Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2007 October 20

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Horseshit → Islam

The result of the debate was Original target restored & the one who redirected it left a uw-vandalism warning. If someone wants to write an article, they can always convert the redirect to one. -- JLaTondre 14:11, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Redirect is an inane slur, and horseshit deserves its own article. G-Dett 13:36, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

• Comment. This used to redirect to Bullshit, which is probably correct. I've taken the liberty of re-retargetting it there. It should not, of course, redirect to Islam. — Gavia immer (talk) 13:52, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

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

WP:AG → Wikipedia:WikiProject_Arcade_games

The result of the debate was Keep It's fine. -- Anonymous Dissident^Talk 04:36, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Unintuitive and Ambiguous Shortcut; AG is a disambiguation page with 35 disambiguation links and Arcade Game is not one of them. The shortcut page has no meaningful history, only 8 pages link to it and they could easily link to direct to the Project. And, the project is {{inactive}} Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 05:57, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

• Keep. Nothing in the nomination is a reason to delete a working shortcut. Is there some harm done to the project by retaining it? — Gavia immer (talk) 13:22, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

No harm to the project that I can see since the project is inactive. The harm is to users who might try to use it to go somewhere more intuitive. Since the project is inactive it is highly unlikely anyone would actually be going to that project. The important point is that the shortcut is ambiguous. The much more intuitive use of the name would be for "Agriculture", but given the ambiguity caused by so many things with the abbreviation or acronym "AG", it should just be killed. If the shortcut has merit it should be freed up for others to use, otherwise it should be eliminated.--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 20:57, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

• Question for the nominator: Do you want to delete the redirect, or do you want to retarget it? If you want to do the former, I say keep it, as it's doing no harm (and Wikipedia shortcuts by no means have to be based off of actual acronyms). If you want to do the latter, please say so! This page is called "Redirects for Discussion" for a good reason. Gracenotes^T § 01:17, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

I initially thought to retarget to Wikipedia:WikiProject Agriculture, on review of the policies/guidelines I thought better of it and thought it should be deleted because, among other reasons, it's confusing. I particularly thought so on searching for the article AG and finding a disambiguation page with 35 entries many of which could probably be projects with "WP:AG" for a logical shortcut and thought it might be seen as unreasonable to retarget, or request to retarget, that to anywhere, so I nominated for deletion. I guess, I over-read the guidelines though as it's not quite like a redirect from one article name to another similarly named but different article (like the Adam B. Smith example on this page). So, based on what I've gotten for a response, I'm modifying my request to "retarget to Wikipedia:WikiProject Agriculture", since the current target is inactive and the incoming links to the shortcut are so few.--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 03:49, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

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