Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2007 November 23

November 23[edit]

The gay disease → AIDS[edit]

The result of the debate was speedy delete as vandalism (CSD G3). WjBscribe 12:24, 23 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Definitely not a gay disease, since the majority of cases are heterosexuals. Most likely vandalism, but I didn't think it was overt enough to be G3'ed. --slakr^\ talk / 02:42, 23 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy delete I do. JuJube (talk) 03:00, 23 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The above is preserved as the archive of an RfD nomination. Please do not modify it.

BALLON ANGIOPLASTY → Balloon angioplasty[edit]

The result of the debate was speedy keep, nominator withdrew the nomination. Neranei (talk) 04:01, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This page was created as a new article, with numerous spelling errors, so I redirected the page to Balloon angioplasty, and while "ballon" is perhaps a valid mis-spelling, the all-capitalization makes this redirect unlikely, and unnecessary. Ariel♥Gold 12:23, 23 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. I don't think this is going to be a common search term, as you say. – Luna Santin (talk) 03:52, 25 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. If you type 'Ballon angioplasty', this redirect takes you to Balloon angioplasty (well, it would if it weren't nominated for deletion). Please make sure you know all the spellings a particular redirect takes care of before you nominate it for deletion. Timeineurope (talk) 01:08, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: The reason I nominated it wasn't that it was an invalid alternate spelling, but that the redirect is in all caps. It is unlikely someone will be typing in all caps, but I didn't realize that the search box seems to automatically convert lower case into all caps, (which does not make a lot of sense, since so many redirects are due to alternate capitalization, and searching with the wrong capitalization of most names results in no page found.) I understand the alternate spellings, I just think the lower case would be a better redirect, but the lower-case redirect does not exist: Ballon angioplasty. Ariel♥Gold 01:27, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The redirect Ballon angioplasty wouldn't do anything the redirect BALLON ANGIOPLASTY doesn't already do, so deleting BALLON ANGIOPLASTY and creating Ballon angioplasty would make zero sense.

It makes no difference whether a redirect is in all caps, all lower case except the first letter, has all words starting with a capital letter or has some words starting with a capital letter and some with a lower-case letter. One of the many redirects to Shia LaBeouf is Shya Labuff. This redirect takes care of the spellings 'Shya Labuff', 'Shya LaBuff', 'SHYA LABUFF', 'shya labuff', 'Shya labuff', 'shya Labuff', 'SHya laBUFf', 'ShyA labuFF' and a whole host of others. If, instead of Shya Labuff, the redirect were SHYA LABUFF or Shya labuff, it would still take care of the exact same spellings.

By the way, Balloon angioplasty is itself a redirect to Angioplasty, so I'm going to redirect BALLON ANGIOPLASTY to Angioplasty.

Timeineurope (talk) 02:26, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just goes to show, even after 2.5 years, I can still learn something new. That's what makes Wikipedia so awesome. It is quite odd that I get constant "no page exists" errors when searching if I don't use the exact capitalization, but I understand what you're saying. I guess this can be closed, and a lesson for me. :) Ariel♥Gold 03:17, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

To clarify, it does make a great deal of difference whether the page title is in all caps, mixed case or some other variation - just not for the search engine. Other functions in Wikipedia are case-sensitive. That's why you get those "no page exists" errors. Please remember that redirects do far more than merely support the search engine. (And, by the way, keep this one at the new target.) Rossami (talk)

I fully realize that capitalization makes a great deal of difference, what Timeineurope is saying is that if someone types this in the search box, it doesn't matter if it is all caps or not. This page was created and was basically quite a poor quality article that was redundant, and I felt this was an unlikely search item being in all caps. I agree the current target is correct, but I didn't realize that the search box auto-finds when someone types in all caps (I guess because I've never done it lol). Ariel♥Gold 03:58, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The above is preserved as the archive of a RfD nomination. Please do not modify it.