The result was no consensus. -- Coffee // have a cup // ark // 03:57, 10 December 2009 (UTC) reply
I'm moving this here from MfD, where it was originally nominated by Cnilep. I speedily closed the MfD because the article in question is a disambiguation page in the article namespace; see WP:Miscellany for deletion/Downtown Norwich for more on why I did so. The original nominator's rationale is as follows:
" Downtown Norwich is a DAB page. There are currently no internal links to that name, and no clear reason to expect that pages would link to that name rather than Norwich. The page Norwich (disambiguation) therefore seems sufficient to handle any future links.
In addition, DAB pages are generally created only when there are three or more topics that might be referred to with the same term. This page currently contains only two links. I redirected the page to Norwich (disambiguation), but this edit was reverted by the editor who created the page.
See also WP:Redirects for discussion/Log/2009 October 26, a decision to delete the page Downtown Norwich, which at that time was a redirect to Norwich. Cnilep ( talk) 03:02, 3 December 2009 (UTC)" reply
I am neutral. A Stop at Willoughby ( talk) 03:33, 3 December 2009 (UTC) A Stop at Willoughby ( talk) 03:33, 3 December 2009 (UTC) reply
BEGIN QUOTE Hi. I see that after the redirect was deleted, you re-created Downtown Norwich as a disambiguation page. I don't believe that the page has value. The chance that someone would seek an article about "Downtown Norwich" without finding their way to Norwich (disambiguation) or Downtown Norwich Historic District is vanishingly small. This article gets in the way of prospective users by placing an extra step between them and the content they seek. To avoid yet another contentious (but fundamentally pointless) discussion, would you please consider flagging it with {{db-author}}? -- Orlady ( talk) 03:49, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
- "Downtown Norwich" is primarily used for the Connecticut neighborhood of that name as evidenced by Google Books and News hits. I would consider recreating the redirect to Downtown Norwich Historic District as the primary topic for that term. -- Polaron | Talk 05:14, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
- Sorry for not responding earlier -- I was thinking about what to say.
Considering that the "Downtown Norwich" redirect was just recently deleted following a CfD discussion, recreating the redirect would convey a very negative message regarding your opinions of Wikipedia policies and conventions.
Although the fact that a pair of words exist as a potential search term does not justify creating a wikilink for that pair of words, the redirect was (in my opinion) harmless. Unfortunately, however, the disambiguation page could be harmful -- it creates problems for other users. People who click on a 'downtown Norwich" link in the articles that have such links are now taken to a disambiguation page, when we all know perfectly well where they should be pointed. Those links should be piped so as to take the user to Downtown Norwich Historic District. If they were piped, then there would be no need for either a redirect or a disambiguation page.
Goes off to pipe those links... -- Orlady ( talk) 01:45, 10 November 2009 (UTC) END QUOTE