User talk:Sveinbjornpalsson

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 * Page blanking is generally inappropriate. Content should be fixed or replaced, but there is no need to remove an existing redirect until the replacement content is written. —Ost (talk) 16:47, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Also, apologies for the late welcome. I noticed your small number of edits, but had not noticed how long you had been around! —Ost (talk) 17:01, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

Hi —Ost. I removed the reference to the typeface Mercury because (1) the typeface that the redirect links to is not the main typeface known by that name today. That honor goes to Hoefler & Frere-Jones' Mercury. That typeface has the distinction of having been added to the collection of MoMA, a rare honor for a typeface. The redirected Wikipedia page does not appear in the first three pages of a google search (just checked), which should speak to the relevance of the typeface under that name. The typeface that wikipedia now references is best known as Forelle. It has not merited it's own wikipedia page. I have extremely high trust in the editors of Fonts in Use, they are all named and known in type design circles as historians. Furthermore, no digital versions of Forelle have been published as "Mercury". I'm not really interested in doing a Mercury page, making new pages is so hard, I save it up for subjects I love. But that redirect isn't very helpful, I think it should go elsewhere, for instance to the Hoefler page.

— Sveinbjornpalsson (talk) 19:33, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I would suggest that you nominate at Redirects for Discussion with an explanation like you have above, to start a discussion about the appropriate target or need for the redirect. —Ost (talk) 19:45, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

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