your sources. Casablanca 🪨(T) 17:06, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Just to let UCO2009bluejay understand, my proposal is not deletion, it is anything but the current redirect. Just in case you were unaware. Servite et contribuere (talk) 08:43, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I will stand by my delete. I am no Cowboys fan but could be considered derogatory to refer to them as such. Redirecting them to the cheerleaders seems out of place.- UCO2009bluejay (talk) 23:03, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In–transit mixer

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Inverted C

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This refers to some letter. The sound at the target is denoted by the Open O in the IPA; however, Claudian letters#Antisigma (Ↄ) might be closer since it is actually based on the letter C (though Unicode calls it "reversed" rather than "inverted", which is reflected in the font rendering in the article showing a reflected rather than rotated letter). 1234qwer1234qwer4 01:17, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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MOS:MILRANK

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There is no consensus per discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Biography#Military ranks. Absolutiva 00:46, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Military ranks are not honorific prefixes. Nford24 (PE121 Personnel Request Form) 02:17, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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2025 Zip Buy Now, Pay Later 250

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I think the redirect is to be deleted as the race was renamed to the target and the redirect is currently being unused. MysticCipher87(alt-account) (talk) 22:34, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Delete per nom. Zip sponsored the race in 2024, that Pit Boss/FoodMaxx did in 2025. It is incorrect to confuse sponsorships or give credit to an earlier sponsor. Moreover, this could be confusing with 2025 Zip Buy Now, Pay Later 200 (last number slightly different) which redirects to a Virginia race. Readers who rely on the sponsor name anyway have the yearless Zip Buy Now, Pay Later 250 from where they can navigate to the series and choose the interested year. Jay 💬 02:59, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Jim Jenkins

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Iacovos Hadjiconstantinou

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Metroid 5

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Metroid IV

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Bertha the Buck-Toothed Lady

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Panzerschokolade

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Nominating on behalf of N2e, the target makes no mention of the redirect. Looks to have been an urban legend that the chocolate contained methamphetamines, looking at this blog(?) post from The Skeptic. Bobby Cohn 🍁 (talk) 17:30, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment from original creator of redirect: I can't even remember creating this! I'm guessing that I read something about it 13 years ago, and looked it up, and created the redirect as it didn't exist. I can't remember what source I had for the information, although I note that in 2013, Spiegel International mentioned it in their article "The German Granddaddy of Crystal Meth" (Fabienne Hurst (30 May 2013). "The German Granddaddy of Crystal Meth". Spiegel International. Retrieved 23 July 2025.). If there is no evidence that this is anything other than an urban legend, I would be happy for it to be deleted. Alternatively, perhaps a mention of the urban legend could be included in the target article? PhantomSteve/talk¦contribs\ 11:42, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Cold Kiwi Motorcycle Rally

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I don't think it makes much sense to redirect Cold Kiwi Motorcycle Rally to the page for a geological feature when the rally itself has nothing to do with that feature apart from the location. I would further note that the redirect itself points a section of the Volcanic Plateau article that does not exist; the rally is discussed in a single paragraph in that article (and one sentence in the Horopito, New Zealand article).

If this must be kept as a redirect then I believe it should be retargetted to Horopito, New Zealand, the specific locality where it takes place. I would also have no objections to just removing this redirect.

What does the community think? :D Groot42 (talk) 21:13, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I just noticed that the claim that the Rally continues to be held in Horopito is false; the 2025 one is apparently being held in Waiouru and regardless the source only says that the 2014 one was in Horopito. I edited that page accordingly.
I still think there needs to be a better target than a non-existent section of a page about an area which the page itself says is over 100 km wide. Groot42 (talk) 21:24, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

information Note: I've notified the target of this RFD. Thepharoah17 (talk) 21:20, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The page had a section target until February this year. I have replaced it with an anchor. ☆ Bri (talk) 21:45, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Keep as Bri's created anchor name is the same as the deleted section title. Note that the paragraph was in a section titled "Popular culture", which was wrong per WP:POPCULTURE, and I renamed it to "Adventure and tourism". Jay 💬 07:46, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:RESULT

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Too ambiguous; same reason MOS:RESULT was deleted   Jalapeño   (u t g) 09:50, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Clicky-clack keyboard

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Interstate 38

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Surprise attack

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T:UAA

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Previous RfDs for this redirect and similar redirects:

Per a recent discussion at the village pump, it was indicated that new titles using the "T:" pseudo-namespace redirect should not be created (as of 2025).

Very unused redirect to the Usernames for Administrator Attention template, Template:UAA. It can be reached by typing in TM:UAA, without needing a replica page existing in mainspace with an unideal cross-namespace redirect. No valuable incoming links. Utopes (talk / cont) 18:34, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep: Even with the village pump discussion, this redirect is very old, as it dates back to 2008. I don't see why this wouldn't be useful. It is unambiguous, with no confusion on what this is. Justjourney (talk | contribs) 18:44, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    This is a redirect to a backrooms-template that exists in mainspace as a cross namespace redirect, which is unideal. We should keep such XNRs to a minimum, as to not inhibit regular searches by regular readers. "T:" is a regular search, because we have several mainspace targets that start with a T and a colon. When someone types it in, they expect to reach a Wikipedia article, and will be confused when they are taken to the backrooms. XNRs are largely unknown to 99% of our readers. There is no need for us to maintain an obscure/outdated/unused shortcut, nestled amongst regular Wikipedia pages, to a janitorial template, when this can all be avoided by typing in TM:UAA to reach the alias for templatespace, saving the need for us to nestle in a shortcut amongst regular pages. Utopes (talk / cont) 20:23, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. Useful shortcuts like this are "grandfathered in". P.I. Ellsworth , ed. – welcome! – 10:51, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    This shortcut isn't useful; the only links this has are to deletion discussions. These are handpicked because of how non-useful they are. There is no "grandfather clause" for mainspace-dwelling titles. If a shortcut is desired, TM:UAA is sufficient, recommended, and uses an expectable prefix that works for every template in existence. Utopes (talk / cont) 00:42, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

T:R from

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Per a recent discussion at the village pump, it was indicated that new titles using the "T:" pseudo-namespace redirect should not be created (as of 2025).

