Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2012 October 24

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This is a list of redirects that have been proposed for deletion or other action on October 24, 2012

Substratum

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 keep. JohnCD (talk) 11:41, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

• Substratum → Stratum (linguistics) (links to redirect • history • stats)     [ Closure: keep/delete ] 

This should be disambiguated, since it is commonly used as a synonym of substrate, and used in geologic contexts for underlying stratum, and in electrical engineering contexts for base layers. Our current usage doesn't even appear in Merriam Webster dictionary. 65.92.181.190 (talk) 06:04, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

• Keep for now I think. We already have a disambiguation pages at Stratum (disambiguation) and Substrate. I've just placed a hatnote to the latter at Stratum (linguistics) (it already had one to the former). Looking at Google books results, the linguistics use of "substratum" seems more common than all the other uses, but only to the extent that it's borderline as primary topic so were we starting from scratch I'd probably suggest that it redirect to Substrate (there is no point in disambiguating the two separately). However, we aren't starting from scratch - the redirect currently has a massive number of links, almost all of which are clearly to the linguistics topic (I corrected 3 [1]. [2] and [3] that had a geologic meaning, and 3 with biological or marine biological meanings [4], [5] and [6]. Additionally I've left a note at Talk:Index of philosophy articles (R–Z) as I can't figure out which article is correct). The disambigs, redirects and articles for the are a mess though - we have Stratum (disambiguation), Substrate and Strata (disambiguation) as dabs and various articles and redirects from strata, stratum and their sub- and super- prefixed related terms that all need looking at as one whole set. I've run out of time to do anything more now, but if someone could notify the disambiguation, linguistics, geology, biology, marine biology, soil and any other relevant WikiProjects that would be most helpful. Thryduulf (talk) 10:56, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
• Keep per Thryduulf. bd2412 T 18:19, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

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