Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2007 October 11

G. Pompeius Trogus → Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus
The result of the debate was Kept. -- JLaTondre 13:50, 20 October 2007 (UTC) Unlikely search term; the abbreviation of Gnaeus is Cn., and this will only be useful to people who know to abbreviate praenomina and not that exception. Since there are only a couple dozen praenomina, and this is one of the more common, this will be very few people. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 05:17, 11 October 2007 (UTC) 'The above is preserved as the archive of an RfD nomination. Please do not modify it.'
 * Keep – albeit a moderately unlikely search term, the redirect does make sense, obviously, and there's no compelling reason to get rid of it. Redirects are cheap.  Melsaran  (talk) 18:36, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, yes it's probably used by few people, but it is used nonetheless. This means it's useful, despite its limited use. And as Mel said, redirects are cheap. - Mtmelendez (Talk 00:15, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep - Not too likely to be useful, but at least somewhat plausible. Won't do any harm. — xDanielx T/C 04:27, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep many old texts taken verbatim into Wikipedia have various Roman names given in this form. Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology and Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, as well as the Catholic Encyclopedia are among them. Carlossuarez46 05:31, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Amboim → Porto Amboim
The result of the debate was delete. WjBscribe 16:33, 24 October 2007 (UTC) Amboim and Porto Amboim are two seperate municipalities within the same province (Cuanza Sul). Source: Angolan-UK embassy, page on Cuanza Sul. Unfortunately I cannot find anything to use as sources to create a stub with that is related to the former and not the latter, so deletion is probably best in order to serve as a redlink until someone with knowledge of it can create a stub or an article. AllynJ (talk | contribs) 07:41, 11 October 2007 (UTC) 'The above is preserved as the archive of an RfD nomination. Please do not modify it.'
 * Delete I'll take the nom's word for it, but I don't know the details. Shalom (Hello • Peace) 00:28, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Abrahamic religions (temp) → Abrahamic religion
The result of the debate was delete after history merge. WjBscribe 10:40, 25 October 2007 (UTC) Useless temporary page that was never deleted --Closedmouth 13:47, 11 October 2007 (UTC) 'The above is preserved as the archive of an RfD nomination. Please do not modify it.'
 * Delete per nom – temporary test page, unneeded now (the redirect doesn't make sense, as Abrahamic religion isn't "temporary").  Melsaran  (talk) 18:37, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep this very old page (Sept 2001) to preserve the attribution history of the destination article. In this case, the page was moved back before the WikiMedia software also transferred the edit history so this is the only record we have of the edits before June 2002.  The redirect was created as part of a three-step pagemove to fix the article's title (so it's not the typical "temp" page).  If someone really wants to, you could satisfy GFDL with a history-merge but that doesn't seem worth the trouble.  The redirect is not harming anything where it is.  Rossami (talk) 02:48, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Nostalgia Wikipedia is used to keep early history of WP. Actually, it is here. Pavel Vozenilek 00:17, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I can't find any documentation about Nostalgia Wiki - who maintains it, what commitments have been made to keep the history, whether the set-point will be updated, etc. Without answers to these (and probably other) questions, I don't believe that we can rely upon it for GFDL compliance.  Do you know whether or where these issues have been discussed about that project?  Rossami (talk) 00:20, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
 * History merge into Abrahamic religion to satisfy GFDL compliance, but with one complete history section instead of two fragmented ones. Grace notes T § 06:50, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Moriss Dancing → Morris dance
The result of the debate was Kept. -- JLaTondre 13:52, 20 October 2007 (UTC) Redirect was created by Xanhoi12 for the sole purpose of making it difficult to spot incorrect information that this user added to the Nobel Prize in Literature article. –panda 23:24, 11 October 2007 (UTC) 'The above is preserved as the archive of an RfD nomination. Please do not modify it.'
 * Speedy-delete as vandalism-cleanup. Rossami (talk) 02:39, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
 * It has enough simultaneous errors (spelling, capitalization, grammar) that I question it's value as a redirect but I don't feel strongly enough to dispute the arguments below. Count me as "neutral" for now.  Rossami (talk) 20:46, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. The term Morris dancing (note the small difference in spelling) is actually a commonly used term for Morris dance, so, I propose to leave the redirect as is as a R from misspelling. Yes, the redirect was created as part of a vandalism mini-spree, but its history reveals that it wasn't linked to an improper page, just to Morris dance. And although it contains mixed capitalization, it really does no harm, since it's reasonably plausible that a person searches with the misspelled, mixed capitalized term. I don't see any other possible use for the redirect term, so why don't we just leave it as is. - Mtmelendez (Talk 00:09, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep as a legitimate redirect from an alternative capitalisation. It doesn't really matter with what intent it was created, what matters is is that the redirect makes perfect sense and is useful. I see no compelling reason to delete it.  Melsaran  (talk) 01:58, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
 * The above comments sound reasonable to me. How do you withdraw a nomination? –panda 16:57, 19 October 2007 (UTC)