It has been argued in previous discussions that the purpose of such a redirect is to make it easy to navigate to Template:R from. Since the advent of the TM: alias, TM:R from is a short, suitable way to navigate to this template, by using an alias that works for all templates. Utopes (talk / cont) 18:11, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep. This redirect is actively used, including by me. I see no benefit in breaking things that are unambiguous and in use just because other things also exist. Thryduulf (talk) 16:53, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Why not use TM:R from instead? We have the ability to remove backroom trapdoors here, so that when people type in "T:" into the search bar to click on an article, they will see only the articles that start with T:, instead of a (dwindling) number of T: XNRs that are no longer being supported due to [[TM:]] being a surefire solution for all templates. T:R from only has one link on your user talk space, from User:DePiep back in 2013 explaining why it should be deleted 12 years ago. 12 years ago, we didn't have a [[TM:]] solution, but now we do. If the benefit is from searching it instead of linking it, adding an "m" is not hard, and consensus determined that it was a suitable prefix when it was implemented as an alias well over a year ago. Utopes (talk / cont) 18:33, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. Agree with editor Thryduulf on all counts. Useful shortcuts like this are "grandfathered in". P.I. Ellsworth , ed. – welcome! – 10:47, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tiste Liosan

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Deaths from the 2019–21 coronavirus outbreak

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Death due to COVID-19

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Help:IPA for Hokkien

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Indian locomotive class WAG-00

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Auftakt für Brighton

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UK Rampage

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Pakistan.

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India.

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Electric superior

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Brock's two favorite women

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Not mentioned in target or anywhere onwiki. Thepharoah17 (talk) 10:23, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Couldn't these two characters be mentioned in the characters section of Pokémon (TV series) as they are reoccurring? (Oinkers42) (talk) 14:10, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Heavy rainfall warning

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A Demon's Game - Episode 1

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All who served the revolution have plowed the sea

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Find The Computer Room!

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America is ungovernable

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List of misquotations

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National Highway 59 (India), old numbering)

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You just got Luigi'd

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Where's That Damn Fourth Chaos Emerald?

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List of Lviv rabbis

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For publicists publicizing the client's work

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Thuringia portal

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Northern Mariana Islands national under-23 football team

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Fourmula 50

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Day of Death

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The General Public

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Nien

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The member is not that popular and she wouldnt be the primary topic for Nien. Theres also no dab page for Nien. drinks or coffee ~ 17:05, 20 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Delete. Nien appears to be part of the given name for the TripleS singer. Several sources give her birth name as Hsu Nien Tzu (variously transliterated) [41][42] The "Nien" character in her given name is (Niàn), which is not the same character, (Nián), used at Nian (surname) and Nian. It's true that "Nien" is an alternative transliteration of 年 but it refers to a completely different name in this case. There may eventually need to be a Nian/Nien page for the non-年 usage but in the meantime red links and search function will better serve readers. --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 15:12, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Retarget to Nian per Voorts. -- Tavix (talk) 14:24, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Bo J

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Luring

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Communism in Cuba

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Updating effectively. 169.255.57.58 (talk) 19:37, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No we shouldn't, "Communism in Cuba" is not ambiguous. -- Tavix (talk) 17:51, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Lunamann is right in that fixing a section title shouldn't require an RfD. In fact, the nom (now proxy blocked for 2 years) had done just that - fixed the link broken from 2024. However ClueBot reverted this as vandalism (I have just reported it as a false positive). Nom fixed it again, but S0091 reverted it with no explanation and asked nom to come to RfD, which probably explains the cryptic nomination statement. Restore the nom's edit. Oppose unrefining to the general Cuba article that has 12 sections, and looking at the #Government_and_politics title and sub-section titles, I wouldn't think that it would have content about communism. Jay 💬 04:28, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Responding to Looking at #Government_and_politics title and sub-section titles, I wouldn't think that it would have content about communism: I can confirm that section has content about communism. -- Tavix (talk) 15:42, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It does. That's not the point. As a reader, I usually look at section and sub-section titles than do a Ctrl-F. I do a Ctrl-F when I'm looking for something very specific and I know there is no section on it. Jay 💬 07:50, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

John Derrick Goze

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Disney International Operations

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Ajyal - Arab Division of HaShomer HaTzair

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Ștefan Szönyi

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Los jibbities

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Dinowars

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Buildings Department (Hong Kong)

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Bracket City

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Saguine

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Andreotti-Norguet fourmula

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TheMaxChannel528-24-created titles

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Listed these titles for discussion as they are/were created by a blocked sockmaster/sockpuppet (TheMaxChannel528-24). Such a shame these could not be G5 deleted. Intrisit (talk) 22:03, 27 July 2025 (UTC)".[reply]

Delete and then recreate without history from the sock I checked all of them, and they appear to be 100% correct User:Someone-123-321 (I contribute, Talk page so SineBot will shut up) 13:19, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Viacom International Media Networks (Africa)

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Good articles

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These should point to the same place. Both are the results of two prior RfDs with incompatible outcomes (Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 November 1#Good articles on Wikipedia, Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2017 July 20#Good articles). Which is it? * Pppery * it has begun... 20:51, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

