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March 28[edit]

This is a list of redirects that have been proposed for deletion or other action on March 28, 2016.

Rapelisberger[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 speedy deleted WP:G10 by Keegan. (non-admin closure) -- Tavix (talk) 23:19, 28 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Seems kind of self-explanatory. WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 21:03, 28 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Bootgate[edit]

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The result of the discussion was delete. JohnCD (talk) 19:02, 5 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure this is a valid redirect. I can't find any mentions of him and the term "bootgate". WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 20:38, 28 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete - Brady suffered an ankle injury requiring a walking boot, right around the time that this redirect was created, but I don't see any evidence that this was ever referred to as "bootgate". -gate implies a scandal, such that this could possibly be WP:G10. More recently it seems to be a reference to something Jeb Bush said about Marco Rubio's choice of footwear, but it would be silly to point to either of them. Just delete it. Ivanvector 🍁 (talk) 18:46, 29 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Q️[edit]

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The result of the discussion was Delete. This is both a WP:SNOW deletion and a speedy deletion as vandalism. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 14:58, 29 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The title is the letter Q followed by 3 unprintable characters. Nothing on-wiki links to this, so unless I'm missing something very niche, this seems like a redirect that can never be hit. See also:
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  • Comment - I don't understand what's happening here, as far as I can tell there's nothing after the Q (no extra characters show up in the URL) yet it's definitely a separate page. Anyone? Ivanvector 🍁 (talk) 22:34, 28 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • See the full url: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Q%EF%B8%8F&redirect=no and you see the non-printable characters that follow the Q. They won't show up anywhere else, and nobody can accidentally (or intentionally for that matter) type them... CrowCaw 23:57, 28 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
that's the UTF-8 of BYTE ORDER MARK. Si Trew (talk) 04:30, 29 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, they don't even show up in the URL for me, even in preview. I tried in Win7 and Ubuntu 15.10. Strange. Ivanvector 🍁 (talk) 14:44, 29 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Also, one of the several "useless redirect" accounts I track in past made use of such non-printables. I don't have the sorcery to look through deleted revisions though, so can't pinpoint the one. I do think recent CU's have shown that they've evolved their tactics though, so maybe just CSD R3? CrowCaw 00:00, 29 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Well, this is certainly something you don't see every day; how did you even find these? My vote is delete all unless there is some hidden utility to these. -- Notecardforfree (talk) 02:46, 29 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete all as WP:RFD#D5 nonsense. Si Trew (talk) 04:37, 29 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • The invisible character is U+FE0F ️ VARIATION SELECTOR-16. Despite what others have said, it is not the byte order mark, and it is one character, not three. These are invalid variation sequences and as such should be deleted. Gorobay (talk) 13:10, 29 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - clearly useless, probably to the point of vandalism. Ivanvector 🍁 (talk) 14:44, 29 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Daech[edit]

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The result of the discussion was keep. JohnCD (talk) 19:00, 5 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

No relationship with the French language. SSTflyer 16:40, 28 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  • keep this a transliteration of the Arabic abbreviation into Latin lettering, and is also used in English [1][2][3] -- 70.51.46.39 (talk) 04:37, 29 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. This is a plausible transliteration of "داعش‎" and 70.51 has provided several examples of this spelling in other sources. -- Notecardforfree (talk) 04:45, 29 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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IGIL[edit]

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The result of the discussion was no consensus, default to delete. There's a split of opinion between deleting and retargeting to igil. Deryck C. 17:22, 6 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

No relationship with the Russian language. Retarget to Igil. SSTflyer 16:32, 28 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  • Retarget or delete: both have the same effect since Igil exists, and this isn't an acronym for anything in English. Ivanvector 🍁 (talk) 16:35, 28 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Changed to just delete, per Tavix. The search engine and URL parser automatically try the lowercase page title, so this redirect is objectively useless. Ivanvector 🍁 (talk) 14:45, 29 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Playmate of the Year[edit]

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The result of the discussion was target both at Playboy Playmate#Playmate of the Year. Deryck C. 17:23, 6 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The abbreviation and its expansion have different targets, which is rather WP:XY and thus a candidate for WP:RFD#D2 confusing. But I'm not suggesting deletion, rather a retarget of one or the other.

Playboy Playmate pipes Playmate of the Year as "PMOY", which is a bit confusing but easily fixed (the words before it are, in fact, "Playmate of the Year"). Similarly List of Playmates of the Year ( → List of Playboy Playmates of the Year) is in Playboy Playmates#See also section but should probably (also) be at the top of Playboy Playmate#Playmate of the Year as a {{main}} or {{see also}} or something.

Even if I were to make those changes to that target, it would be confusing from a search (or in other articles) that the abbreviation and its expansion target different things. Retarget one or the other: but which? Si Trew (talk) 15:24, 28 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Work life[edit]

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2016 April 6#Work life

Splot[edit]

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The result of the discussion was target both to List of Humble Bundles#2011 and add hatnote at destination. Deryck C. 03:57, 7 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect should be re-targeted to Splott, a suburb of Cardiff. Redirect was to Splott when created in 2009. Changed to [[Humble Bundle#Humble Frozenbyte Bundle]] in 2011. #Humble Frozenbyte Bundle section of page no longer even exists, and Splot is not mentioned anywhere in the current revision of the article. Redirect is no longer relevant in any way to target, so original, still-extant homonym should be the new target. Calavicci (talk) 01:58, 28 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  • Oh, cripes. Splot (video game) is an "Unreleased Pre-Order" video game that was one of five games in the 2011 "Humble Frozenbyte Bundle" which sold 183,000 copies at $5 each. Can't we speedy such ridiculousness? wbm1058 (talk) 03:00, 28 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Retarget the first to List of Humble Bundles#2011 as {{R to list entry}}, and keep the second (which I've tagged as that and as {{R from unnecessary disambiguation}}). While it's a reasonable typo for "Splott", typing "Splot" will find "Splott" easily enough in a search (in fact, when I type in "splo" then "Splott"comes up first). Can't CSD as it has history. Si Trew (talk) 07:29, 28 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment. If the redirect exists, then typing "Splot" in the search box and hitting Enter will go straight to the redirect page → target, and the live search may not appear for users who limit Javascript, notably those using text-mode browsers. Not advocating either way. Calavicci (talk) 15:33, 28 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Yup, a hatnote {{redirect|the suburb of Cardiff|Splott}} at the target would make sense. Si Trew (talk) 15:44, 28 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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15 (song)[edit]

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2016 April 6#15 (song)

Untitled Woody Allen film[edit]

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The result of the discussion was delete. JohnCD (talk) 18:53, 5 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Article was created before the film has a name, then moved when the name was released, turning this into a redirect. Now the redirect should be deleted as it is an unplausible search term. No one will search "Untitled Woody Allen film" if they want to look up this film or any of Allen's other works. They would search the name instead. 173.3.76.193 (talk) 00:07, 28 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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River Road Entertainment[edit]

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The result of the discussion was keep. JohnCD (talk) 18:54, 5 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

There is no mention of this company on the target page, and so no indication of what links them or why. The redirect was added a few days ago by a now-banned user here. Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi 16:03, 28 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep. A quick Google search revealed that Bill Pohlad is the president and founder of the company. Not much else substantial, so I don't feel like I can create a new article worth anything in the time I have, but I did add a note about this on the page for Bill Pohlad. The redirect is now relevant and at least somewhat helpful. Calavicci (talk) 16:37, 28 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep - I found the same thing as Calavicci. I don't think the two would be separately notable. Ivanvector 🍁 (talk) 16:40, 28 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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