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Just to be sure, if someone wants to replace an article with a redirect, should that be done here or on Afd? Ludost Mlačani ( talk) 09:06, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
Hello! So I started an RfD for MediaTek Camera Application, and it's been relisted twice, however both relistings have resulted in no discussion beyond the proposal. I've been told that a good-faith RFD that proposes deletion is able to result in the deletion of the redirect if there's no discussion. So would it be appropriate for me to close the RfD and tag the redirect for deletion? If not what should I do because we can't just keep relisting it until there's some discussion. ― Blaze The Wolf TalkBlaze Wolf#6545 20:13, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
If a good-faith RfD nomination proposes to delete a redirect and has no discussion after at least 7 days, the default result is delete.This is because redirects cannot be prodded, so a no discussion redirect can be taken as if there is no objections (and the comparison to PROD is why I closed it as WP:SOFTDELETE). Blaze, you cannot close your own nomination as anything other than withdraw due to conflict of interests, and you cannot close a nomination as "delete" because you are not an administrator (see WP:BADNAC for more details). -- Tavix ( talk) 21:02, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
“ | Remove hatnote: not necessary at this unambiguous title (WP:NAMB), term does not redirect here | ” |
Per [1], a hatnote for an ambiguous incoming redirect was removed, as it was nominated for RfD, and thus no longer a redirect.
-- 65.92.246.142 ( talk) 13:25, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
Subjectively it feels like we're getting more nominations recently where the consensus response is "revert to an article and send to/without prejudice to AfD per WP:BLAR". Should we add a note about this to the bulleted list at the top of the main RfD page? Perhaps something like "If there is a dispute about whether a page should be an article or a redirect do not list the redirect here, but nominate the article version at AfD" (but please not verbatim, we can do much better than that). Of course not everybody will read it, and it wont account for every case (e.g. where the redirection was boldly done many years ago) but it might help some people get to the correct venue first. Thryduulf ( talk) 04:40, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Wikipedia talk:XFDcloser § RFC: Priorities for XFDcloser development in 2022.
Evad37 [
talk
00:21, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
A list article has been renamed and inclusion criteria enforced to include only notable people. That means there are a lot of redirects for the people whose names have been removed. This is the type of case where IAR should be invoked, but instead, I have been instructed to list each redirect here.
I found the links at /info/en/?search=Special:WhatLinksHere/List_of_Jeopardy!_contestants and tagged them, but have been blocked with the explanation that redirects "do not meet any of the speedy deletion criteria". In the process, my DB-g6 nominations got changed so all the following non-notable people are now redirected to the new article only for notable people at List of notable Jeopardy! contestants. (That makes this list unusable for our purposes.)
How do we get rid of the redirects for all those people? Is an admin willing to apply IAR and just do it? Please ping me. -- Valjean ( talk) 00:51, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
I'm going to try a different deletion template, with amended explanation, and hope common sense prevails:
Valjean ( talk) 16:14, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
Would somebody with the know how, please nominate 2021 Prince Edward Island Liberal Party leadership election for deletion? The party postponed its election until after 2021 & I don't know how to properly nominate it on the RFD page. The instructions are too confusing, to me. GoodDay ( talk) 01:39, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
PoundTales has recently edited Medallion with the RfD banner, stating "This redirect is now also part of the Medaillon discussion." in the edit summary. I don't want to mess anything up (therefore I'm posting here instead of doing it myself), but there should probably be a bulleted item similar to "Medallion → Medal (talk · links · history · stats) [ Closure: keep/retarget ]" added there. (I'm also not entirely sure if it's even possible to add another redirect to a bundle like that mid-discussion.) eviolite (talk) 03:30, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
Often when people do bulk nominations, they fail to tag some or all of the redirects they nominate. This is only discernible by directly visiting the page or by discerning the slight shift in link color from a noredirect link to a regular one—something my eyesight usually isn't good enough to do. Then, when this is noticed and the pages are belatedly tagged, the 7-day timer has to start over. To avoid this, I've made the following change to Template:Rfd2. When a nominated redirect has not been tagged, it will look like this (note the tooltip on the icon):
As this is a bold change to a TPE-protected template, if anyone objects to this, please let me know and I will self-revert; but I hope others find it helpful. -- Tamzin cetacean needed (she/they) 23:48, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
Should quasi-governmental and quasi-governmental agency redirect to state-owned enterprise? Maybe an article should be created as they aren't really synonyms IMO. Nubian Cloud ( talk) 16:52, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
The pageviews link was not generated correctly, and this fix had to be made because the page title was 228 characters long. The tool independently works for the long title as can be seen here. Perhaps this is something to do with how the pageviews link is generated during the nomination? Jay (talk) 11:49, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
toolforge:
link system is set up. --
Tamzin
cetacean needed (she/they)
06:57, 14 March 2022 (UTC)The question of whether WP:BLARs should be deleted at RfD has come up again at WP:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 March 4#Erin Sheehan. The question leads to more questions (I'm not listing the CSD criteria and page's status quo arguments); do we have consensus to some of these?