!vote

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Gummint

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Wikipedia is not Urban Dictionary Thepharoah17 (talk) 21:55, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Pages get around 10 monthly page views on average, with lows in the 1-pageview-in-a-month range and peaks as high as 20-30... with Gubmint specifically having a huge spike to 131 pageviews in April 2024 alone. These redirects ARE being used by SOMEONE. Yes, Wikipedia is not Urban Dictionary-- that means that we don't have unsourced definitions of slang words. That does NOT mean that we should avoid making redirects from actively-used slang words to the correct article. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 04:05, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The redirects are in use and the targets are not controversial. —Psychonaut (talk) 06:34, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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keep per above. drinks or coffee ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 ₍ᐢ. .ᐢ₎ choose only one... 06:25, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral on this, but noting that the recent and similar Feral gummint → Federal government of the United States RFD ended with a deletion. BugGhost 🦗👻 15:26, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'd say that "Feral" would've had an outsized influence on my own decision if I were to vote on that one. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 00:10, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Do not keep. The only thing that these terms have in common with the target, is that they start with a "g" and end with a "nt". This is not a likely typo of the word government. Government does not contain a "b", nor a "u", nor an "i". Plausible that this could be referring to gumming (off by one letter), gummite (off by two letters), even Gummi T (off by one letter). There are several options, and I would suggest deletion for this vague term that isn't covered at the target. In absence of deletion, I would weakly support a wiktionary redirect to wikt:gubmint and wikt:gummint respectively, which mentions these terms and link back to government. Someone dropping the "o", the "v", the "r", the "n", and both of the "e"s from the word government, while adding a "u", a "b" or an extra "m", and an "i", is not looking for a basic article on the government. That's 8 or 9 modifications too many; at best we account for one as an accident. Utopes (talk / cont) 02:09, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    None of us are suggesting this is an R from typo; this is instead an R from alternative spelling (namely, a spelling based on a regional dialect). People aren't accidentally typing this in; they're typing it this way on purpose, and the fact that wiktionary entries for both exist prove that. WP:RTYPO doesn't apply here. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 03:53, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    If this was merely a misspelling, then it wouldn't have to be mentioned. If the baseline is that searchers are typing this in on purpose, we should give them content that is as directly related to their search term as we can. We don't have any material about the intentional search term of "gummint" on Wikipedia. At best we have Wiktionary. If we are treating this as an intentional search term, then we must give readers an intentional result, or a mention to substantiate the search, because these are vastly different from the target definition and WP:RASTONISHing in a vacuum for anyone who isn't an insider. I.e. someone who misspelled the word "gumming" or "Gummi T" would have zero clue why the ended up at a page about the government, as nothing at the page for government would be able to educate them, or provide the slightest context about dialects that spell the word differently. There is no obvious distinction to readers why gummint -> government (with 8 variation from search term) over gummint -> gumming (1 variation from search term); the "dialect" version is insanely obscure, if it's even a real thing outside of a hypercasual urbandictionary setting. Adding a mention of "gummint" to the page for government would also be a pointless tangent on said page, so a Wiktionary redirect would satisfy those searchers at a minimum (but honestly we probably don't need to have any type of redirect for the lurches of urbandictionary to account for random citation-needed dialects that specify the spelling "gummint" instead of "government").
Post-research: We don't need lazy spellings for situations where "this word contains a possibly negative connotation, so people use less syllables for it to show disdain" dialect (wikt:gubmint corroborates). People search Wikipedia by typing in the name of the topic, not by typing in their disdain-version with less letters because they don't like the government so they're calling it the gummint instead. Wiktionary provides the bare minimum context for this eye variant at wikt:gummint, but I don't think we even need to hold reader's hands that far, because wiktionary will pop up with a regular Wikipedia search regardless. But it's better than stranding readers on a page with zero of the above context as the current target does. Utopes (talk / cont) 05:38, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Kænugarðr

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Retarget Closed discussion, see full discussion. Result was: retarget

Revert vandalism

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Previous RfDs for this redirect and similar redirects:

The target page doesn't explain "reverting" vandalism very well in terms of cleaning it (as far as I can see in that article). I suggest retargeting to Wiki#Controlling changes or Wiki#Security because this can cover different wikis. Justjourney (talk | contribs) 02:52, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete if appropriate retarget isn't found:The concept of "reverting vandalism" is not unique to wikis, nor is it unique to the online space in general; perhaps the exact phrasing of 'reverting' vandalism instead of 'removing' it would be a hint as to it being specifically vandalism on a website, but that still doesn't specifically point us to wikis-- website defacement is a real thing, and the process of undoing that would in fact be considered "reverting vandalism".
That said, we can't stay here. The 2009 RFD on this redirect mentioned that the Vandalism article briefly discusses the removal of vandalism, and that was sufficient for retargeting there; unfortunately, as Justjourney notes, the 2025 version of the Vandalism article doesn't, or at least does so so briefly that anyone actually looking for specifically the removal of vandalism would be ill-served to be redirected here. (Notwithstanding the fact that this redirect isn't refined in any way, so instead of being taken to a section specifically about removal of vandalism, the reader is instead taken to the very top of a long article that, at first blush, isn't what they asked for.) 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 03:26, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Chlodwig

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I'm open to keeping the status quo, redirecting to Clovis (given name), or other alternatives. I was at Luigi, followed the link to Chlodwig and was "astonished" to read the opening line of Louis (given name) which contains the very similar name Chlodowig which is a piped link to Clovis (given name), and wondered why these don't point to the same place. Louis may, indeed, be the better target but it's not obvious to me. --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 20:56, 5 July 2025 (UTC) EDIT: I have specified a preference below. --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 15:43, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete, or Retarget to Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst. There is absolutely no reason to have redirects created from every ancient form of every given name; that's just absurd. That's why we have the "Search" function (in addition to the "Go" function) in the search field, to locate all instances of the term, not just the one Neelix happened to turn his obsessive and nonsensical brain to. Softlavender (talk) 22:06, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    My hesitation is that it is used in two articles where it is linked with reference to the name, and none in reference to this or any other individual named Chlodwig. A Google search turns up a variety of references, including to the fellow you linked and to Clovis I aka, apparently, Chlodwig. I take your point about not creating redirects for every variant of a name that has ever been attested, but where a redirect is used in article space in this way, I'm inclined to keep or redirect to a more appropriate given name, but not retarget to a specific individual that no editor has linked mononymously this way. A DAB page would be better than this. --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 23:50, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Notified Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anthroponymy. Note that I previously notified Talk:Louis (given name), Talk:Luigi, Talk:Lewis (given name), Talk:Lewis (given name) and several editors who have contributed to Chlodwig. --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 15:54, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Retarget – definitely to either Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst or Clovis I. They should both probably have Template:Distinguish to each other in that case however. Ike Lek (talk) 16:51, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep or redirect to Clovis I, as the two most likely targets. A number of Frankish royal names have no standardized spelling, but are found in numerous forms, and this is one of them. It needs to redirect either to Louis or possibly to Clovis, as they are the same name. Presumably the link at Louis goes to "Clovis (given name)" because otherwise it would be a recursive link and uninformative; the same word can certainly link to different places depending on context, and in that case anyone clicking on it would be looking for historical information. Without that distinction, "Louis" makes as much sense—perhaps more, because the redirect is a spelling variation. Strongly oppose redirecting to "Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst", as an extremely improbable search target for the bare name. Most English speakers will be familiar with the name "Louis", many with Clovis I, very few with this German prince. That redirect would certainly astonish many readers. P Aculeius (talk) 16:54, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • NOTE: Chlodwig is not mentioned anywhere prominently or in bold in Clovis I. (It's buried deep in the body text and one has to use Control+F to even find it.) Therefore, I struggle to understand why that article is being promoted as a superior retarget. Softlavender (talk) 21:08, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Because most uses of it (under any spelling) encountered by readers are likely to be references to the Frankish king. Though there were other notable persons—including notable Franks—by this name, as well as partial title matches (such as the above-mentioned German noble, and the Clovis culture of North America and their characteristic spearheads), Clovis I sweeps the field among persons whose names are likely to be rendered simply as "Clodowig", "Chlodowig" "Clodwig", "Chlodwig", etc. P Aculeius (talk) 01:35, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    A condition for redirects is that the term be featured prominently, preferably in bold, in the target article, so there is no puzzlement from the reader as to why they ended up on that page when they were searching for something entirely and noticeably different. Since Clovis I still fails in that regard, I continue to oppose redirecting to that article. Softlavender (talk) 01:54, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    There's no such condition. Many thousands of morphological variants lead to the topics they're variants of without being "featured prominently" in the articles they target. In fact it would be absurd if persons (or things) whose names were spelled, though infrequently, in numerous ways had to feature each variation "prominently, preferably in bold". It's more common to have a subsection listing variant names, or simply to place a footnote in the lead. P Aculeius (talk) 13:32, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    P, in my opinion you don't sound very familiar with redirects or the conditions and rationales involved. "Chlodwig" or some variation of it would need to be mentioned in the lead, preferably the lead sentence, for the redirect to make sense to anyone typing in the term and clicking on what comes up. Generally people who type in a term are looking for someone by that very name, hence Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst. Most people can't remember the tongue-twisting rest of the name and so would simply type in "Chlodwig".

