Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Category talk:Wikipedia soft redirected categories

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

The result of the discussion was:  procedural close, inappropriate venue. No prejudice against speedily renominating this at WP:CfD. However, in response to your query, I will point out that redirects to categories should be soft redirects due to technical issues. (non-admin closure) —  Godsy (TALK CONT ) 14:15, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedia soft redirected categories


I have absolutely no idea what the purpose of this category is, with lots of members but none of them (that I sampled) has any actual pages in. Is it created by some kind of tool? I think it is some kind of parallel universe that serves no purpose. Perhaps it serves some technical purpose but I have no idea what that would be.

To categorise a soft redirect would be useful, but I can't imagine we have forty-seven thousand ways to categorise soft redirects that are not covered by the existing categories we have for other redirects. Si Trew (talk) 10:13, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Oh I think I get it, it's just misnamed. It should be named "Category:Redirects to categories". Si Trew (talk) 10:16, 4 October 2016 (UTC)


 * This is not the reference desk. If you have no ideas, maybe you should go there? Actually, this would belong at WP:CfD, and questions can be asked at WT:CfD. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 12:09, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
 * This is not the place to patronise other good-faith editors either. I got here from assessing where to list at various discussion fora and finding none other amenable; I did not know of that forum. Thank you and the non-admin closer User:Godsy for pointing me in the right direction. Si Trew (talk) 14:48, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
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