Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2012 February 9

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This is a list of redirects that have been proposed for deletion or other action on February 9, 2012

American Medical Association Alliance

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 delete. JohnCD (talk) 20:19, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

• American Medical Association Alliance → American Medical Association (links to redirect • history • stats)     [ Closure: keep/delete ] 

delete; no justification in the article for this formulation of the organization's name - seems to be a wholly separate organization per the below discussion in any event Carlossuarez46 (talk) 17:49, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

• Delete as misleading. My rationale is stated in discussion about AMAA below. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 01:16, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

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AMAA

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 delete. JohnCD (talk) 17:05, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

• AMAA → American Medical Association (links to redirect • history • stats)     [ Closure: keep/delete ] 

Deletion proposed, as it seems unnecessary and confusing. Unnecessary because the acronym doesn't expand to the target page's name, nor does the acronym or anything that it could plausibly stand for appear anywhere on the target page. Confusing because it gives undue prominence to this supposed meaning of the acronym over other meanings: I encountered this page when searching the web to find out what ‘AMAA’ means. The meaning I was searching for was harder to find because of Wikipedia's dominance in giving this meaning for it; that would be reasonable if this were indeed the most common meaning, but I can't find any evidence of that, and given it's so obscure as to not even appear on the target page it seems unlikely. Smylers (talk) 10:33, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

• Delete: clearly misleading redirect. The name used to stand for a DAB for American Medical Association Alliance and Armenian Missionary Association of America. Then someone created American Medical Association Alliance mistaking it for alternative name for American Medical Association (which was probably the intent of the naming and branding of AMAA), and this redirect replaced the DAB. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 11:59, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
• Delete and also delete American Medical Association Alliance as unjustified by its target as well. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 17:46, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
• Delete, although as far as I'm concerned it could simply be retargeted to African Movie Academy Award. A separate disambiguation page could perhaps be created to including Association Mauricienne d'Athlétisme Amateur (see List of Mauritian records in athletics), Atlantic Messianic Alliance of America (see List of Messianic Jewish organizations), Armenian Missionary Association of America (see Armenian Evangelical Church). older ≠ wiser 20:04, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

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