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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the debate was move. —Nightstallion (?) 09:46, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Engine or Highway

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Okay, rather than possibly get into a long and pointless edit war, the destination of the redirect should be discussed here.

I hold that I4, which has always directed to Straight-4, and I-4, which has (until recently) directed to Interstate 4, should be consistent in order to avoid confusion. If the two redirects directed to two different pages, then imagine this:

Straight-4 I4 redirects here. For the highway, see Interstate 4.

Interstate 4 I-4 redirects here. For the engine, see Straight-4.

That would cause undue confusion. Keeping the two consistent serves to minimize confusion, perhaps at the expense of common usage (I4 is most common for the Straight-4, I-4 is most common for Interstate 4. But either can be used for either.)

BorgHunter 15:41, July 24, 2005 (UTC)

I agree. And I've been trying to get all the related pages done, too. The latest guidelines expect the abbreviations to be listed at I4, I-4 redirect there, and all instances of I4 and I-4 to be expanded at the relevent pages.
--William Allen Simpson 09:40, 4 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.