Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alea (Thessaly)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was redirect to Halos. Editors who would like to consider a different redirect target can have a discussion on the article talk page. Liz Read! Talk! 05:18, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

Alea (Thessaly)

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Mass-created by in violation of WP:MEATBOT: non-existent village apparently invented by an ancient author in confusion with Alea (Arcadia) and/or Halos. Prod contested. Avilich (talk) 02:03, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Greece. Avilich (talk) 02:03, 5 August 2022 (UTC)


 * The talk page discussion at this article already indicated the correct course of action to take. This discussion is moot.  It would have taken five minutes to follow that course of action instead of nominating the article for deletion and verbally abusing another editor.  P Aculeius (talk) 21:19, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

Redirect to Halos, as the apparent error in Stephanus is already mentioned there. 𝕱𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖎𝖆 (talk) 03:34, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Redirect is not suitable since there are two possible targets. Avilich (talk) 15:06, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
 * There's no such policy—many redirects could point to more than one target, but point to the one most likely to be wanted—and usually that target mentions the other one either in the body or a hatnote. Here the place meant by Stephanus was Halos, which we know as he was cataloguing places in Thessaly—not Arcadia.  So if someone runs across a mention of Alea in Thessaly, the place referred to is almost certain to be Halos, not Alea in Arcadia.  But for the sake of argument, if either place were reasonably probable, then the correct course of action would be to turn this stub article into a disambiguation page—not to delete it!  P Aculeius (talk) 20:07, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

Redirect per. We already have a disambiguation for the more generic search term Alea, which could (and should) be adjusted to explain the redirect. And as for the redirect having two targets: I doubt even many people are searching for the actual ancient Arcadia by explictily typing "Alea (Thessaly)" into the search field, and then get annoyed when they don't end up on "Alea (Arcadia)". I mean... how. --LordPeterII (talk) 21:28, 11 August 2022 (UTC) Relisting comment: Relisting as there is not a consensus about the redirect target. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 03:49, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Redirect to Halos. T8612  (talk) 07:22, 12 August 2022 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.