If there have been previous discussions, please point me to them, so I can summarize. Are some of these questions dependent on the bigger question of whether RfD should delete any redirects that had content, such as those created following an AfD for example? Jay (talk) 09:07, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
I think this warrants more discussion, as it would be nice to have more guidance on how to handle these situations rather than have the outcome depend on the philosophies of who happens to participate in each RfD discussion and whether or not anyone notices or cares about the non-trivial page history. I think there is more to consider than what Tavix describes. I laid out my concerns in detail at Thryduulf's talk page but I'll just raise a few points here:
I was alerted to this by Liz that closes are incomplete. It updates the RfD page but doesn't act on the redirect page. I checked my previous closes and see that Philosophy and myth, Simon Hatt and Raj Kumar (processor) have not been deleted despite the delete close. The last close that worked for me was WP:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 March 12#Brageirac (vila) of 19th March. I am trying to see when the problem started. Jay (talk) 06:28, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
Fixed ...I believe. (I cannot fully confirm since I am not an admin, and this cannot "test" delete a page.) XFDcloser should now work on any nominations initiated after the time stamp of this comment; any nominations initiated prior to this comment's time stamp will not be able to be closed properly by XFDcloser. Please see
Wikipedia talk:XFDcloser#XFDC not removing RFD tag from redirect when closing discussions or tagging talk page with old RFD for further details.
Steel1943 (
talk)
03:39, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
I've tried 10 times in my preview to nominate redirects 2021 Prince Edward Island Liberal Party leadership election & 2021 New Democratic Party of Prince Edward Island leadership election, for deletion. The instructions are difficult to understand & implement. So, not gonna bother with making the nominations. GoodDay ( talk) 03:25, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
The above Redirect goes to a minor target, one of the episodes of a U.S. television show, instead of to what should be a major article based on the joke "Who was that lady I saw you with last night? That was no lady; that was my wife." The earliest mention I saw of this joke was in 1936 at Newspapers.com. Whatever; in my humble opinion it is simply not a good Redirect. Thus the Redirect should be deleted. Yours, BeenAroundAWhile ( talk) 22:01, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
If I don't want a redirect deleted or renamed, but restored to a main article, what is the process? I don't see that option at WP:RFD#HOWTO or maybe I'm just confused. APK whisper in my ear 06:57, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Triad should be redirected to show the existing page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_triad
Please help fix this as there are a bunch of broken links on the net whereas the title of the specific condition and as such Dark Triad.
The redirect will correct without breaking anyone else's links. 174.4.58.16 ( talk) 23:29, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
I just saw a new redirect involving an emoji and it seems to match the target page, but I'm not sure. Should I start an RfD or is there precedent for this that I'm not aware of? Clovermoss (talk) 02:02, 13 July 2022 (UTC)
Hey! I recently discovered a pattern across ~24 (potentially less) redirects (related to the template and user namespace) that serve little function due to how wikipedia works on the technical side, and also all have no existing uses, and would be extremely unlikely to ever have a use. Is this a valid reason for deletion, and is there any advice for making mass nomination of redirects reasonably simple to do? Aidan9382 ( talk) 08:45, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
There are now only eight open log pages, each of which has at least one open nomination that has yet to hit 168 hours. In other words, zero pages that are all past-close. This is the first time I can recall ever seeing this. Thank you to all the other RfD admins, non-admin closers, and participants! (I'd ping some of y'all but then I'd inevitably miss someone and feel bad.) To celebrate, I have created the redirect
We Did It!, which will forever be
listed in my contribs right after closing the last straggler. :D
--
Tamzin
cetacean needed (she|they|xe)
20:05, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
Is this the correct page to request a change in a redirect's target? GoodDay ( talk) 05:55, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
It seems as a result of shades of colors getting moved around with out the redirects being moved, we have had a lot of submissions at RfD to figure out what to do with these, as it's generally not really obvious. It almost seems like the best solution to this would be to revert back some versions of the colors in so the redirects are pointing back to the right places and we would not need to look for where they've been moved to, but that risks having duplicate information. Does anyone else have an idea as to a way to solve this? RfD isn't a bad way to solve it, I was just wondering if others had other ideas. Tartar Torte 12:55, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
...such as Nicolas Cantu, or where the subject is only included in the cast list etc., or as a passing mention in the target. I see a lot of these at WP:AFCRC (e.g. Ayesha Toor) and I've created a fair few myself (like the example above). This was also discussed at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 November 20#Technoblade (and others), which I was largely involved in as creator of the redirects concerned. — Qwerfjkl talk 20:34, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Wikipedia talk:Wikimedia sister projects § Soft redirects to sister projects.