    "Chlodwig" and "Clovis" are not even spelling variants of each other, and differ too much to be understood by an unexplained redirect. If there are still people who want "Clovis" to be considered as a target, then in my opinion the only solution is Chlodwig (disambiguation), which would, quite obviously, list Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (and any other wiki titles with "Chlodwig" in them) first, and could then list or mention Clovis and/or various Clovises. Softlavender (talk) 20:37, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Though I poo-pooed the idea below, Chlodwig (disambiguation) is preferable to redirecting to Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst. "Chlodwig" used alone for Clovis I is well attested, even if this is not his most common name, and that is the far more popular page, and readers following links about the history of the name won't be helped much by the German prince article. I would quibble about which "Chlowig" to list first on the page, but such content questions could be dealt with on the DAB talk page itself. --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 21:50, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Indeed, "Chlodwig" even shows up in some dictionaries defined as Clovis I.[43][44] I am leaning towards Clovis (given name) as the best redirect. This is consistent with the two uses in articles currently, pointing to the origin of other names, and would lead readers to Clovis I and all the other Chlodwigs and Clovises. Clovis I could be mentioned in the lead or otherwise made more prominent there if there is concern that enough readers are looking for this individual (he is, of course, listed already). A new Chlodwig (disambiguation) Chlodwig DAB page (not that anyone has suggested this) page seems may be extraneous and would mostly point to and duplicate entries from Clovis (given name). WikiNav[45][46] shows a fair bit of traffic between Clovis (given name), Louis (given name), and the related names. --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 03:19, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Retarget to Clovis (given name) or DAB. The given name article already contains the etymology and lists individuals called "Chlodwig". Readers clicking Chlodwig from one of the other given name articles or entering the search term after seeing the name in reference to Clovis I will be confused and potentially mislead if they land at the article for the relatively obscure German prince. --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 15:43, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • DAB per my draft. voorts (talk/contributions) 01:20, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Voorts where might we find this draft? --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 02:42, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    At Chlodwig. voorts (talk/contributions) 02:52, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks. I've added Clovis I. The entry could be qualified with "(Old) German name for…" but this seemed redundant. --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 04:04, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I think the entry for Clovis is redundant since the first sentence links to the given name page. voorts (talk/contributions) 15:08, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Clovis I is the only individual who is routinely attested as "Chlodwig" mononymously in reliable sources, including standard dictionaries[47][48][49] and the reference work I cited on the draft DAB. It's a disservice to readers to obscure this. I would prefer to lead with something like "Chlodwig is the German name for Clovis I, first king of the Franks…" and then list the two lesser-known nobles and Clovis (given name), but I won't die on that hill. Perhaps listing "Other people named Clovis (given name)" as the last bullet and reworking the opening sentence would be better. --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 19:03, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Changed it. voorts (talk/contributions) 01:01, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Disambiguate. Compare de:Chlodwig. The overlap between Clovis, Chlodwig, Louis, Lewis, Ludwig, Ludovicus drives me nuts but the solution is a project-wide shift in how we handle given names and that is not on the table here. Srnec (talk) 22:58, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Retarget to Clovis (given name) per nom as primary topic per voorts' drafted dab. Do the same for Chlodowig. Copy the drafted dab at Chlodwig (disambiguation). Jay 💬 12:35, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    A reader searching for "Chlodwig" (I presume this is already a small population) would likely be looking for someone with that name or information about that name. I find it unlikely someone would search Wikipedia using that name and expect or hope to end up at a page that disambiguates the name "Clovis". In any event, the first sentence of Chlodwig links directly to Clovis (given name). If we were to go your route, it should be at Chlodwig (given name). voorts (talk/contributions) 15:07, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Addendum: Remove the two Chlodwigs from Clovis (given name). Clarityfiend (talk) 09:45, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Clarityfiend, there is no Chlodwig (given name) page. Softlavender (talk) 02:20, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Softlavender: It's there on the same page under the redirect. Clarityfiend (talk) 03:28, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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@Softlavender & @P Aculeius: are you okay with the DAB I drafted? voorts (talk/contributions) 00:14, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I don't see a dab page. I see that you have edited the redirect page. I have removed a statement from it that did not match the citation. Softlavender (talk) 02:20, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Softlavender: yes, drafts are routinely placed on the redirect page during RfD discussions. Do you maintain your earlier !vote? voorts (talk/contributions) 03:07, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I certainly prefer that new text to any retargeting to a completely different name. Softlavender (talk) 03:17, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No, not if the only persons listed are two obscure nineteenth-century aristocrats. Since this is a mere spelling variation of Chlodowig, Hluodwig, etc. it should probably list other Frankish kings or nobles who might be found under this spelling (no matter which spelling is the most frequent), or redirect to A) the most important article under any of them (Clovis I) or B) whichever spelling is used as a disambiguation page for the majority of them (such as "Clovis (given name)" or "Louis (given name)"). Otherwise we have a fractured disambiguation tree where each spelling variation is a separate list, disambiguation page, or redirect, even though there is no sharp distinction between them, and readers might use any of the spellings to search for various persons. The present version misleadingly suggests that the said nineteenth century aristocrats are the only notable persons who might be searched for under this spelling. P Aculeius (talk) 11:44, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@P Aculeius A prior draft of the DAB explicitly stated that Chlodwig is a variant of Clovis (given name) but that was removed. Clovis (given name) does not list any Hluodwigs or Chlodowigs. If you know of any examples, they should be added. I would add back the explicit link to Clovis (given name) and perhaps add a version of {{Infobox given name}} to Chlodwig, similar to the one that appears in the articles for Clovis, Louis, and the other related given names. --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 16:39, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
They are all spelling variations of the same name. Presumably any notable examples (or at least any with articles about them already written) are under some other spelling, and redirects from various spellings would not be indexed in a disambiguation page, though they might be listed in an article about the name. That does not mean that people will not search under those spellings.
A similar example might be illustrative: the Merovingian dynasty (to which Clovis and multiple of his namesakes belonged) is named after a king whose name is variously given in Frankish, Latin, French, and English sources as Merovech, Meroveus, Merovaeus, Merovée, Merewig, etc. However, though he bequeathed his name to the dynasty, he was not an important king, almost nothing is recorded about him, and so his name did not survive into modern times—at least not to a significant degree. Consequently there is no telling what form he will appear under in any given source. Only one spelling will be listed in a disambiguation page, and per DAB guidelines it will be the spelling used in the title of the article about him. But all of the other forms will be redirects to that article.
If the result of this discussion is that "Chlodwig" redirects to a disambiguation page, then the lead paragraph should probably mention as many spellings as possible, and only major groups (such as "persons named Louis") would be split off into their own pages (but with those pages still linked here), with all other notable persons listed irrespective of which spelling is used. P Aculeius (talk) 19:29, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

