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July 23

This is a list of redirects that have been proposed for deletion or other action on July 23, 2014.

Aholic

delete. As -aholic exists, a search should find the concept anyway. Somewhat confusing, as the word (without hyphen) is never used in the real world. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 00:08, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep -aholic exists, so aholic can also exist (we shouldn't expect people to be experts at writing dictionaries, if this suffix is important enough to merit a redirect, then this form should also exist). -- 65.94.171.126 (talk) 05:14, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    Nonsense. WP:Redirects are cheap, but one that is clearly grammatically wrong and would show up in the default search is not useful. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 06:01, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    You can easily strip it from search results with {{R from typo}} ; whether it is grammatically correct or not is immaterial to the existence of the redirect. Indeed, it is useful because it is not grammatically correct, since not everyone writes dictionaries and grammar books. -- 65.94.171.126 (talk) 06:59, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oholic

move (without redirect) to -oholic. Again, a search should find the concept (once the move is done). The word (without the hyphen) is not used in the real world. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 00:08, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep if -oholic should exists, so then oholic can also exist (we shouldn't expect people to be experts at writing dictionaries, if this suffix is important enough to merit a redirect, then this form should also exist). -- 65.94.171.126 (talk) 05:14, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    Same reasoning as above. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 06:02, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Pizzaholic

Delete. Not mentioned in the target article, originally created (some time ago) by socks of Science3456, apparently before he was banned. Unused, probably since creation in 2006. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 23:31, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Awk (number)

Delete. Redirect created for no good reason by an editor (Voortle) known for creating inappropriate redirects. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 22:56, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Division of China

This is not the only time that China was divided, China has been dividem many times in its history (i.e. the Warlord Era), thus Disambiguate TheChampionMan1234 07:45, 13 July 2014 (UTC)}}[reply]

  • Weak disambiguate: is this a correct title for this DAB? — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk•track) 17:16, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Disambiguate this could also be construed as the title of an article on the subdivisions of China (ie. provinces, etc) -- 65.94.171.126 (talk) 03:52, 14 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, BDD (talk) 21:25, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Windows Janus

According to List of Microsoft codenames, Janus is the codename for Windows 2000 x64, and nothing to do with Win3.1. But the target says that Win3.1's codename is Janus, I will add a [citation needed] tag there because that statement in unsourced, I could not find any reliable sources proving that it is also a code name for Windows 3.1 TheChampionMan1234 06:48, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, BDD (talk) 21:24, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hungarian Geographical Name Committee

WP:REDLINK TheChampionMan1234 11:08, 12 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, BDD (talk) 21:20, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Lovers on a swing

Not mentioned at target article. Launchballer 18:23, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete it describes his painting Le Printemps which has, well, lovers on a swing. However, I don't think this is not a valid redirect since it's too vague. --Lenticel (talk) 04:22, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Contrived dab page

misleading, delete, user 14 July creating links to an essay reflecting user's own views and creating links which appear as established guidelines or essays with consensus support.

  • Delete The person who created this redirect added the section to WP:UNDAB per [1] which was not discussed, so should be removed, as it wasn't discussed, the added section can be userfied. This essay stood relatively unchanged for 8 years, before undiscussed changes appeared, so will greatly mislead editors who quote this essay expecting the longstanding text. -- 65.94.171.126 (talk) 05:23, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Unusual articles

Inappropriate CNR, unlikely search term. TheChampionMan1234 07:13, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete per nom. Unusual articles exist outside of Wikipedia, and indeed, in the main, they usually refer to unusual news articles, not pages on Wikipedia. -- 65.94.171.126 (talk) 05:18, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject:Architecture

Deletion - This is a cross namespace redirect. I have narrowed such redirects to only 12 redirects that have ":" in their title compared to previous discussion which had listed more than 50 pages, in line with categorization given by user: Black Falcon in that discussion as pseudo-namespace. This ":" character leads to confusion that it is a new namespace in wikipedia. Instead it is main namespace but redirect to wikipedia: namespace. Along with this WikiProject:Architecture redirect, I am nominating following 11 pages (Special:PrefixIndex/WikiProject: and capitalization Special:PrefixIndex/Wikiproject: lists) - WikiProject:Bulgaria, WikiProject:East Anglia, WikiProject:Guild of Copyeditors, WikiProject:Medicine, WikiProject:Pollution, Wikiproject:BLP categorization, Wikiproject:Essex, Wikiproject:Photography, Wikiproject:San Francisco 49ers, Wikiproject: Eurovision, Wikiproject:film. These are confusing especially to new users when they type wikiproject: in search suggestions, as I was once confused. Cited third page (talk) 10:28, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiproject Islam

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 procedural close. This page doesn't exist, nor does WikiProject Islam. Factchecker_atyourservice, please let me know if you need help listing a page here. --BDD (talk) 21:19, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

XNR to non-content Centrify (f / k / a FCAYS) (talk) (contribs) 16:28, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Dunno why the links are red, maybe some kind of FAQ could explain the syntax a bit. Centrify (f / k / a FCAYS) (talk) (contribs) 16:31, 23 July 2014 (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.
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