Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2012 August 12

August 12[edit]

This is a list of redirects that have been proposed for deletion or other action on August 12, 2012

Regard[edit]

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more redirects. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the redirect's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the discussion was Soft redirect to Wiktionary. Tikiwont (talk) 20:09, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Regard → Look (links to redirect • history • stats) [ Closure: keep/delete ]

"Regard" is not a synonym for "look". Nothing on the target page has "Regard" in it. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 18:22, 12 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, the two words have similar senses, but they are not always synonymous and as you note the dab page at Look is not a good target. The redirect has been here since 2008 and gets a lot of hits (over 470 last month) which is a huge amount for a redirect without mainspace links so it's important we have something here. I'm not finding anything that would be suitable for a disambiguation page (just partial title matches) so probably a soft redirect to Wiktionary is the way to go. Thryduulf (talk) 23:09, 12 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Soft Retarget to Wiktionary per Thryduulf, Regards --Lenticel ^(talk) 00:20, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Soft redirect to Wiktionary. TBran dl ey 05:45, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Ethnic_conflict_in_Sri_Lanka[edit]

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The result of the discussion was Rename per Thryduulf. Ruslik_Zero 17:12, 16 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ethnic_conflict_in_Sri_Lanka → Sri Lankan civil war (links to redirect • history • stats) [ Closure: keep/delete ]

Delete. The redirect page makes it unreasonably difficult for users to locate similarly named articles via the search engine. It is in conflict with this article - Ethnic_Conflict_in_Sri_Lanka Himesh84 (talk) 16:25, 12 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

nomination fixed. Thryduulf (talk) 17:30, 12 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Move article Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka to Ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka (lowercase "c") over this redirect per standard article titling conventions. Then tag the resultant redirect (from capital "C" to lowercase "c") as {{R from other capitalisation}}. Thryduulf (talk) 17:30, 12 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - When the Sri Lankan Civil War was first created in May 2003 it was titled Ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka. It wasn't until August 2006 that Ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka was renamed Sri Lankan civil war (subsequently renamed Sri Lankan Civil War). As a consequence there are many articles which link to Ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka. These links are meant to take the reader to the Sri Lankan Civil War article, not the Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka article which was only started in July 2012. It would therefore be wholly misleading to readers if Ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka were moved to Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka before all the links have been corrected so that they point to the Sri Lankan Civil War article.--obi2canibe^{talk contr} 19:49, 18 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Conflating now for years ethnic conflict and civil war with this redirect and its links seems to be the misleading thing here, so it needs to be fixed, and moving per Thryduulf should be fine but updating the pertinent links at least in mainspace and where seen necessary also in talk and project pages is warranted as well. --Tikiwont (talk) 20:46, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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List of current IPL team rosters[edit]

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The result of the discussion was Keep and disambiguate. As far as I see this means now a hat not referring to other leagues at IPL in general but can be expanded to a dab page when necessary.Tikiwont (talk) 20:25, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

List of current IPL team rosters → List of current Indian Premier League team rosters (links to redirect • history • stats) [ Closure: keep/delete ]

The term "IPL" is ambiguous (see the IPL disambiguation page). It refers to, among other things, some other sports leagues such as Indonesian Premier League, and the string "List of current IPL team rosters" does not contain any terms specifically related to cricket or the Indian Premier League, which can make this a misleading redirect (for example, someone who wants to view the current team rosters of the Indonesian Premier League will be directed to the wrong article). jfd34 (talk) 08:04, 12 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Seems like a clear cut case for disambiguation to me. Thryduulf (talk) 09:20, 12 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Agree. No case has been made for deleting this redirect. A hatnote at the target page, or a disambiguation page, are both far better solutions to the issue raised. Andrewa (talk) 12:15, 12 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Cluster (computing[edit]

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The result of the discussion was keep. JohnCD (talk) 21:03, 26 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Cluster (computing → Computer cluster (links to redirect • history • stats) [ Closure: keep/delete ]

This redirect's name is missing the closed parenthesis. Since the correct redirect already exists, and this specific mistyping doesn't seem freequent, I believe this should be deleted... Arny (talk) 08:10, 12 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep it's existed since 2010 without doing any harm and it's getting a significant number of hits (41 last month for example), do deletion would be harmful and bring no benefits. Thryduulf (talk) 09:18, 12 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep plausible mispelling.--Lenticel ^(talk) 00:20, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete incorrect disambiguation format, poor typo, since it involves Wikipedia specific notation, and not general typos of the world at large. It's probably showing up in the searchbox and then being selected. -- 76.65.128.252 (talk) 04:44, 18 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - plausible typo, no value in deletion. Wily D 08:16, 23 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as a plausible typo with no potential for harmfulness, confusion or ambiguity. Easily passes WP:R#KEEP #2 since the article was originally created at this title, and arguably passes #5 as well. Does not meet any WP:R#DELETE conditions. BigNate37_(T) 19:24, 23 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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