European area

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This is ambiguous. Not all European states are in the EEA so I think it should be deleted. JuniperChill (talk) 10:55, 3 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Mixy (TV programming block)

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An AFD on this title resulted in a merge into its current target indicated about an Australian children's comedy TV series which has no bearing on it whatsoever apart from a few mentions. So, I'm listing it here for a discussion, thoughts? Worth still keeping this? Intrisit (talk) 21:51, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Keep as a suitable target that mentions the Mixy TV programming block, in the absence of a Mixy article. (Mixy for some reason is a redirect to a rabbit disease!) The AfD outcome of retarget was proper, but the merge that happened dumped all content into the #After_the_Ferals section, while ideally only a few sentences were worthy of merge. I have now removed most of it, and comments are welcome. Jay 💬 04:43, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    One of the comments at the AfD had suggested the merge to the red-linked Children's television in Australia, but there was a Children's programming on ABC Television available at the time too, which was not suggested. It now is little more than a stub, and not a target that can take contain entire details of a TV programming block. Without enhancing the article to list all programming blocks, a mention of Mixy would be undue. Jay 💬 04:48, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    So why did you vote keep since it has no definitive target to target this one to? Even the target itself indicated has no info on this, how much more even keeping this redirect any longer? It's only such a shame that a history merge into the target is impossible under parallel histories, otherwise I wouldn't have listed this over here! Intrisit (talk) 20:44, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Because it is a "suitable target" "in the absence of a Mixy article". The target does have info on the Mixy programming block. Jay 💬 18:39, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Arrowroot biscuit

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there is also an australian biscuit called a "milk arrowroot biscuit" that, based off my research, looks to be different from uraro User:Someone-123-321 (I contribute, Talk page so SineBot will shut up) 11:33, 15 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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There is also a Canadian arrowroot biscuit, made by Christie (Nabisco). Definitely not the same as either the Filipino cookies or the Australian ones, although I suspect the Canadian and Australian ones share a common British heritage. I'm shocked that we don't have an article on them.--Srleffler (talk) 00:04, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • As noted by Srleffler, Uraro is a Filipino traditional cookie and not all Arrowroot biscuits are Uraro - so, I feel it is misleading given that other countries also have "commercial" arrowroot biscuits - might make sense to keep just Arrowroot biscuits (currently a redirect to Arrowroot) and develop it as article to include details such as the ones Srleffler mentioned and delete Arrowroot biscuit. Asteramellus (talk) 01:31, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Avant Prarie, Texas

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Its misspelled. Even if spelled correctly, it probably wouldn’t receive views. Roast (talk) 23:38, 7 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Muƹawiya

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I cannot find this usage anywhere else on the internet, though it's possible google is failing me due to the weird character. I don't believe ƹ and ' are reasonably interchangeable in this manner, though I am not a linguist and will gladly be corrected by someone who knows this area better than me. Rusalkii (talk) 04:03, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment the article on ƹ implies that it was most commonly used in the 1940s-1980s, a period of time underrepresented on the internet so a lack of uses known to Google is not definitive. The Arabic letter (Ayin#Arabic ʿayn) it is/was used to transcribe does appear in the Arabic name for the target given in the infobox ("معاوية"), so it is not impossible this is an old transliteration - however I am not an Arabic speaker or familiar with the target topic area at all, so I'm not really qualified to speak to its plausibility. I'll see if I can find an appropriate WikiProject to alert to this discussion. Thryduulf (talk) 10:20, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment/Weak Keep I'm not an expert on Arabic so IDK if this usage is likely to ever get searched for, but from from a linguistic perspective ƹ and ' do seem to both represent the same sound, a voiced pharyngeal fricative. Both are used to transliterate the Arabic ع‎. So the redirect seems plausible. Redirects are cheap, but do we normally redirect phonetic transcriptions to their articles? -- LWG talk 15:36, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Lean delete. We normally redirect transliterations, transcriptions, and alternative forms where an all-ASCII variant points to the correct version with diacritics or other "special characters" (BeyonceBeyoncé) or for official or widely used schemes likely to be encountered by readers (Hànyǔ PīnyīnPinyin). Here we have an unusual character ⟨ƹ⟩ that requires special keyboard entry and a transcription we can't find attested anywhere outside of this redirect. --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 15:07, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    See my above comments. Google not knowing about it is not the same thing as it not being attested anywhere, especially as the most likely places for it to have been used are among the least likely places for Google to have indexed. Thryduulf (talk) 16:05, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Your comments along with LWG's and the listing comment by Rusalkii are why I'm only lean/weak delete and why I waited several days to weigh in, to see if more support for this transcription would materialize. I should have addressed this directly. It doesn't quite pass my threshold for plausibility/utility, even if I can rationalize a use case, but I'm open to it. --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 21:47, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Per Redirect Creator. Tiny Particle (talk) 11:33, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Tail wing

