Category talk:Redirects from people

From a person
The current lead: "The pages in this category are redirects from a person or persons to a related article that includes the person(s)."

I believe that should be restricted to person, singular.

These pages are all. I believe they should all be possible biographies. (It should be true that) each of these redirects may properly be placed in substantial biographical categories such as any of the.

The four small subcategories are valid in this sense. The one big subcat shows that a great deal of maintenance is lacking --"needed" in one ordinary sense-- because it contains many pages that represent impersonal things: ; ; ;. At a glance I see no listings of plural "persons" pages.

--P64 (talk) 19:51, 21 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Later this winter or spring I moved about 300 redirect pages out of this category primarily by diffusion to one of the 5 redirect subcategories. At the moment, months later, 209 pages are here.
 * In the four smaller subcategories i visited all(?) pages and confirmed/corrected/improved their redirect categorization, commonly among other improvements.
 * The large subcat (now 809 pages) probably includes a few hundred stage names of, as I guess that half of the 300 i removed/diffused from this category were American rappers. I did not give the same attention to them as to the half i removed/diffused elsewhere and i did not systematically visit any of pages that were previously down in subcat {Redirects from members}.
 * --P64 (talk) 17:52, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
 * One of the systematic "other improvements" is that all pages (except recent adds by other editors, i presume) are placed here using template Redr, i.e.  with some explanation by parameter e0 or e1. --P64 (talk) 19:10, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

Fatalities of mass shootings
Weeks or months ago, i added many personal redirects to category Victims of the Virginia Tech shooting, and diffused them from some article categories to that one. This week I created parallel categories for victims of three other mass shootings in the U.S., so there are four that I know. Three of these categories are complete for fatalities in the mass shootings and none includes a page representing any non-fatal victim; I suppose that pages were created systematically for fatalities only. Sandy Hook is not complete for victims killed in the school shooting; four of the first-grade students are not represented, evidently because their pagenames would need disambiguation (Charlotte Bacon, Jesse Lewis, Jack Pinto, Benjamin Wheeler).
 * (32 pages) --27 redirects
 * (13) --12 redirects
 * (22) --21 redirects
 * (12) --12 redirects

All 79 [72] of the redirects [among 79 pages] in these four article categories have been diffused from the relevant article categories such as and. All remain in this category because we have no relevant redirects subcategory such as {Redirects from victims}, broadly, or {Redirects from fatalities in mass shootings}, narrowly.

This winter and spring I visited all of the pages in this redirect category and removed/diffused more than half of them (see above). The 79 redirects discussed here evidently represent 40% of the pages that remain here (210 as i write). Several other pages represent murder victims, but no victims of mass murders if i recall correctly. --P64 (talk) 19:04, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

One more created this hour: Those are personal redirects for all 6 fatalities. Diffused from which now retains no redirect pages.
 * (6 pages) --6 redirects

As I depart on Sunday, these five victims categories --four new this weekend-- contain 83 [78] of the 220 {R from person}. --P64 (talk) 20:44, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
 * (edited by strikeout and brackets to count the numbers of redirects, rather than all pages in these five categories) --P64 (talk) 17:41, 19 July 2015 (UTC)