Thryduulf (
talk) 10:21, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
Thryduulf (
talk)
10:21, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
From discussion on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Fraternities and Sororities, it has been decided to put up all redirects where the capitalization of the later letters is lowercase. For example, Alpha phi omega redirects to Alpha Phi Omega. We have a list at User:Naraht/Greek letter titles lower, but I'm not quite sure the best way to put them into the RFD process. Note, in many cases the miscapitalization redirects to correctly capitalized, but in some cases the miscapitalization redirects to the same thing as the correctly capitalized. We consider the capitalization errors unlikely. Naraht ( talk) 18:51, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
The RfD for SS Rochester was closed by Asmodea Oaktree by retargeting to a page that does not exist. Liz reverted the retarget and removed the RfD tags, but did not re-open the RfD. What happens now? Jay 💬 08:09, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
I inserted
{{subst:Rfd2|redirect=IBM 370|target=IBM System/370|text=The redirect should be changed to a DAB page, with a primary of [[IBM 370 printer]]. The common abbreviation for System/370 is S/370, not IBM 370, and readers are not highly likely to be searching on IBM 370 unless they are looking for the printer. Users looking for the printer will be surprised by a page for unrelated, much later, products.}} ~~~~
for a new entry and the created text in https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2022_November_28&diff=1124349060&oldid=1124335397 had leading spaces before the section header. Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul ( talk) 13:46, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Did we forget to close this one? Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 October 27#Redirects with disambiguators missing ")" Consensus looks clear. Likely need an admin since deleting is involved. Thanks. – Novem Linguae ( talk) 08:13, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
Since yesterday (or is it today) I'm unable to type anything into the Result Summary or Rationale fields of the XFDcloser. It appears that some keyboard shortcuts may have been implemented, and what I type is being interpreted as shortcuts, for example 'D' is changing my result choice to Delete. I am managing by typing into Notepad, copying and pasting into the fields. I am using Firefox. Jay 💬 16:43, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
Want the ability to hit the [subscribe] button to individual RFDs? Then this community wishlist wish might be of interest. The [subscribe] button is a feature of DiscussionTools that lets you receive a notification when someone replies to a section, which lets you take busy pages off of your watchlist since you can just wait for notifications. – Novem Linguae ( talk) 07:24, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
See all nominations at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 February 27#Other films are no longer upcoming. 176.88.82.7 ( talk) 19:51, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
I'm finding that the size of the page is making it slower and harder to close discussions instead of making it easier...for the very old pages (maybe 10+ days old) could we just link to them instead of transcluding them? Legoktm ( talk) 03:57, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
WP:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 April 17#Manipuri: The Bishnupriyas and Meiteis of Manipur was closed by Wbm1058 who was a major participant as well. Rather than revert and close again, can an admin endorse it and probably add a line to the close statement to make it a valid close. That is, assuming it the Delete close is not controversial. Jay 💬 04:51, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
Hello. Next Thai general election was RfD'd, but during the RfD has been turned into an article. The tag was just reinstated (along with the redirect), which looks a bit weird. Are there any rules about this sort of situation? Cheers, Number 5 7 18:20, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
How do I slow the pace of nominations when I am unable to keep pace? Fram has a new clever game and this isn't what RfD is for. Invasive Spices ( talk) 21:09, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
I wanted to go to the RfD of Constitutional democracy from its notification at
Talk:Representative democracy. It took me to the July 25th page, and the relist link took me to August 1 where the RfD was missing. I checked the history and found CycloneYoris had moved some RfDs with comment Moved RfDs to correct log, since they were relisted after 00Z.