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These should point at the same target. 1234qwer1234qwer4 22:36, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Are any of these referred to as tail "wing"? Also, aren't canard and delta wing tailless? Jay 💬 10:02, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, they are both technically tailless, but it requires some technical knowledge to realize that "tail" refers to the empennage, and not simply to the rear of the aircraft. I've had someone ask me what to call an airplane "with the big wing at the tail", pointing to a canard. Carguychris (talk) 04:07, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Wouldn't that be the tail fin? Is "tail wing" only a colloquial usage, or are there sources that phrase it in this way? Both Empennage and Tailplane don't mention a "tail wing". Jay 💬 05:33, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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  1. Reddit ("The smaller tail wings provide lift")
  2. Quora ("What does the tail wing on a plane do?")
  3. NASA ("To control and maneuver the aircraft, smaller wings are located at the tail of the plane")
  4. National Air and Space Museum ("The horizontal stabilizer, or rear wing, helps keep the airplane in level flight.")
Tevildo (talk) 22:04, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Agreed. Retarget per Tevildo and tag as {{R from colloquial name}}. The first sentence of Tailplane mentions tail (empennage) as a whole, for those who are interested. Jay 💬 05:44, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nile Canal

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This isn’t a correct redirect. Even googling “Nile Canal” brings up something up totally different. The previous edit to this page actually said to bring it to RFD so here I am. Therefore, I say Delete. Thepharoah17 (talk) 08:33, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete or convert to a disambiguation page: The Suez Canal is not connected to the Nile, so it's clearly unhelpful to redirect there. The "predecessors", which is to say the ancient/medieval canals between the Nile and the Red Sea, are covered in two articles already: Canal of the Pharaohs and Khalij (Cairo). Neither of them is really known as the "Nile Canal" to my knowledge, which is why I think deleting as too vague is fine, otherwise a DAB that links to both those articles (and any other articles that might be reasonably relevant) is also fine. R Prazeres (talk) 15:56, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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  • I wonder if redirecting this to a List of canals in Egypt page that includes all the waterways listed above might be the way to go? If there are or were any canals on the Nile upstream of Egypt then they can be linked in a hatnote? Thryduulf (talk) 13:57, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • dabify per above drinks or coffee ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 ₍ᐢ. .ᐢ₎ choose only one... 11:15, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • dabify Sorry to throw a late and possibly inappropriate spanner into the works, but it is my understanding that there was an ancient canal between the Tigris and Euphrates, extant in the 11th or 12th century, that was referred to as the Nile Canal. It's mentioned in a story 'The Lion of Tiberias' (1933) by Robert E. Howard thus: "The great canal men called the Nile, that connected the Euphrates with the distant Tigris, was choked with bodies of the tribesmen, . . . ." While Howard wrote much fantasy, his historical fiction was usually grounded in good background research.
    I actually found this discussion while looking for more information about said canal, which the story suggests was near Hilla (and thus the site of Babylon), so from the article Nahr Isa would likely have been one of the three more southerly canals called Nahr Sarsar, Nahr Malik, and Nahr Kutha. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.5.172.125 (talk) 15:10, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    So which entries would you disambiguate this with? Hillah mentions a Nile City. Are you suggesting the Hilla Canal was the Nile Canal? There is no "Nile" at Nahr Isa. Readers who know Nile is in Egypt will be confused to end up near Baghdad if there is no explanation. Jay 💬 06:44, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Turkish genocide (19th–20th century)

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Per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Turkish genocide; the concerns there do not appear to have been addressed by adding a timestamp. * Pppery * it has begun... 18:01, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There's also Turkish genocide (1820–1920) and Genocide of Turkish people from the same creator, might be worth bundling? 86.23.87.130 (talk) 22:53, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Added those. * Pppery * it has begun... 17:42, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Also listed Turkish massacre. Maybe all of these should be considered together. Bogazicili (talk) 20:28, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Delete There are no reliable sources that will actually claim there was a genocide of Turks happening for over a century. This is fringe historical negationism, generally only claimed by deniers of the Armenian/Greek/Assyrian genocides. Claiming that Turks were the real victims of genocide is a form of Armenian/Greek/Assyrian genocide denial (see Iğdır Genocide Memorial and Museum), as thus doesn't belong on Wikipedia. Therefore, these titles are not appropriate, as they were titled by a Wikipedia user last month, not by credible historians. KhndzorUtogh (talk) 05:59, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • After the Turkish genocide AFD, it was recreated as a redirect, and remained as such for 2 years, having been edited by 7 editors with 4 different targets. It was deleted (I would say incorrectly) by the AfD closer Sandstein as a G4. Another redirect Turkey genocide created in 2017 still stands. Jay 💬 05:07, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Genocide_of_Turkish_people is specific and cannot be retargeted to the massacre dab which is for by and of Turks. From the List_of_massacres_of_Turkish_ people, only the Persecution_of_Muslims_during_the_Ottoman_contraction (the current target) includes genocide, so that can be a keep.
From the List_of_massacres_in_Turkey, it is mostly the WW1 ones perpetrated by the Young Turks that are seen as genocide (Greek, Assyrian, Armenian, Yazidi). So overall, the massacre dab is too broad a target for any Turkish genocide redirects, and a Turkish genocide can be made a dab similar to the massacre dab (of and by). Turkey_genocide (not bundled here) can be retargeted to the new dab.
On the timestamped redirects, the period of 1820-1920 is mentioned by multiple sources and the infobox of the current target, so I'm Ok with that timestamp. Not so much with 19th–20th century, because WW1 that comes under 20th century, makes the title vague, and it may be deleted. Jay 💬 14:38, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Alternative Whispy Woods names and unhelpful lists

