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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Ships by the Cook Islands


A tag has been placed on Category:Ships by the Cook Islands requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Sherbourne Street
Given that Sherbourne Street, Suffolk is a redirect to Edwardstone, is it OK to redirect User:Geo Swan/Sherbourne Street, Suffolk to Edwardstone and then history merge it to Sherbourne Street, Suffolk. Note that I am the author of the original article but accept that it doesn't need a separate article.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 13:51, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
 * First my apologies for a lapse. I should have made sure there was a  __NOINDEX__  directive on the page.  I've done so now.  I don't agree Sherbourne Street, Suffolk doesn't merit its own article.


 * Redirects from userspace to articles space are prohibited, so we shouldn't do that. Geo Swan (talk) 16:53, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Regardless of it it does or not the history should be moved back to mainspace. And redirect from userspace are fine, just not the other way round.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 17:06, 26 July 2019 (UTC)