, but it did not say where the RfDs were moved to. From the user contributions I saw that they were moved to the August 2 page, and I made the date correction for the Constitutional democracy RfD at the July 25 page. @
CycloneYoris: can you fix the backlinks for the other moved discussions as well?
Jay
💬
13:04, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
The redirect
Wikipedia:RFD? has been listed at
redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the
redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at
Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 August 21 § Wikipedia:RFD? until a consensus is reached.
Tartar
Torte
17:36, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
Why is the convention to do this at RfD (but at no other deletion venue)? It seems counterprodutive to me, as it forces unclosed discussions to go through the wringer extra times and stay unclosed longer, and at the same time hides the backlog from people looking at {{ XFD backlog}} or elsewhere. * Pppery * it has begun... 01:14, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 September 7 § Template:R from deadname
Just opening a meta-discussion here, as (despite having opened the RfD myself) I’m becoming increasingly concerned that RfD may not be the best - or the right - venue for discussion about this. I opened the discussion at RfD initially as the page was a redirect to an rcat; but now it seems to be slowly turning into a bit more of a complex beast: with potential redirect, category, template, & BLP issues referred to so far.
Because of this, I’m no longer convinced that RfD — especially with its seven-day limits on discussions (excluding relists) — is the best or the right venue for a discussion that seems starting to lean towards the creation of a potentially controversial rcat template. I’m also concerned that (for example) if a consensus was reached here at RfD for a new rcat, that may then be challenged as an improper venue; and that other editors may have made comments if they were aware of the discussion, but as it was specifically listed at RfD, they weren’t.
I’m very new to this level of editing, so I’d be very appreciative if some more experienced editors could provide some advice!
Best, A smart kitten ( talk) 14:08, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
I'm a bit inexperienced here myself, but I would just notify all relevant pages to the discussion and keep it at RFD. Would like to hear other editors' thoughts, though.Edward-Woodrow :) [ talk 13:06, 9 September 2023 (UTC)
I have opened a discussion about the practice of drafting proposals below the redirect notice on redirects under discussion. You are invited to provide your feedback to the discussion here. Thank you. Ivanvector ( Talk/ Edits) 13:21, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
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Just to be sure, if someone wants to replace an article with a redirect, should that be done here or on Afd? Ludost Mlačani ( talk) 09:06, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
Hello! So I started an RfD for MediaTek Camera Application, and it's been relisted twice, however both relistings have resulted in no discussion beyond the proposal. I've been told that a good-faith RFD that proposes deletion is able to result in the deletion of the redirect if there's no discussion. So would it be appropriate for me to close the RfD and tag the redirect for deletion? If not what should I do because we can't just keep relisting it until there's some discussion. ― Blaze The Wolf TalkBlaze Wolf#6545 20:13, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
If a good-faith RfD nomination proposes to delete a redirect and has no discussion after at least 7 days, the default result is delete.This is because redirects cannot be prodded, so a no discussion redirect can be taken as if there is no objections (and the comparison to PROD is why I closed it as WP:SOFTDELETE). Blaze, you cannot close your own nomination as anything other than withdraw due to conflict of interests, and you cannot close a nomination as "delete" because you are not an administrator (see WP:BADNAC for more details). -- Tavix ( talk) 21:02, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
“ | Remove hatnote: not necessary at this unambiguous title (WP:NAMB), term does not redirect here | ” |
Per [1], a hatnote for an ambiguous incoming redirect was removed, as it was nominated for RfD, and thus no longer a redirect.
-- 65.92.246.142 ( talk) 13:25, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
Subjectively it feels like we're getting more nominations recently where the consensus response is "revert to an article and send to/without prejudice to AfD per WP:BLAR". Should we add a note about this to the bulleted list at the top of the main RfD page? Perhaps something like "If there is a dispute about whether a page should be an article or a redirect do not list the redirect here, but nominate the article version at AfD" (but please not verbatim, we can do much better than that). Of course not everybody will read it, and it wont account for every case (e.g. where the redirection was boldly done many years ago) but it might help some people get to the correct venue first. Thryduulf ( talk) 04:40, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Wikipedia talk:XFDcloser § RFC: Priorities for XFDcloser development in 2022.
Evad37 [
talk
00:21, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
A list article has been renamed and inclusion criteria enforced to include only notable people. That means there are a lot of redirects for the people whose names have been removed. This is the type of case where IAR should be invoked, but instead, I have been instructed to list each redirect here.
