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February 10

This is a list of redirects that have been proposed for deletion or other action on February 10, 2012

PC vs. Mac

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 Retarget to Operating system advocacy, links to all posible targets.-- Salix ( talk): 22:08, 22 February 2012 (UTC) reply

Added similar redirects to nomination. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff ( talk) 11:40, 11 February 2012 (UTC) reply

The redirect page should be deleted for obvious reasons. Typing in PC vs. Mac redirects a user to the "Get a Mac" commercial page. Wikipedia is no place for "versus" pages, and that includes redirects. Apage titled PC vs. Mac is invalid for Wikipedia, as it is not something you can give information about. It may also confuse people and may lead them to believe Wikipedia is biased. Please delete this redirect page. OwnedU2Fast ( talk) 21:04, 10 February 2012 (UTC) reply

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Template:Wikicommons

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 Delete virtually unused, see comment on transclusion counts below. Confusing for bots and people.-- Salix ( talk): 10:37, 26 February 2012 (UTC) reply

Unused redirect to {{ Commons category}}. It will make it easier to maintain bots if this and similar redirects are orphaned and deleted. See Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2012_January_27#Template:Commonsme and 2 next discussions for similar deletion request that was closed as delete. MGA73 ( talk) 20:50, 10 February 2012 (UTC) reply

Joined several similar nominations. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff ( talk) 23:26, 10 February 2012 (UTC) reply

New editors will most likely copy the template/name from another category or article instead of guessing what the name may be. "Old" editors will either know the name of the template or it will only take them 5 seconds to look up the right name. So I doubt anyone will miss the redirects.
If en-wiki has a category of an article with a redirect and a user copy the category/article to another wiki to translate then there will be a red link on that other wiki or they will need the same redirect on xx-wiki.
So I still think it would make things much easier if we delete the redirects and use the correct template and one or tro well known redirect names. -- MGA73 ( talk) 08:41, 11 February 2012 (UTC) reply
I would also note, that target names are more intuitive then those of redirects'. Though any name is OK to use for template, I just fail to see a rationale to have several for one template. (With rare exceptions of shortcuts to maintenance tags like {{ cn}} for {{ citation needed}}, {{ primary}} for {{ primary sources}} and several similar.) — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff ( talk) 11:35, 11 February 2012 (UTC) reply

Template:Commonscategory - 0 Template:Wikimedia Commons - 1 Template:Sisterlinkswp - 3 Template:Pic - 1 Template:Commonstiny - 1 Template:Commonspiped - 1 Template:Commonspar - 1 Template:Commonsimages - 0 Template:Commons-gallery- 3 Template:CommonsCat - 0 Template:Commoncat - 5-- Salix ( talk): 10:37, 26 February 2012 (UTC) reply

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