Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2014 November 16

November 16
This is a list of redirects that have been proposed for deletion or other action on November 16, 2014.

Wikipedia:UNI/BOX



 * 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. JohnCD (talk) 21:11, 23 November 2014 (UTC)


 * UNI/BOX → Template:Infobox university (links to redirect • [ history] • )     [ Closure: [ keep]/[ delete] ]

Pointless cross-namespace redirect. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:24, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep looks like a shortcut to me (per the creation edit comment, and the allcaps format). Tag as R from shortcut ; WP:UNI points to the wikiproject, and this is the infobox ("box") for the primary focus of the wikiproject, so the uni-box. However, this should never be transcluded, it should only be used as an editor's shortcut access to the template page, and not as an alias redirect for the template in a transclusion. -- 67.70.35.44 (talk) 05:42, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep per 67.70. Harmless. Ivanvector (talk) 18:34, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
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Write one level down



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 * The result of the discussion was delete. JohnCD (talk) 21:09, 23 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Write one level down → Make technical articles understandable (links to redirect • [ history] • )     [ Closure: [ keep]/[ delete] ]

This doesn't belong in article-land, it would need a Wikipedia in front to be a useful redirect Oiyarbepsy (talk) 04:58, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

This redirect was not to Wikipedia:Make_technical_articles_understandable, as it says above, it was to the subsection Wikipedia:Make_technical_articles_understandable#Write_one_level_down with the same name: "write one level down". Having that as a redirect is both logical and much easier than typing Wikipedia:Make_technical_articles_understandable#Write_one_level_down. If there was some formatting error in the redirect it should obviously be fixed, but the complaint above otherwise makes no sense to me. μηδείς (talk) 05:20, 16 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep obviously, and fix if it was somehow broken. μηδείς (talk) 05:20, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom; μηδείς can create a new redirect at WP:write one level down -- 67.70.35.44 (talk) 06:49, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:25, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Given we are unlikely ever to have an article, Write one level down it seems the prefix is just unnecessary. Is there an actual policy that requires such prefixes for redirects?  If so, can someone point it out?  Thanks. μηδείς (talk) 22:01, 16 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete. Wrong namespace. We should not have mainspace article-titles redirecting to Wikipedia-editing advice. —David Eppstein (talk) 23:11, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Note Some relevant discussion at my my talk page. Oiyarbepsy (talk) 00:37, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete per David - per WP:R #6, newly-created cross-namespace redirects from article space should be deleted. ansh666 01:36, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Okay. I cant's say I understand the reason for item number six under that policy, but go ahead and delete it now at my request as its creator. μηδείς (talk) 02:05, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
 * It's been hotly debated; see WP:CNR for more info. I don't really have too strong an opinion on the matter, but it's been kept in the policy. ansh666 03:52, 17 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete per David Eppstein. Someone made a better point of this recently: rather than no cross-namespace redirects, we shouldn't have redirects from reader-facing namespaces (main, Help:, Portal:, etc) to editor-facing namespaces (Wikipedia:, Template:, etc.). Ivanvector (talk) 18:34, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
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