I found the links at /info/en/?search=Special:WhatLinksHere/List_of_Jeopardy!_contestants and tagged them, but have been blocked with the explanation that redirects "do not meet any of the speedy deletion criteria". In the process, my DB-g6 nominations got changed so all the following non-notable people are now redirected to the new article only for notable people at List of notable Jeopardy! contestants. (That makes this list unusable for our purposes.)
How do we get rid of the redirects for all those people? Is an admin willing to apply IAR and just do it? Please ping me. -- Valjean ( talk) 00:51, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
I'm going to try a different deletion template, with amended explanation, and hope common sense prevails:
Valjean ( talk) 16:14, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
Would somebody with the know how, please nominate 2021 Prince Edward Island Liberal Party leadership election for deletion? The party postponed its election until after 2021 & I don't know how to properly nominate it on the RFD page. The instructions are too confusing, to me. GoodDay ( talk) 01:39, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
PoundTales has recently edited Medallion with the RfD banner, stating "This redirect is now also part of the Medaillon discussion." in the edit summary. I don't want to mess anything up (therefore I'm posting here instead of doing it myself), but there should probably be a bulleted item similar to "Medallion → Medal (talk · links · history · stats) [ Closure: keep/retarget ]" added there. (I'm also not entirely sure if it's even possible to add another redirect to a bundle like that mid-discussion.) eviolite (talk) 03:30, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
Often when people do bulk nominations, they fail to tag some or all of the redirects they nominate. This is only discernible by directly visiting the page or by discerning the slight shift in link color from a noredirect link to a regular one—something my eyesight usually isn't good enough to do. Then, when this is noticed and the pages are belatedly tagged, the 7-day timer has to start over. To avoid this, I've made the following change to Template:Rfd2. When a nominated redirect has not been tagged, it will look like this (note the tooltip on the icon):
As this is a bold change to a TPE-protected template, if anyone objects to this, please let me know and I will self-revert; but I hope others find it helpful. -- Tamzin cetacean needed (she/they) 23:48, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
Should quasi-governmental and quasi-governmental agency redirect to state-owned enterprise? Maybe an article should be created as they aren't really synonyms IMO. Nubian Cloud ( talk) 16:52, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
The pageviews link was not generated correctly, and this fix had to be made because the page title was 228 characters long. The tool independently works for the long title as can be seen here. Perhaps this is something to do with how the pageviews link is generated during the nomination? Jay (talk) 11:49, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
toolforge:
link system is set up. --
Tamzin
cetacean needed (she/they)
06:57, 14 March 2022 (UTC)The question of whether WP:BLARs should be deleted at RfD has come up again at WP:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 March 4#Erin Sheehan. The question leads to more questions (I'm not listing the CSD criteria and page's status quo arguments); do we have consensus to some of these?
If there have been previous discussions, please point me to them, so I can summarize. Are some of these questions dependent on the bigger question of whether RfD should delete any redirects that had content, such as those created following an AfD for example? Jay (talk) 09:07, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
I think this warrants more discussion, as it would be nice to have more guidance on how to handle these situations rather than have the outcome depend on the philosophies of who happens to participate in each RfD discussion and whether or not anyone notices or cares about the non-trivial page history. I think there is more to consider than what Tavix describes. I laid out my concerns in detail at Thryduulf's talk page but I'll just raise a few points here:
I was alerted to this by Liz that closes are incomplete. It updates the RfD page but doesn't act on the redirect page. I checked my previous closes and see that Philosophy and myth, Simon Hatt and Raj Kumar (processor) have not been deleted despite the delete close. The last close that worked for me was WP:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 March 12#Brageirac (vila) of 19th March. I am trying to see when the problem started. Jay (talk) 06:28, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
Fixed ...I believe. (I cannot fully confirm since I am not an admin, and this cannot "test" delete a page.) XFDcloser should now work on any nominations initiated after the time stamp of this comment; any nominations initiated prior to this comment's time stamp will not be able to be closed properly by XFDcloser. Please see
Wikipedia talk:XFDcloser#XFDC not removing RFD tag from redirect when closing discussions or tagging talk page with old RFD for further details.
