Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Shortpages/Mythology/Chaldean


 * 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 no consensus, default to keep--Aervanath (talk) 06:08, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Shortpages/Mythology/Chaldean
Article's intent is redundant with Category:Middle East mythology stubs and appear to be abandoned as a going concern, anyway - last update 2004?? -- Cander0000 (talk) 03:24, 6 March 2009 (UTC) 
 * There are a bunch more of these; see Special:Prefixindex/Wikipedia:Shortpages. Delete all as redundant to Special:Shortpages, as well as severely outdated. Zetawoof(&zeta;) 07:39, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
 * A blanket statement without looking at the individual pages doesn't help. Several of these pages most definitely should not be deleted.  Shortpages/How to update has information useful to people who might want to process database dumps.  Shortpages itself has useful history and talk page discussion, and should stay as the redirect that it already is.  There's no real reason to delete the other redirects with history behind them, either.  Redirects are harmless here, and deletion only serves to increase the database size, remember. Indeed, if -Ril-'s creations at Special:Prefixindex/Wikipedia:Shortpages/Mythology/ are redudant to categories, simply make them into redirects, too.  Redirect them to the category pages that they are redundant to.  Redirects are cheap, and this is the project namespace.  Cross-namespace redirects from the project namespace to a maintenance category do not worry us in the ways that cross-namespace redirects from article space would.  Uncle G (talk) 01:08, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Aervanath (talk) 05:51, 12 March 2009 (UTC)


 * blank and Redirect Shortpages/Mythology/Chaldean and its talk page to Talk:Mesopotamian mythology. It is an old working page for a subject that is now best covered at Mesopotamian mythology.  There may be some attrribution history that should be kept.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 09:26, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
 * No, on second thought, this page contains a table of links to orphan articles. Keep until the orphans are dealt with.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 09:29, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep per SmokeyJoe. This may be very old, but it still has uses - some of these pages are linked from nowhere else. Robofish (talk) 18:29, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
 * If that's the case, they've been effectively orphaned for a long time now. If the list itself is needed somewhere else, then go ahead and copy it, but the rest of the data is five years old. Zetawoof(&zeta;) 04:54, 16 March 2009 (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 page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.