Talk:A:\

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This redirect was among a group nominated to RfD on 7 Jan 2011. During the discussion, several retargetting suggestions were proposed and debated. The only clear consensus that emerged was that this and A:/ should redirect to the same destination. The debate is copied below so that discussion may continue. Rossami (talk) 04:47, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

• c:\ → Drive letter assignment (links to redirect • history • stats)
• c:\WINDOWS → Microsoft Windows (links to redirect • history • stats)
• c:\Program Files → Program Files (links to redirect • history • stats)
• c:/Program Files → Program Files (links to redirect • history • stats) 
• A:/ → Floppy disk (links to redirect • history • stats)
• A:\ → Drive letter assignment (links to redirect • history • stats)

Potentially misleading/deceptive. Few page views. Delete. Mhiji 01:41, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

• Can you be a bit clearer? In what way are these "potentially deceptive"? I agree that one might argue about what the correct targets are, but that's not a reason for deletion. — Gavia immer (talk) 04:26, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
• Keep C:\ and A:\, Neutral about the rest. A:\ and C:\ seem are perfectly logical search terms, and none of them seem at all deceptive, misleading or otherwise harmful to me. I'm neutral about the others as they feel like less obvious search terms. Thryduulf (talk) 05:30, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
• Multiple positions:
  • Retarget A:\ to Floppy disk. On DOS and Windows systems, drives A and B are reserved for floppy drives. (Network drives may be set up at those letters, but that is exceedingly rare.)
  • Retarget C:\ to Hard disk drive. The C drive is always a hard drive on Windows/DOS systems.
  • Neutral on the ones with forward slashes.
  • Keep others. They are plausible search terms. — This, that, and the other (talk) 06:41, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
• Retarget A:\ to Floppy disk and C:\ to Hard disk drive — common search terms for drives, etc. No comment about the rest. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 07:21, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
• Retarget and Keep-I don't see how they're "misleading/deceptive" as you claim. Retarget A:\ to floppy drive and C:\ to hard drive. Everything else should be kept as is.Smallman12q (talk) 12:45, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
• Retarget and Keep - This, That and the Other explained it quite well and I agree. --AOL Alex (talk) 09:18, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
• Be consistent. I find it strange that C:\WINDOWS redirects to an article about an operating system and C:\Program Files redirects to an article about a directory. I'm inclined to agree with others who suggest retargeting A:\ to Floppy disk and C:\ to Hard disk drive. —Anomalocaris (talk) 03:35, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
• A:\ and C:\ should stay as redirects to Drive letter assignment, where there is an explanation of the letters. There is nothing about this in floppy disk or hard disk drive which are about the devices. Peter E. James (talk) 11:50, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
  • But A:/ should redirect to Floppy disk?!
    • No. Uncle G (talk) 15:47, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
• The only one that I'd change would be A:/ which should redirect to the same place as A:\. Everything else seems fine as it is. I agree with Peter E. James that drive letters are a matter of drive letter assignment, not of actual I/O device hardware. C:\, C:/, A:\, and A:/ should all redirect to where C: already does, as indeed is mostly the case already. Redirecting to the I/O devices is wrongheaded. These aren't alternative names for I/O devices. Indeed, C:\, C:/, A:\, and A:/ are directory pathnames, not even drive letters, strictly speaking. The only other logical place for them to redirect is thus root directory, which would be my alternative choice.

  If we had an article on the Windows directory, C:\WINDOWS (and indeed C:\WINNT and WINDIR) would best redirect there. But no-one has written such an article yet. Uncle G (talk) 15:47, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

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