Talk:List of houses of the Grand Place

Deletion
Eureka Lott, is this article needed anymore by anyone? It is a misspelling, and the lemma is quite long. The autoadd-feature in the search box will rather make it more complicated to choose from two similar versions: one is perfectly right and the other one is simply not the correct proper name. It is not a "different spelling" of the target name, it is a w-rong sp-elli-ng. All links which linked to this article have been corrected, except the few which came from the user space. --Gunnar (talk) 16:13, 31 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello. Thanks for updating the internal links to this page, but one reason we don't delete redirects after page moves is that we can't account for external links to the page. Since the article was at this location for about a year, there may be links from other sites pointing to it, and we don't want to contribute to WP:EXTERNALROT. If you still think this redirect should be deleted, you're welcome to nominate it at WP:RFD, but I wouldn't expect a discussion there to find consensus for deletion. - Eureka Lott 16:34, 31 October 2022 (UTC)


 * With this backlink checker I count only 1. Maybe other crawlers come to a different result - what is your assessment? The disadvantage of keeping an old and outdated link active, which is not used anymore, is that it may be linked. And by the way, each webmaster team should have a procedure to identify broken links and to correct them as part of a qualtiy assurance procedure. That is the reason why a template like cite web is preferred because the meta information can help to dig out the information somewhere else and to find a replacement link. --Gunnar (talk) 12:11, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * ahrefs found no backlink for https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_houses_of_the_Grand_Place therefore I do not believe there is a very high risk to get rid of this ballast item. Cleaning up would probably cause no trouble. --Gunnar (talk) 12:39, 1 November 2022 (UTC)


 * As I said, you're welcome to bring this to WP:RFD if you think it should be deleted—just be aware that I anticipate that most participants there wouldn't support deletion. Redirects are WP:CHEAP, after all. - Eureka Lott 18:27, 1 November 2022 (UTC)