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This is a list of redirects that have been proposed for deletion or other action on May 23, 2013

Aurolac

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. Also, redirects don't have to have neutral point of view. ~Crazytales (talk) (edits) 06:45, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

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

Originally tagged as speedy, but declined. Aurolac is (or was) a commercial brand name for an industrial product manufactured in Romania. As shown in the film Children Underground, it was frequently abused as an inhalant. However, I still believe creating a redirect from a commercial brand name to the article about inhalant abuse violates NPOV, as it seems to negatively state that that's the only use it ever has/had. - Who is John Galt? ✉ 17:47, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

• Aurolac was a synthetic paint thinner used in Romania; I believe it is no longer manufactured. It was so popular with huffers that the name became the Romanian word for someone who huffs inhalants (usually in the plural, aurolaci). We could have a disambiguation page at Aurolac also providing an article about the synthetic paint thinner itself or about synthetic paint thinners in general (I don't know enough about it to write it), but people reading about the problems of Romanian youth are very likely to run into the term aurolaci (it often fails to be translated to an equivalent English-language colloquialism), and I think the link is entirely appropriate, certainly not amounting to anything like an attack. - Jmabel | Talk 19:17, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
• Keep The redirect doesn't "state that that's the only use it ever has/had". It simply links to an article where there is some information about Aurolac, and so is likely to be useful to people looking for that information. JamesBWatson (talk) 19:11, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Do you disagree that it's a violation of NPOV to create a plain redirect from an industrial brand name to an article about substance abuse? - Who is John Galt? ✉ 20:25, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

Yes, of course I disagree. To try once again to make clear the point that I seem to have failed to make first time, there is an article which has content relating to a particular subject. Someone searching on Wikipedia for information about that subject might, therefore, find it useful to be directed to that article. Therefore a redirect to that article may well be useful for some people looking for information on that subject. There is no point of view involved there: it is simply providing a link that may be useful to some people. JamesBWatson (talk) 08:06, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

• Keep per Jmabel. Borderline {{R with possibilities}}. --BDD (talk) 18:37, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

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Blurred Lines

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The result of the discussion was wrong process, being handled at WP:RM. Thryduulf (talk) 09:40, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

It is now not possible to access the Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke featuring T.I. and Pharrell because it redirects to Robin Thicke's page. This is why am I requesting for it to be removed!

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Lucifer1998 (talk • contribs) 22:27, 23 May 2013‎ (UTC)

• Speedy close already being discussed at the move request at Talk:Blurred Lines (song) ; and inaccessibility of the article can be fixed with a hatnote at the target. -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 04:35, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

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