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This is a list of redirects that have been proposed for deletion or other action on October 25, 2018.

Social libertarian

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Relisted, see Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2018 November 2#Social libertarian

List of Final Fantasy VII terms

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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 move page history without leaving redirect. This seems to be the least resisted solution to the problem at hand. Thanks Graham87 for offering to do that. Deryck C. 12:31, 2 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

All of the above redirects were merged to Gaia (Final Fantasy VII)#Geography in 2007. That article was then redirected to Compilation of Final Fantasy VII following an AfD in 2013. I'm not clear if any content was merged, but the Compilation article no longer contains such lists, and I don't see any other good targets for these titles.

Note that two of the above redirects (List of Final Fantasy VII locations and List of Final Fantasy VII terms) have non-trivial edit history. We may need to preserve those edit histories somewhere for WP:ATTREQ purposes. However, we do not need to locate them at titles which promise content that Wikipedia does not deliver; they can be moved elsewhere. 59.149.124.29 (talk) 17:47, 24 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~ Amory (u • t • c) 19:10, 1 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: @AngusWOOF, BDD, and Arms & Hearts: The consensus so far seems to be "don't keep but beware of the page history". Would a WP:HISTMERGE into the page history of Gaia (Final Fantasy VII), without leaving redirects at the current titles, be an acceptable solution to all?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Deryck C. 16:38, 15 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

No, because parallel histories should not be merged, as doing so leaves a mess. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 18:59, 15 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Deryck C. 15:43, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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ℛ

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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 R. -- Tavix (talk) 18:04, 2 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The symbol is not used in the target page. As it has no specific meaning (in mathematics, and probably elsewhere), it cannot be retargeted elsewhere D.Lazard (talk) 09:20, 16 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment All single unicode characters (outside the private use area) are very useful search terms and so should be or lead to a relevant article or disambiguation page. If there is no more specific meaning for this character then Letterlike Symbols is the article about the relevant unicode block. Unfortunately neither google nor Wikipedia's internal search engine distinguish between ℛ and R so searching for uses is not easy. Thryduulf (talk) 10:44, 16 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
OK, I'll redirect it to Script typeface#Unicode, and this thread can be speedy closed. D.Lazard (talk) 14:53, 16 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Actually I think it would be best not to speedy close this thread as other people may have different views on the best target. Thryduulf (talk) 15:34, 16 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Deryck C. 15:42, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Panadol (brand)

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The result of the discussion was keep. (non-admin closure) feminist (talk) 12:52, 2 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

These two redirects should point to the same target. feminist (talk) 15:17, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

One is about the medication. The other is about one of the brands of this medication. So no is good how it is. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 15:36, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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MasSpec Pen

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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 restore article without prejudice against AfD. There is agreement that the current target is unsuitable. As several editors argued for article restoration and there is debate about whether the topic itself merits inclusion on the English Wikipedia, AfD is a better place than RfD to have that discussion. @Doc James: You are welcome to take this to AfD as if this was a contested PROD. Deryck C. 12:28, 2 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This is an article on a highly notable new medial device for detection of cancer. the article includes multiple mainstream sources. there is no reason to keep redirecting this article. Sm8900 (talk) 14:46, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    • with respect; unlike the text of this entry, adverts do not provide terse, concise fact-laden statements, seeking to provide basic informaiton with as little excesss verbiage as possible. as far as sources, from the Wikipedia guidelines that you cite above, the popular press is totally valid, even if it is not preferred for various types of topics. here is a direct quote from the guideline above:

A news article should therefore not be used as a sole source for a medical fact or figure. Editors are encouraged to seek out the scholarly research behind the news story. One possibility is to cite a higher-quality source along with a more-accessible popular source, for example, with the |laysummary= parameter of {{cite journal}}.

Conversely, the high-quality popular press can be a good source for social, biographical, current-affairs, financial, and historical information in a medical article. For example, popular science magazines such as New Scientist and Scientific American are not peer reviewed, but sometimes feature articles that explain medical subjects in plain English. As the quality of press coverage of medicine ranges from excellent to irresponsible, use common sense, and see how well the source fits the verifiability policy and general reliable sources guidelines.

as per this direct quote, using the popular press for general coverage is totally valid under the explicit terms of this guideline. --Sm8900 (talk) 15:54, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
      • also, with respect, @Doc James, what do you mean by labeling this as "Zero [valid] sources"?? here is a ref that i cited that is totally valid under the guidelines above!! QUOTE: The device uses mass spectrometry to perform chemical analyses. <ref name="abstract"> http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/9/406/eaan3968 Nondestructive tissue analysis for ex vivo and in vivo cancer diagnosis using a handheld mass spectrometry system], Jialing Zhang, John Rector1,2, John Q. Lin1, Jonathan H. Young1, Marta Sans1, Nitesh Katta2, Noah Giese1, Wendong Yu3, Chandandeep Nagi3, James Suliburk4, Jinsong Liu5, Alena Bensussan1, Rachel J. DeHoog1, Kyana Y. Garza1, Benjamin Ludolph1, Anna G. Sorace6, Anum Syed2, Aydin Zahedivash, Thomas E. Milner and Livia S. Eberlin,* Science Translational Medicine 06 Sep 2017. </ref> --Sm8900 (talk) 16:01, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Please read WP:MEDRS. No that is not a suitable source. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 16:11, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
well, thanks for your reply. as per my own first comment above, the ref from science mag is fully valid, because all mainstream media outlets are valid; as I acknowledged above, although yes, WP:MEDRS highlights the need for established scientific journals on some medical topics; however it does not outright prohibit the use of sources from the popular press, as per the excerpt that i note above. --Sm8900 (talk) 16:40, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Restore article per nom, and take to AfD if necessary. The current target doesn't mention the device, so is clearly unhelpful. The device is mentioned at Scientific instrument, but the mention is so insubstantial as to be similarly unhelpful. If relevant content can be added to Livia S. Eberlin then retargeting there might be appropriate, but we can't decide that in advance of the content existing. In the absence of any appropriate target to redirect this to, the notability/MEDRS issues discussed above should be resolved at AfD rather than here. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 17:45, 27 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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September 8 Alaskan Low

