Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2013 May 13

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This is a list of redirects that have been proposed for deletion or other action on May 13, 2013

WPASK

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 speedy deleted per G2 and because I as a creator, endorse the delete per it's lack of usage, Sadads (talk) 17:19, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

• WPASK → Wikipedia:ASK (links to redirect • history • stats)     [ Closure: keep/delete ] 

Delete. This was originally a redirect to Wikipedia:WikiProject Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms, but following an RfD in January 2011 it was retargetted to WP:ASK which at the same time was converted into a disambiguation page between the WikiProject and it's previous target Wikipedia:Questions (originally Wikipedia:Ask a question). Today it gets between 1 and 4 hits a month, which is precisely the range associated with bot-only visits, meaning it is an essentially unused cross-namespace redirect (CNR). CNRs aren't in themselves necessarily harmful, but they have the potential to be (see WP:CNR) and so this potential for harm needs to be balanced against their usefulness. In this case I don't see a low traffic (20-30 hits/month) project-space disambiguation page as being of much use to users unfamiliar with namespaces (the people who are the primary beneficiaries of CNRs), or indeed anyone else I can think of.
I've had a look for a possible article-space target, and the only thing I can find is that WPA-SK is sometimes used to refer to WPA pre-shared key mode (a type of wifi security) more usually abbreviated WPA-PSK, but that is uncommon, tenuous and not used in the article. Thryduulf (talk) 17:05, 13 May 2013 (UTC)