Talk:Masd

MASD (disambiguation)
MASD is also an abbreviation for moisture-associated skin damage - a term that is frequently used in medical literature, e.g. here or there. The second and third meanings that pop up in a google search are Mukwonago Area School District and Montrose Area School District, both long before the only one listed here. The Urban Dictionary has "Mutually Assured Self Destruction" as explanation for MASD. In summary, this redirect does not reflect the multiple usages of the abbreviation in real life. --Kolya (talk) 18:19, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
 * This redirect isn't supposed to "reflect the multiple usages of the abbreviation in real life". It is supposed to get Wikipedia users to the most appropriate available article., see WP:REDIRECT.  That doesn't even have to be very appropriate, just the best we have.  It is not an article, it is not a list (of acronyms, in this case), it is not a "wishlist" of articles that we might want to have one day (although some redlinks are appropriate in dab pages), it is most certainly not a complete lookup table of everything you might think could be abbreviated to MASD but is never going to be a Wikipedia article.  Even if there were other Wikipedia articles that might be a target for MASD (or Masd), and I didn't find any, then WP:PRIMARYTOPIC means we might still keep this redirect (and possibly also have Masd (disambiguation)), although "Mohawk Area School District" doesn't seem like a particularly strong primary topic.  Note the hatnote at the top of that page, pointing out Masdevallia which was once the redirect target.  Also note that Masd is not the same page as MASD (although some searches may treat them as equivalent), and they might both exist and be different if there were a good primary topic for "Masd" and a list of MASD acronyms.  In summary (sic), what you thought was a no-brainer is far from it.  Even when you really really think it is a no-brainer, take a breath and think about the thousands of web pages (maybe, maybe not in this case) that have linked to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masd over the last 10 years and whether you really want to break them.  Lithopsian (talk) 18:55, 1 September 2019 (UTC)