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The result of the discussion was delete. Deryck C. 10:48, 2 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Many extratropical cyclones existed in Alaska, likely more than one on September 8 B dash (talk) 13:56, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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＃MeToo

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The result of the discussion was Keep - mistaken nomination - withdrawn. Polyamorph (talk) 11:06, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Per WP:TSC it is a technical restriction that pages cannot contain special characters including #. This redirect does not actually physically work since the software interprets it as a section in wikipedia main page. So this should be deleted, unfortunately. Polyamorph (talk) 09:09, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  • This title contains a ＃ (fullwidth number sign, 0xFF03) and not a # (number sign, 0x23). If you can slap an RfD tag on the page, it obviously exists. I've created ＃Metoo to demonstrate. Since it has incoming links and is fairly significant, I'd lean towards not deleting it. -- zzuuzz (talk) 09:31, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • OK, that is true, I guess my navigation problems were nothing to do with the title and just me doing something wrong, so this can be closed then. Polyamorph (talk) 11:01, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Hegira (disambiguation)(2)

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The result of the discussion was speedy delete, G6 and G7. --BDD (talk) 13:54, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently created with this edit. User:Anthony Appleyard's edit summary says "without leaving a redirect", and yet one seems to have been created (and later edited only by bots). Was this an error? Does the current redirect serve any purpose? Cnilep (talk) 07:29, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Lou Ferrigno Jr.

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The result of the discussion was keep. Refine to Lou Ferrigno#Personal life ~ Amory (u • t • c) 01:26, 2 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The person with the title "Jr." is the son of the subject in the redirect target. They're a different actor (compare: IMDBname:4609670 to IMDBname:0002073). The son is barely mentioned in the article, as noted by another user. The redirects should be deleted to avoid confusion and since the subjects are not the same. Opencooper (talk) 05:59, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  • @BDD: All that section says about him are two short snippets: "They have three children ... Louis, Jr., born 1984"; "Louis, Jr. was a linebacker for the University of Southern California Trojans football team." If I read that, I wouldn't even know he was an actor, especially since the main article is about an actor himself. It makes no sense to redirect an article to someone's parent just because they're related by blood. The redirects should be deleted to allow redlinks, which can later be filled in. Opencooper (talk) 17:17, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • There's a question of how likely Junior is to get his own article. If he were clearly notable enough to warrant a standalone article, I'd be much more sympathetic to the idea that we should redlink the name to highlight that need. It is not at all apparent to me that that's the case here, though. --BDD (talk) 19:22, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep and refine As a former college athlete, he's notable enough for some people to have heard of him independently of his father, which makes him a plausible search term. And if you think the acting career is notable, you can mention it. Of course, the GNG standard is higher. Smartyllama (talk) 19:09, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete If Lou Ferrigno#Personal life contained anything of substance about Lou Ferrigno Jr. I'd support a retarget but, as Opencooper has pointed out, the only mention in the 295-word-long section is quite literally "Louis, Jr., born 1984". Redlinking this might encourage someone to actually write an article about him. With a blue link it's not obvious to anyone that there is no actual article. Retargeting this would provide a precedent for similar redirects. Two that immediately come to mind are R.B. Fuller and Robert Bede Fuller, both targeted to Advance Australia Fair#History because the composer of the Australian national anthem chose to explain to him, and him alone, the reasons he wrote the song in a letter that is now in the archives of the National Library of Australia. I wouldn't even consider creating these redirects as they serve no purpose. All this one does is give birth year. --AussieLegend (✉) 05:04, 27 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Point of information, AussieLegend: there's also "Louis, Jr. was a linebacker for the University of Southern California Trojans football team." No one is arguing there's a lot of information, but there's more than just a birthdate. --BDD (talk) 14:28, 29 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I think that just demonstrates how a redirect would be undesirable. The average reader isn't going to scour an entire section to find information on an individual who isn't the subject of the section and especially not the article. We have a mere 17 words out of 295 in the section that refer to the son and they're obscure, 73% of the way into the section. This isn't really enough to justify a redirect. --AussieLegend (✉) 14:39, 29 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Sterling Ban

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The result of the discussion was no consensus, default to delete since there is agreement that the current target is untenable. Deryck C. 12:22, 2 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

No utility. "Ban" is not an abbreviation for bank, nor is it a common misspelling. MB 02:12, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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