Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2006 December 17

Fry Mumia → Mumia Abu-Jamal
The result of the debate was Deleted. -- JLaTondre 00:11, 25 December 2006 (UTC) Was deleted in January. Redir created in October on grounds that "searching this term brings up AFD and a talk subpage". Don't most deleted articles have AFD's, without sugsequent need for a redir to a related article? The main does not even contain the phrase "fry mumia", so it's not at all clear how a redirect from that phrase to the article is helpful. Indeed, without context, the redir sounds like an endorsement of the idea. I think this was a t-shirt slogan or some such, which was apparently not consequential enough to merit a mention in the Mumia article. Derex 01:47, 18 December 2006 (UTC) 'The above is preserved as the archive of an RfD nomination. Please do not modify it.'
 * Delete as nom. Derex 01:47, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Question: Are there any NPOV problems with deleting this redirect yet keeping Free Mumia? --Dgies 03:38, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Seems like a separate question to me, as each redir should stand on its own merits. "free mumia" does appear several times in the article, whereas "fry mumia" does not. So, at least there's an apparent contextual motive for the "free" redir. Derex 05:05, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Identity management system attack → Self-service password reset
The result of the debate was Deleted. -- JLaTondre 00:12, 25 December 2006 (UTC) Very loosely related concepts; likely to be confusing -- intgr 04:56, 17 December 2006 (UTC) 'The above is preserved as the archive of an RfD nomination. Please do not modify it.'
 * Delete Confusing and only incoming link should have been rephrased, so I just did it. --Dgies 21:00, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

FORTIFY SOURCE → GCC
The result of the debate was Kept. -- JLaTondre 03:10, 27 December 2006 (UTC) It is unclear what is meant by "FORTIFY SOURCE"; it currently redirects to GCC, but the GNU Compiler Collection appears to have nothing to do with it intgr 03:06, 17 December 2006 (UTC)


 * FORTIFY_SOURCE is a compiler directive for GCC which attempts to discover some buffer overflows through static analysis. See the Compile Time Buffer Checks (FORTIFY_SOURCE) section. --Gwern (contribs) 03:26 17 December 2006 (GMT)


 * Right; as we don't document FORTIFY_SOURCE on the GCC article, it definitely should not redirect there. So: (1) remove the redirect; or (2) mention FORTIFY_SOURCE on static code analysis and redirect there. -- intgr 05:03, 17 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I don't think removing the redirect is a good option. It's a valid thing to look up. Redirecting to static code analysis is not a good idea either, because this is just one compiler's implementation of a small subset of such techniques and not particularly novel. If it were mentioned in GCC, would that suffice? --Gwern (contribs) 05:35 17 December 2006 (GMT)


 * Now that you mention it, yes, the GNU Compiler Collection article would probably be a much better place to mention it, possibly with a reference from static code analysis. -- intgr 18:15, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

'The above is preserved as the archive of an RfD nomination. Please do not modify it.'
 * comment FORTIFY SOURCE is on the list Requested articles/Applied arts and sciences/Computer science, computing, and Internet and it seems likely that this redirect was created to resolve this. Wrs1864 12:45, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's why I initially proposed this template for deletion; the target article didn't cover the subject. -- intgr 23:30, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. It's now mentioned in the target article. --- RockMFR 20:06, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep per RockMFR. -- intgr 23:30, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Repulsive → Attractive
The result of the debate was 'Re-targeted to Repulsion (disambiguation). -- JLaTondre 00:14, 25 December 2006 (UTC) Redirects to the opposite of what a user might expect, seems to only exist because nobody knows what else to do with the page. It's only linked to by one page, Maglev train, which doesn't seem to intend Attractive as the target. PsyMar 00:36, 17 December 2006 (UTC) 'The above is preserved as the archive of an RfD nomination. Please do not modify it.'
 * Converted to disambiguation --Dgies 18:11, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Retarget to new Repulsion (disambiguation) --Dgies 18:20, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Retarget per Dgies. delldot | talk 18:52, 18 December 2006 (UTC)