Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2018 August 12

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This is a list of redirects that have been proposed for deletion or other action on August 12, 2018.

Regular Octogon

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2018 August 20#Regular Octogon

Critical Acclaim

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. --BDD (talk) 19:07, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

• Critical Acclaim → Avenged Sevenfold (album)  (talk · links · history · stats)     [ Closure: keep/retarget/delete ] 

Critical acclaim is a generic term. I believe the proper title for this redirect should be Critical Acclaim (song). Critical acclaim I believe is a legitimate search term for something linked to either Critic or Review but I'm not sure which. Dom from Paris (talk) 18:20, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

• Keep as I cannot find any other proper nouns called "Critical Acclaim" in Wikipedia, and the WP:DIFFCAPS is sufficient to distinguish the proper noun Critical Acclaim from the generic phrase critical acclaim. Creating critical acclaim to point to some appropriate target would help readers who use the case-insensitive search box, but retargeting title-case Critical Acclaim to that same target would be confusing to editors intending to link the song. 59.149.124.29 (talk) 18:52, 12 August 2018 (UTC)
• Keep per the ip above. The best target for a generic critical acclaim redirect would seem to be either critic or critique, although neither is perfect. Criticism is a poorly-written article that feels like it would be unhelpful as a starting point for someone using this search term. I'm undecided whether it would be a good redirect or not (as a point to consider, "critical acclaim" and "critically acclaimed" were both deleted at Wiktionary so we can't soft redirect there), but the capitalised version certainly is. If we do have a generic redirect then we should add a hatnote to wherever it points at Avenged Sevenfold (album). Thryduulf (talk) 22:31, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

General critical acclaim should go to critic as it's used for media work rather than stuff about discourses. The searcher can look for Critique from that hatnote. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 21:32, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

• Keep as a caps version usually implies media (song, album) or organization. There aren't any books with that title, probably because that would be like naming your book Bestseller. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 20:49, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
  • Which P. G. Wodehouse did. Thryduulf (talk) 00:13, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page.