Steel1943 (
talk)
03:39, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
I've tried 10 times in my preview to nominate redirects 2021 Prince Edward Island Liberal Party leadership election & 2021 New Democratic Party of Prince Edward Island leadership election, for deletion. The instructions are difficult to understand & implement. So, not gonna bother with making the nominations. GoodDay ( talk) 03:25, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
The above Redirect goes to a minor target, one of the episodes of a U.S. television show, instead of to what should be a major article based on the joke "Who was that lady I saw you with last night? That was no lady; that was my wife." The earliest mention I saw of this joke was in 1936 at Newspapers.com. Whatever; in my humble opinion it is simply not a good Redirect. Thus the Redirect should be deleted. Yours, BeenAroundAWhile ( talk) 22:01, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
If I don't want a redirect deleted or renamed, but restored to a main article, what is the process? I don't see that option at WP:RFD#HOWTO or maybe I'm just confused. APK whisper in my ear 06:57, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Triad should be redirected to show the existing page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_triad
Please help fix this as there are a bunch of broken links on the net whereas the title of the specific condition and as such Dark Triad.
The redirect will correct without breaking anyone else's links. 174.4.58.16 ( talk) 23:29, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
I just saw a new redirect involving an emoji and it seems to match the target page, but I'm not sure. Should I start an RfD or is there precedent for this that I'm not aware of? Clovermoss (talk) 02:02, 13 July 2022 (UTC)
Hey! I recently discovered a pattern across ~24 (potentially less) redirects (related to the template and user namespace) that serve little function due to how wikipedia works on the technical side, and also all have no existing uses, and would be extremely unlikely to ever have a use. Is this a valid reason for deletion, and is there any advice for making mass nomination of redirects reasonably simple to do? Aidan9382 ( talk) 08:45, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
There are now only eight open log pages, each of which has at least one open nomination that has yet to hit 168 hours. In other words, zero pages that are all past-close. This is the first time I can recall ever seeing this. Thank you to all the other RfD admins, non-admin closers, and participants! (I'd ping some of y'all but then I'd inevitably miss someone and feel bad.) To celebrate, I have created the redirect
We Did It!, which will forever be
listed in my contribs right after closing the last straggler. :D
--
Tamzin
cetacean needed (she|they|xe)
20:05, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
Is this the correct page to request a change in a redirect's target? GoodDay ( talk) 05:55, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
It seems as a result of shades of colors getting moved around with out the redirects being moved, we have had a lot of submissions at RfD to figure out what to do with these, as it's generally not really obvious. It almost seems like the best solution to this would be to revert back some versions of the colors in so the redirects are pointing back to the right places and we would not need to look for where they've been moved to, but that risks having duplicate information. Does anyone else have an idea as to a way to solve this? RfD isn't a bad way to solve it, I was just wondering if others had other ideas. Tartar Torte 12:55, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
...such as Nicolas Cantu, or where the subject is only included in the cast list etc., or as a passing mention in the target. I see a lot of these at WP:AFCRC (e.g. Ayesha Toor) and I've created a fair few myself (like the example above). This was also discussed at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 November 20#Technoblade (and others), which I was largely involved in as creator of the redirects concerned. — Qwerfjkl talk 20:34, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Wikipedia talk:Wikimedia sister projects § Soft redirects to sister projects.
Thryduulf (
talk) 10:21, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
Thryduulf (
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10:21, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
From discussion on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Fraternities and Sororities, it has been decided to put up all redirects where the capitalization of the later letters is lowercase. For example, Alpha phi omega redirects to Alpha Phi Omega. We have a list at User:Naraht/Greek letter titles lower, but I'm not quite sure the best way to put them into the RFD process. Note, in many cases the miscapitalization redirects to correctly capitalized, but in some cases the miscapitalization redirects to the same thing as the correctly capitalized. We consider the capitalization errors unlikely. Naraht ( talk) 18:51, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
The RfD for SS Rochester was closed by Asmodea Oaktree by retargeting to a page that does not exist. Liz reverted the retarget and removed the RfD tags, but did not re-open the RfD. What happens now? Jay 💬 08:09, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
I inserted
{{subst:Rfd2|redirect=IBM 370|target=IBM System/370|text=The redirect should be changed to a DAB page, with a primary of [[IBM 370 printer]]. The common abbreviation for System/370 is S/370, not IBM 370, and readers are not highly likely to be searching on IBM 370 unless they are looking for the printer. Users looking for the printer will be surprised by a page for unrelated, much later, products.}} ~~~~
