Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2012 May 19

May 19
This is a list of redirects that have been proposed for deletion or other action on May 19, 2012

Alcohol-related traffic crashes



 * 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 Retarget to Driving under the influence. Ruslik_ Zero  12:20, 17 June 2012 (UTC)


 * → Alcohol-related traffic crashes in the United States (links to redirect • [ history] • )     [ Closure: [ keep]/[ delete] ]

Was only linked to by one article (however that article was alcoholism - I believe that this explains the traffic to it and the next few days we'll see essentially no traffic) and I have redirected that link in that article. Disagree with current redirect, to Alcohol-related traffic crashes in the United States because the US is not the world. Egg  Centri  c  22:31, 19 May 2012 (UTC) '''Note: Since the link in alcoholism has been redirected, no one has visited this redirect. Fine to assume that if external links exist, they are not particularly popular!''' Egg   Centri  c  14:33, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
 * retarget. This is a very useful title for us to have, even without considering that as it has existed since 2006 there are highly likely to be lots of external links. The question then is what is the best place, and I think Driving under the influence is probably the best we currently have, although it's more a summary of the laws around the world rather than the effects/causes/statistics of the crashes. There is a little bit at Drunk drivers, but that article needs even more work. Thryduulf (talk) 00:51, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep. No objection to retargetting but I am not aware of a current article that is definitively better.  As Thryduulf notes, the alternatives suggested so far are more about laws than physical consequences.  Rossami (talk) 14:30, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete and/or turn into an article. I don't think any of the available targets are appropriate, but an article on the subject might be, and the benefit of having a redlink encouraging a future article outweighs the problems arising from there probably being external links. – hysteria18 (talk) 14:26, 22 May 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.