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Originally thought this was a one and done when I nominated Yggy Woods' redirect earlier, turns out there were a lot more. While the character Whispy Woods seems to have a use on-wiki, a bunch of his variations from when the character list was redirected just are not mentioned anywhere else and seem like particularly minor characters. Additionally, now with the character list gone, many of the older redirects for old character lists merged into the one just redirected are now unhelpful, since the new target does not discuss "Kirby enemies" or bosses as a group. All in all, these are not useful redirects, and should probably be deleted. Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 16:17, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Retarget Twin Woods to Kirby Super Star and Flowery Woods to Kirby Triple Deluxe since both are characters mostly limited to their respective game, Keep Kirby series enemies and Kirby series bosses while merging some of the information from the old character list into the Kirby (series) article and Delete the rest since they appear to be incorrect/strange name variations. Computerfan0 (talk) 00:15, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Computerfan0 Twin Woods and Flowery Woods are both unmentioned at the targets and are rather minor characters in the grand scheme of the game. I also feel that even with merging the two redirects are inaccurate; the characters section is not discussing bosses or enemies, and the only ones that would have the coverage to be discussed are minimal and not a good reflection of what a reader would be looking for with that redirect. Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 01:03, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yggy Woods

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Origin-Revolving Hero

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Xiling Society of the Seal Art

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Dovber Schneersohn

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I'm not sure what's going on here. @Altenmann: redirected this to a given name page without explanation, but the previous target of Dovber Schneuri seems more appropriate ("Schneuri adopted the family name of "Schneuri," after his father, but succeeding generations changed it to "Schneersohn," or "Schneerson.") Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 11:33, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep It is very simple. (1) There are multiple Dovbers Shneersons; (2) not to say that right now I deleted the phrase about "succeeding generations" unreferenced for 4 years. One should know better than to redirect to unreferenced statements. (3) And as a final stroke, I am not sure how you concluded that Dovber Shneuri was known as DOvber shneerson, because the "succeeding generations" took the name Schneersohn for themselves, not for him. --Altenmann >talk 15:59, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Shalom Dovber

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"Shalom Dovber" or "Sholom Dovber" appears to be (although I'm not an expert) a given name and a middle name. There seem to be two articles about people with this combination of names: Sholom Lipskar to which Sholom Dovber Lipskar redirects; and Sholom Dovber Schneersohn. Sholom Dovber does not exist, and I think it's better to delete this and allow Search to work unfettered. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 11:23, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Quebec's

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Draft:Gymnophthalmoidea

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Free grocery store

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The redirect is a novel or very obscure synonym for an article name that is not mentioned in the target. Potentially a misnomer. Beeps beeps (talk) 10:11, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  •  Comment: I notified the target of this RFD. Thepharoah17 (talk) 10:31, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment: The Pratt Free Market in Baltimore calls itself a "free grocery store". I'm not certain how a free grocery store is distinct from a food bank. A cursory internet search shows that the term is used elsewhere to describe locations in Nashville, Minnesota, Atlanta, California, Florida, etc. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 11:27, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    There are 232,000 results for "free grocery store" on Google (in quotes), 19,400,000 for "food bank" and 12,200,000 for "food pantry". I think that makes it an obscure synonym.
    If "free grocery store" is a non-obscure synonym for "food bank", then Food bank should be updated to include the term. Beeps beeps (talk) 12:16, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep and add mention. I wouldn't say it's an obscure synonym, given it's in active use by these organizations to describe themselves-- with a very important caveat, in that from my understanding, "free grocery stores" differ from traditional food banks/pantries by allowing those who use their services to pick out their food themselves like in an actual grocery store, rather than getting pre-selected pre-rationed parcels of food i.e. a traditional food bank/food pantry. That sort of thing ABSOLUTELY deserves a mention in the main article on food banks, and heck-- we already have some sources to use, Bohemian Baltimore furnished us with suitable news articles two replies up.
    I'd say that a synonym is only obscure enough to NOT warrant a redirect, if there's little to no chance that anyone would actually type it in-- and someone encountering, for example, Pratt Free Market, or The Grocery Spot, or The Store, or any of these other 'free grocery stores' would absolutely want to pop the term into Wikipedia to find out more. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 04:23, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete, no mention of this term at this time. Someone who types in the words "grocery" and "store" would be inclined to end up at a section of grocery store, which would be my preference if content were to exist (although I'm fine with letting it go altogether). At grocery store, it could be discussed that "grocery stores that are free, are food banks, etc. From there, could link to food bank, or other examples when a grocery store might be free, without being a food bank (if that is the case, unsure). At the end of the day, "free grocery store" has no words in common with "food bank" so I'm currently inclined to delete and let the search results handle it. If someone wants to add material about the marketing terms for food banks being "free grocery stores", whenever they want to do that, there is WP:NORUSH, and then the redirect can be substantiated with content at that point. Utopes (talk / cont) 03:52, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Pokémon/Bulbasaur

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Relisted, see Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 August 5#Pokémon/Bulbasaur

מאָסקװע

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Nominating per WP:FORRED. This is the Yiddish language word for Moscow, but Moscow's name is not of Yiddish origin. ArthananWarcraft (talk) 17:11, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Comment: There are many cities in Eastern Europe with Yiddish names such as Lviv. Thepharoah17 (talk) 17:22, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The article on Lviv says "Lviv was also a major centre of Jewish culture, in particular as a centre of the Yiddish language, and was the home of the world's first Yiddish-language daily newspaper, the Lemberger Togblat, established in 1904." That shows a strong connection between Lviv and Yiddish and justifies a redirect from Lviv's Yiddish name (also mentioned in the article). Unless a similar connection is demonstrated for Moscow, this redirect should be deleted. Toadspike [Talk] 18:45, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Keep per WP:CHEAP. A harmless redirect (which I created in 2024). Iljhgtn (talk) 00:38, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Dwayne J

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Ambiguous redirect, could also refer to Dwayne Jarrett, Dwayne Joseph, etc. I have already nominated another redirect for similar reasons, see below. ArthananWarcraft (talk) 13:30, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom.-UCO2009bluejay (talk) 09:15, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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retarget per Thryduulf. drinks or coffee ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 ₍ᐢ. .ᐢ₎ choose only one... 16:30, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Igloo Inc.

