Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Distinction (social)


 * 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   '''Procedural close. '''. Should belong at RFD. Discussion on where the redirect should occur should take place on the Talk page or on userpages. (non-admin closure) Natg 19 (talk) 01:58, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

Distinction (social)

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Cleanup of ambiguous and confusing article title left over after a move Bhny (talk) 00:18, 11 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Restore redirect This is really an RfD not an AfD. I cannot imagine that this would be wanted as the title of an article distinct from Distinction (sociology). So what harm in keeping it as a redirect? WP:Redirects are cheap Noyster  (talk),  10:14, 17 December 2014 (UTC)


 * The harm is that a Distinction (social), such as a knighthood or Nobel prize, isn't the same as Distinction (sociology), so it would be redirecting to a wrong article. This is what I have previously fixed. Bhny (talk) 13:53, 17 December 2014 (UTC)


 * To my mind "social distinction" would be an odd way to describe a knighthood or award; but OK, an alternative is a redirect to Distinction - the disambiguation page - where readers can make the distinction for themselves Noyster  (talk),  15:32, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica1000 09:46, 18 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Boldly redirected to Award (and added Title to the see also for Prize. I'm reasonably confident that not too many people are ever going to type in "distinction (social)" into the search field. Also created NP social distinction, redirecting same.--Раціональне анархіст (talk) 15:42, 18 December 2014 (UTC)


 * I'm ok with that. Bhny (talk) 15:49, 18 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Comment – True, nobody is going to type "distinction (social)". But they might type "social distinction" and expect to be taken to an article on the term as used by Bourdieu. Looking at the results in Google for "social distinction" I don't see anything about awards. – Margin1522 (talk) 13:45, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment – After checking usage on Wikipedia, "social distinction" does in fact seem to refer mainly to distinctions within society. So after thinking about it, I was bold and redirected both "social distinction" and "distinction (social)" back to Distinction (sociology) instead of Award. – Margin1522 (talk) 00:46, 22 December 2014 (UTC)


 * This page had links from about 20 pages that were all about awards and none about sociology. (I personally went through and removed all the erroneous incoming links) What google says is irrelevant. People who edit will wikipedia will continue to link to "Distinction (social)" when writing about a person getting an award. There really is no reason for this page to exist, but if it stays it should redirect to Awards. Bhny (talk) 01:38, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

First of all, this discussion belong on WP:RFD, not here. AfD is for articles. About the reversion, I'll let it stand because my policy is to avoid edit wars. But I'm having a little trouble following you. The redirect page Distinction (social) currently has 8 incoming links, 2 of which are versions of User:Jokinen/Taste (sociology) and none of which refer to awards. You said that you personally removed erroneous links. Why were they erroneous, and what exactly did you do? – Margin1522 (talk) 02:31, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
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