Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2007 April 10

The Beatles trivia → WikiProject The Beatles/The Beatles' miscellanea
The result of the debate was delete. No longer any incoming links from the mainspace. WjBscribe 14:01, 17 April 2007 (UTC) - cross namespace redirect to a Wikiproject subpage. Not really appropriate. - Ta bu shi da yu 09:15, 10 April 2007 (UTC) 'The above is preserved as the archive of an RfD nomination. Please do not modify it.'
 * deleteUDHSS 14:16, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Inappropriate XNR, and I'm not really sure that article belongs in project space anyway - but that's neither here nor there.  Alternatively, a retargeting to The Beatles may be appropriate.  A r k y a n  • (talk) 17:19, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete after update This is a redirect created as a result of a page move. On purely its own merits as an XNR, it should be deleted, but it has a lot of incoming links which should be updated first, even if they are only on talk pages, to avoid confusion.  &mdash;dgies tc 17:28, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment Given number of incoming links, suggest redirecting to a more appropriate article in the same namespace, e.g. The Beatles, and not deleting --Shirahadasha 01:38, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I would be very interested in why a wikilink to The Beatles trivia in the main article namespace would be necessary... better to delete it, then notice redlinks in articles and correct as necessary. - Ta bu shi da yu 21:59, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. Created as the result of a (two-step) page-move.  No good reason to delete it or to clutter up a lot of edit histories just to fix some redirects.  Rossami (talk) 20:30, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * "Clutter up edit histories"? Are you serious? - Ta bu shi da yu 01:01, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Lists of people in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography
The result of the debate was delete. WjBscribe 14:21, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

53 redirects are listed in the "Redirect" and "User" columns of the table above. All of the redirects are cross-namespace redirects into the "Wikipedia:" namespace. All of them were created as the result of pagemoves from article-space to userspace to project-space. None of them are plausible search terms (the titles are exceedingly long). I strongly doubt anyone would search for a list of people in the DCB whose last names begin with a specific letter (and thus, I don't think they ought to be retargeted anywhere). The article-space redirects may also be confusing and prompt a new user to create a directory-like list.

Given that a pagemove constitutes useful edit history, I have copied the move histories of all 53 articles to the talk pages of their targets (see the column "GFDL" for confirmation). Given this, deleting the redirects should be permissible per the GFDL. I am now bringing all 53 to RFD so that they may be discussed and deleted. -- Black Falcon 00:56, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

One additional point: I intend to go through and disambiguate all significant links to these redirects, so deleting them will not create any broken links. Most have no incoming links except from this discussion, the pagemove histories that I added, and database dumps of cross-namespace redirects. Nothing will be lost if these three classes of links are broken. -- Black Falcon 01:19, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * [[image:Yes check.svg|20px]] Done. I've deliberately left those links which pertain directly to the title beginning with "List of ..." (i.e., the title in the article-space). -- Black Falcon 01:32, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

'The above is preserved as the archive of an RfD nomination. Please do not modify it.'