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Rule 62

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Republic of China era

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Main Character Syndrome

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PMoI

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DYRG

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Strobelight (song)

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1956 Hungarian counter-revolution

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Suck a dick

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Not useful, and self promotional for the original editor of the redirect. As per WP:RDEL "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' and "The redirect constitutes self-promotion or spam" in this case, for the original editor / creator Nayyn (talk) 22:06, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

close already deleted. drinks or coffee ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 ₍ᐢ. .ᐢ₎ choose only one... 09:11, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Sorry DrinksOrCoffee I've just reverted your close. Can someone explain what happened here? This redirect looks correct to me, the nom statement is baffling (not sure how it could be seen as self promo or spam or as a very obscure synonym), and the redirect got deleted while it was meant to be under discussion at RFD? What happened? Could anyone with deletion goggles give some insight? Either way, Keep (recreate?) as a harmless redirect from a common phrase to the correct article. (Pinging nom Nayyn) BugGhost 🦗👻 23:01, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Comment Page was deleted by asilvering-(Mass deletion of pages added by Kjjj6uhhhhh - more disruptive redirect creation). — 🪫Volatile 📲T | ⌨️C 02:30, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks - I completely forgot non-admins could still see deletion logs. Looks like it was nuked about an hour after this RFD was created. Pinging asilvering BugGhost 🦗👻 06:23, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Bugghost, it took me some work to understand what "self promotional" meant here but I think I get it. The context is that the creator, who from behaviour I assume is a middle schooler, has spent most of their time on Wikipedia creating or requesting dozens of redirects on topics that middle schoolers think are edgy and funny, like various sex acts, names for genitalia, and the n-word. See their extensive user talk page for examples and various attempts by admins to tell them to cut it out. If any of you think any of these redirects are genuinely useful, they can be recreated. My personal opinion on the matter is that no one should do that, because we should not feed the trolls and because these redirects are stupid. No one's needed a redirect from "suck a dick" to "fellatio" in 25 years. We don't need it now either. -- asilvering (talk) 12:40, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks for the clarity on this one. I appreciate why the redirects made by this user got nuked, but seeing as this one (and Suck a cock below) got listed at RFD I think they should have remained at a deletion discussion rather than deleted outside of it. Regardless of who made the redirects, even if it was a vandal who also made unhelpful redirects, if it was listed at RFD it should stick around until we get a consensus. Maybe wp:nuke should be updated to avoid deleting things that are already listed at deletion discussions? Either way, in my view, the "the website has survived without this for x years so we don't need it now" argument is techincally applicable to all new articles/redirects, so without further reasoning it's not enough to justify deletion. It's worth noting that suck dick, sucking dick and dick sucking are already existing non-controversial redirects to fellatio, and suck a dick is not really an outlier. BugGhost 🦗👻 23:25, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per Asilvering. * Pppery * it has begun... 19:53, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep/recreate as per BugGhost. I now understand why these were considered spam specifically, as prior (on 'Suck a cock') I hadn't seen the other redirects (though as a note for user:Nayyn maybe it'd be a good idea to bundle them together and specify "hey, the reason I'm doing this is because these are spam", so we don't spend energy trying to figure out how these are somehow self promotional, next time?)
    That said, I'd like to still point out that this is a common colloquial English term for the act of fellatio ('cock' and 'dick' themselves both being colloquial terms for penis), which means it still fails WP:RDEL's "novel/obscure synonym" test (er, passes??? okay so what it does is evade WP:RDEL). Also, given these are recently created I'm not sure we have data on how much they would be searched, so I don't know if asilvering's "we haven't needed these redirects for 25 years" argument actually holds water? 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 22:06, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    The view logs when I submitted them were less than 5 views over the past 30 days, so I didn't think it readers were finding them useful... Nayyn (talk) 22:10, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment adding in some old RfDs for a similar redirect (Suck my cock) which may be potentially relevant. — 🪫Volatile 📲T | ⌨️C 20:56, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. Absolutely useless, and potentially misleading. As a phrase, this is generally used as some sort of retort, and has very little to do with the actual act. Also DNFT and all that per Asilvering. 35.139.154.158 (talk) 15:26, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Speedy delete per G3. We should discourage this sort of behavior. voorts (talk/contributions) 18:18, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep per Bugghost and my comments below at #Suck a cock. Thryduulf (talk) 21:31, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. This phrase is used more commonly as a pejorative to a point where readers searching this term aren't necessarily looking for the current target article. Steel1943 (talk) 20:30, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete consistent with the outcome of the January RfD where it was established that Fellatio is not the appropriate target for the insult/retort. There is also no useful content at Dick (slang). Agree with BugGhost that suck dick, sucking dick and dick sucking are valid redirects to the act, but I see the "a" in "Suck a dick" to generalize "my", "his", etc. The other similar terms are sufficient for anyone looking for the act, and this one was troll behaviour or fishing for credit per nom and asilvering. Jay 💬 06:56, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Suck a cock

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Not useful, and self promotional for the original editor of the redirect. As per WP:RDEL "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' and "The redirect constitutes self-promotion or spam" for the original editor / creator Nayyn (talk) 22:05, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Booty (sexual slang)

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Sucking butt

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A Main Page

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Affect of ice age in uk

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EspN

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Cabrera system

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Affects of the 2020 Nashville tornado outbreak on Super Tuesday

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Ratshack

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Storming

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Cube root of 2

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TJ Tatran Oravské Veselé

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New London, Canada

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Same-sex marriage in Baja

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That's What Makes the Jukebox Play

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Tomasulo

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Oozora Subaru

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Active weather modification projects

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List of cloud seeding projects during 2025

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Politics and severe weather during 2020

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Thomas Gilou

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Albuquerque: THE MOVIE

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Lodestone Games

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Avunculus

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Nawab Muzaffar Khan Park

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Target says that "Fayyaz Park Muzaffargarh [...] is the only park in the city", though there is an unannotated mention at List_of_places_in_Muzaffargarh#Parks_and_Gardens. 1234qwer1234qwer4 00:10, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Criticism of Islam/Sub article: Alleged intolerance of Islam to criticism

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City school kapco capter

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