Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Verlag Jugend & Volk


 * 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 delete under an only slightly creative interoretation of WP:CSD, taking into account R4, hich is identical in effect - cross-project and cross-namespace are sufficiently close aalogues and the template use here so idiosyncratic that this would fail the "WTF" test. Guy (help!) 22:10, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

Verlag Jugend & Volk

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Ill-conceived page which has no actual content, but merely represents an incorrect use of a template to serve a function it isn't designed to serve. This was originally created as a soft redirect, pointing readers to the German Wikipedia's article on this topic in lieu of an English-language article about it -- but soft redirects are not supposed to be used that way in the first place: if we want content about it on the English Wikipedia, then the appropriate answer is to write an article about it in English, not to cross-redirect English speakers to a German article that they can't read as a substitute for an English article. But then that redirect was erased, and instead the page now serves only to tell readers that there's a Wikidata number for this. But that's also not what the "Wikidata redirect" template is for: it is not for creating crosswiki redirects to Wikidata, it is for crossreferencing Wikidata entries to titles that exist as internal redirects to another Wikipedia article. For example, because the word actress is an internal redirect to actor rather than a standalone article about actresses as a distinct topic, the "Wikidata redirect" template is used on that redirect so that it stays connected to its Wikidata entry — but that redirect's target is another Wikipedia article, not the Wikidata entry as a destination in and of itself. But instead, this page exists solely to divert readers to the Wikidata entry as a substitute for any content about it on the English Wikipedia, which is not what the template is for. Bearcat (talk) 20:49, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Germany-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 20:49, 15 January 2020 (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.