Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2012 June 3

June 3
This is a list of redirects that have been proposed for deletion or other action on June 3, 2012

Persoanl finance



 * The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more redirects. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the redirect's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.


 * The result of the discussion was keep. Thryduulf (talk) 15:01, 27 June 2012 (UTC)


 * → Personal finance (links to redirect • [ history] • )     [ Closure: [ keep]/[ delete] ]

Originated from an erroneous edit, has minimal edit history, unlikely to be useful. Reify-tech (talk) 16:20, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
 * The edit history shows that this was originally created in 2005 as an act of probable vandalism - random posting of content under an irrelevant title. It was speedy-deleted, then re-created.  A different editor resolved and permanently pre-empted the title by turning it into the current redirect.  (Back then it was not possible to protect a page without any content.)  The page has existed since without any obvious controversy or confusion.  The vandal is long gone and we do now have the option to salt the page but I believe that would be overkill.  The redirect is a straight transposition of two letters in the title and it is a transposition that is statistically common among QWERTY keyboard users.  There is some small benefit to keeping the redirect and zero benefit to deleting it.  Keep but tag with unprintworthy.  Rossami (talk) 23:19, 4 June 2012 (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.

Wikipedia:SMS



 * The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more redirects. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the redirect's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.


 * The result of the discussion was Keep as is. Thryduulf (talk) 15:03, 27 June 2012 (UTC)


 * → Help:Dummy edit (links to redirect • [ history] • )     [ Closure: [ keep]/[ delete] ]

The dummy edit page suggested using edit summaries to send messages. I removed all such suggestions from that page, as this is a terrible idea. We are supposed to keep discussions and messages where people can find them later, and an edit summary is absolutely not the place for this (not to mention that no one expects to see messages there and they won't see it). Since the destination no longer says anything about SMS, this redirect should be deleted or maybe retargeted. D O N D E groovily  Talk to me  15:52, 3 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment Perhaps Template:Shoutbox sidebar could be the target? D O N D E groovily   Talk to me  16:02, 3 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep as is. The use of edit summaries to send short messages to others has a long and respectable history. I've reverted the change to Help:Dummy edit, as this use has been a part of that page since 2005.  Since I think this use should remain part of Help:Dummy edit, I think redirecting WP:SMS to Help:Dummy edit makes sense, and should stay as is. --Floquenbeam (talk) 20:33, 5 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep as is. Dummy edits are used to explain edit(s) made immediately prior to the dummy edit. So someone later examining the edit history and wondering "huh? why did they do that?" quickly sees the dummy edit and "oh I see. that's why!"  Perhaps an editor accidentally stumbled on the enter key before they were finished entering their edit summary. Don't make later editors wade through the talk page in search of an explanation. —Wbm1058 (talk) 17:48, 12 June 2012 (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.