for a new entry and the created text in https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2022_November_28&diff=1124349060&oldid=1124335397 had leading spaces before the section header. Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul ( talk) 13:46, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Did we forget to close this one? Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 October 27#Redirects with disambiguators missing ")" Consensus looks clear. Likely need an admin since deleting is involved. Thanks. – Novem Linguae ( talk) 08:13, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
Since yesterday (or is it today) I'm unable to type anything into the Result Summary or Rationale fields of the XFDcloser. It appears that some keyboard shortcuts may have been implemented, and what I type is being interpreted as shortcuts, for example 'D' is changing my result choice to Delete. I am managing by typing into Notepad, copying and pasting into the fields. I am using Firefox. Jay 💬 16:43, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
Want the ability to hit the [subscribe] button to individual RFDs? Then this community wishlist wish might be of interest. The [subscribe] button is a feature of DiscussionTools that lets you receive a notification when someone replies to a section, which lets you take busy pages off of your watchlist since you can just wait for notifications. – Novem Linguae ( talk) 07:24, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
See all nominations at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 February 27#Other films are no longer upcoming. 176.88.82.7 ( talk) 19:51, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
I'm finding that the size of the page is making it slower and harder to close discussions instead of making it easier...for the very old pages (maybe 10+ days old) could we just link to them instead of transcluding them? Legoktm ( talk) 03:57, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
WP:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 April 17#Manipuri: The Bishnupriyas and Meiteis of Manipur was closed by Wbm1058 who was a major participant as well. Rather than revert and close again, can an admin endorse it and probably add a line to the close statement to make it a valid close. That is, assuming it the Delete close is not controversial. Jay 💬 04:51, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
Hello. Next Thai general election was RfD'd, but during the RfD has been turned into an article. The tag was just reinstated (along with the redirect), which looks a bit weird. Are there any rules about this sort of situation? Cheers, Number 5 7 18:20, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
How do I slow the pace of nominations when I am unable to keep pace? Fram has a new clever game and this isn't what RfD is for. Invasive Spices ( talk) 21:09, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
I wanted to go to the RfD of Constitutional democracy from its notification at
Talk:Representative democracy. It took me to the July 25th page, and the relist link took me to August 1 where the RfD was missing. I checked the history and found CycloneYoris had moved some RfDs with comment Moved RfDs to correct log, since they were relisted after 00Z.
, but it did not say where the RfDs were moved to. From the user contributions I saw that they were moved to the August 2 page, and I made the date correction for the Constitutional democracy RfD at the July 25 page. @
CycloneYoris: can you fix the backlinks for the other moved discussions as well?
Jay
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13:04, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
The redirect
Wikipedia:RFD? has been listed at
redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the
redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at
Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 August 21 § Wikipedia:RFD? until a consensus is reached.
Tartar
Torte
17:36, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
Why is the convention to do this at RfD (but at no other deletion venue)? It seems counterprodutive to me, as it forces unclosed discussions to go through the wringer extra times and stay unclosed longer, and at the same time hides the backlog from people looking at {{ XFD backlog}} or elsewhere. * Pppery * it has begun... 01:14, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 September 7 § Template:R from deadname
Just opening a meta-discussion here, as (despite having opened the RfD myself) I’m becoming increasingly concerned that RfD may not be the best - or the right - venue for discussion about this. I opened the discussion at RfD initially as the page was a redirect to an rcat; but now it seems to be slowly turning into a bit more of a complex beast: with potential redirect, category, template, & BLP issues referred to so far.
Because of this, I’m no longer convinced that RfD — especially with its seven-day limits on discussions (excluding relists) — is the best or the right venue for a discussion that seems starting to lean towards the creation of a potentially controversial rcat template. I’m also concerned that (for example) if a consensus was reached here at RfD for a new rcat, that may then be challenged as an improper venue; and that other editors may have made comments if they were aware of the discussion, but as it was specifically listed at RfD, they weren’t.
I’m very new to this level of editing, so I’d be very appreciative if some more experienced editors could provide some advice!
Best, A smart kitten ( talk) 14:08, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
I'm a bit inexperienced here myself, but I would just notify all relevant pages to the discussion and keep it at RFD. Would like to hear other editors' thoughts, though.Edward-Woodrow :) [ talk 13:06, 9 September 2023 (UTC)
I have opened a discussion about the practice of drafting proposals below the redirect notice on redirects under discussion. You are invited to provide your feedback to the discussion here. Thank you. Ivanvector ( Talk/ Edits) 13:21, 22 September 2023 (UTC)