Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2012 April 9

9 April 2012

Baba rosa

Baba rosa (talk|edit|history|logs|links|watch) (XfD|restore)

This entry was lumped together in a mass deletion of several related articles however the discussion's votes and arguments were all counted against all of them when the votes did not all reflect upon each item under discussion. Baba rosa is in fact a non controvertial Spanish term (used in Spanish wikipedia) for the subject of pink slime and per G3 "redirects from common misspellings or misnomers are generally useful, as are sometimes redirects in other languages." So I find it odd that g3 has been cited in deletion and redeletion.LuciferWildCat (talk) 20:41, 9 April 2012 (UTC) LuciferWildCat (talk) 20:41, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

• I'll endorse this. Whether or not the R3 (not G3) speedies were correct, the third deletion at RFD surely was, and it was backed by WP:REDIRECT#DELETE #8: "In particular, redirects from a foreign language title to a page whose subject is unrelated to that language (or a culture that speaks that language) should generally not be created." Same reason we have 日本→Japan but not ベルギー→Belgium. 74.74.150.139 (talk) 21:46, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
• Comment of the closing administrator. I only deleted Baba rosa redirect as all other redirects had been deleted before I closed the discussion. Ruslik_Zero 07:49, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
• Note There was an additional apparently duplicate RfD for this one on April 2, [1] DGG ( talk ) 22:30, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
• Endorse The IP editor above makes a good point, we don't have redirects for the foreign language equivalent of every article. OSborn ^arf_contribs. 05:24, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
• comment Spanish is not a foreign language in the United States.LuciferWildCat (talk) 07:30, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
  • Totally irrelevant. This is the English language Wikipedia, not the United States Wikipedia. 74.74.150.139 (talk) 07:51, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
    • But it's the pink slime article, which seems to be a somewhat U.S.-centric topic. – hysteria18 (talk) 01:25, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
      • The term "foreign language redirects" refers specifically to redirects which are in languages other than English. Such redirects are OK if they relate to a culture which speaks that language, but pink slime doesn't have any special relevance to Spanish-speaking Americans. Hut 8.5 11:48, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
• Endorse foreign language (i.e. not English) redirects should not generally be created unless the target of the redirect relates to the language or a culture which speaks that language (WP:R#DELETE). Foreign language redirects are sometimes useful, but that shouldn't be taken to mean that they are always useful. Hut 8.5 10:24, 11 April 2012 (UTC)