The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Redirect. — xaosflux ^Talk 13:02, 28 June 2008 (UTC) reply

Empty talk pages of redirects

They are all empty talk pages of redirects to the List of General Hospital characters. They all have trivial edit history, not required for GFDL purposes. Initially the majority was nominated for speedy deletion under G8 (blanktalk) but since they are doubts this is ok, I am going for an MfD.See the discussions in Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Empty talk pages and speedy deletion and Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion#Empty talk pages and speedy deletion. As you may can see some of them are already deleted after G8 by administrators. The list below is incomplete. Magioladitis ( talk) 16:49, 24 June 2008 (UTC) reply

• Delete all, (or at the very least, redirect) per my reasoning in this AN thread. – xenocidic ( talk) 17:49, 24 June 2008 (UTC) reply
• Redirect all to Talk:List of General Hospital characters. While we could delete these, it's always possible that someone could stumble across one somehow and edit it to ask a question, make a suggestion, etc. Those sorts of things should go on the talk page of the redirect target, not the talk page of the redirect (unless it's about the redirect, but those don't usually happen). And if they have meaningful history, we shouldn't be deleting them. Cheers. -- lifebaka ( Talk - Contribs) 17:57, 24 June 2008 (UTC) reply

comment I made a correction: I meant "Meaningless, not important, trivial edit history" Cheers, Magioladitis ( talk) 18:05, 24 June 2008 (UTC) reply

• Delete all or redirect all. The project banners should definately go as they put the articles into categories although they are just redirects. I don't feel strongly about deletion or redirection, but deletion is probably a little cleaner. – sgeureka ^{t• c} 06:30, 25 June 2008 (UTC) reply
• Keep or redirect. I agree with what Lifebaka said. There's no point in deleting the pages altogether. -- Ned Scott 09:06, 25 June 2008 (UTC) reply
• First of all, everybody agrees that they should have not project tags (so in the best case they should be left blank) and that they have a not important edit history. Secondly, please note that for someone accessing these talk pages, should ho to the redirect (not the target article) and then check the talk page). There is a discussion for creating a new speedy deletion criterion exactly for this case. Lastly, in the beginning I wrote "they have meaningful history". It was a mistake "I meant they have NOT meaningful history". -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:14, 25 June 2008 (UTC) reply
  • Not everyone agrees that such talk pages shouldn't have banners. It depends on how a project is using their banner. -- Ned Scott 10:31, 25 June 2008 (UTC) reply
    • I don't think WP:SOAPS keeps track of redirects. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:51, 25 June 2008 (UTC) reply
  • If projects want to keep track of redirects they have to find another way. Tags are there in order to improve articles. That's why they have "priority" and "class". -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:57, 25 June 2008 (UTC) reply
    • They're free to use this method if they choose. Priority and class fields are for article assessment, which is but one possible tool that a banner can act as. -- Ned Scott 11:07, 25 June 2008 (UTC) reply
      • • At least these articles above don't use this method. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:11, 25 June 2008 (UTC) reply
• Redirect all - this shouldn't really have to come to MFD to decide this. Neıl 龱 13:06, 25 June 2008 (UTC) reply
• Redirect all to the talk page of the target of the article page redirects. -- SmokeyJoe ( talk) 10:13, 27 June 2008 (UTC) reply

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 (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.