Talk:Russian Ambassador to Turkey

Redirect to Karlov
The rationale for directing this to Andrei Karlov is to aide readers in finding the relevant article on current events. I can appreciate this but it is a bit WP:RECENTISM and not consistent with the rest of WP. It's also not technically accurate as a dead person cannot be the holder of an office. Please observe how similar links to Russia Ambassador to North Korea in the infobox redirect to a list of persons, not the latest officeholder. In both cases there is no article about the ambassadorship per se, so it links to a list. Qzd (talk) 22:43, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
 * One of the strengths of Wikipedia is helping readers find objective content about current events. This redirect has more utility right now if it redirects to Karlov's bio. The guideline {WP:R) says "Redirects are used to help people arrive more quickly at the page they want to read". Someone looking for a list of Russian ambassadors to Turkey will not have difficulty finding the article on Wikipedia by simply typing "list of Russian ambassadors to Turkey" into the search box. I have no objection to pointing this back to the list article once a new ambassador is appointed.22:52, 19 December 2016 (UTC)