This is a list of redirects that have been proposed for deletion or other action on June 12, 2015.
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- The result of the discussion wasdelete. There is no support for the present target, that is clearly unhelpful, and no consensus on an alternative target. If anyone wants to create a disamb page then that can be done subsequently as a bold editorial action.Just Chilling (talk)16:48, 21 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- I've never heard of it, but I am southern English. Strangely, it would seem perfectly good Cockney slang, but not Northern slang. Google lists primarly (and secondarily and teriarwhateverily and quaternily)Blacker's Bakeshop, presumably paid for doing so.
- Comment. The only thing I can think of as anywherenear a ref is that it is used inBilly Bragg's song (I forget the name of the song) "When thelackeys send the blackers out to cheat us".Fallen in love with a little time bomb I think. But Bragg is a southerner too.Si Trew (talk)16:39, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- And it's misremembered: it's "When the bosses send their lackeys out".... no mention of blackers.Si Trew (talk)08:20, 5 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment Is it possible to take it toBlinkers (UK. Eng) orBlinders (Am. Eng). or is that just making more trouble?Si Trew (talk)16:39, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I think the problem here is that "Blackers" isn't a demonym, but a nickname. I'm relatively local and this is the first time I've heard it, a Google search also didn't result in many hits.--Trappedinburnley (talk)16:13, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Retarget - toBlackman I believe this may be a common nickname for anyone with this surname. I know (WP:OR admission) thatJohn Blackman carries this nickname as an example.Dragonfire X (talk)23:11, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- How about adding that toBlacker and pointing "Blackers" to "Blacker" ? --70.51.202.183 (talk)04:39, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- No. Blacker is an adverb. Blackers is an unrelated nickname. You're introducing confusion with that suggestion.Dragonfire X (talk)09:52, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- No it isn't, it's anagent noun for people who doblacking (or have I spent too many years filling incryptic crosswords?). Incidentally, my mother's side of the family has the surnameBackman, we think originally from GermanBachman orBachmann, but amongst all of the nicknames, "Blackman" was not one of them.Si Trew (talk)12:18, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- An agent noun? Black is also a verb, and Blacker (as in more black) is an adverb. "Back" anything has nothing to do with this situation.Dragonfire X (talk)13:48, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- You're right about "Back", I was just kinda mentioning it to rule it out. But "Blacker"is not an adverb. It can be acomparative, as anadjective, never anadverb. Whether (in its noun form) you call it anagent noun,agentive noun, orgerund rather depends which grammar you read: but the adverb "BlacklyBlackly" ->Black. As if English had grammar!Si Trew (talk). To "See through a glass, darkly", (1 Corinthians 13:12 in theKJV) is not "To see through a glass, dark". I seem to remember it was the reading byTony Blair atDiana, Princess of Wales' funeral. 07:08, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
- No, it's adisambiguation page it is neither noun, adverb, verb, or adjective. --70.51.202.183 (talk)08:28, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- I was wondering if this is a case ofWP:ENGVAR, for the adverb. It is not an adverb in British English. I used to get annoyed, when I lived in Texas, to see signs saying "Drive Friendly" when we all know it should be "Drive Friendlily", but US English does tend to fuse adjectives and adverbs in that way, so perhaps that's just a case of ENGVAR. I need not multiply examples, I am sure. Unfortunately it is infiltrating British English, with things like "Box Clever" instead of "Box Cleverly". "Think fast" instead of "Think quickly".Si Trew (talk)08:40, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Retarget toBlacker, a{{surname}} DAB, as{{R from plural}}}.Si Trew (talk)12:21, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]- Create a disambiguation page per 70.51. Since, so it seems, none of us can kinda settle on this, all of us in good faith, it seems like the best thing. If we can't make up our minds, what can readers expect except aWP:SURPRISE? I'll make a draft atDraft:Blackers for your consideration.Si Trew (talk)08:46, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Made the draft for your consideration. Very much a rough first draft.Si Trew (talk)09:03, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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- The result of the discussion waskeep/withdrawn. --BDD (talk)19:01, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Thanks to 70.51, I've commented onTalk:S.A. (corporation) and I dislike splitting discussions but we have to start somewhere. (It's a move request there, but not to a title I like:corporations under civil law) Leaving that aside, this R goes toS.A., a DAB page, where it isnot mentioned: Of course the obvious quick fix is to add it at that DAB, but considering the malarkey we have withS.p.A.S.p.A. et al, I think it is better to list here. We could possibly merge into that discussion, I dunno.Si Trew (talk)09:10, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- My proposed move would be toS.A.S.A. →S.A. (corporation). This is, if you'llexcuse my French, all arse about face, put thearticle atS.A.S.A., the redirects will follow. I do appreciate there are variations in many other Latinate languages, butall are "S.A." in that way, I realise this is not specific to France or French, but I think searching for "S.A." if you see it on a packet (or SA) and wonder what it means, that would be the obvious place to go. There is no need to disambiguate it with "(corporation)" whenS.A.S.A. is going spare. (as indeed am I).Si Trew (talk)09:16, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment. The article itself is simply a list article of what it is called in various countries/languages.WP:NOTDIC, and not a translation dictionary. In the article, Egypt and Arabic are duplicated, and both have a miscellaneous parenthesis in them – presumably cut and paste. (I guess with Egypt, it is from the time when the spiteful, cowardly French colonizedUpper Egypt and the brave, courageous British brought education, sanitation, roads, etc. etc. toLower Egypt)Don't mention the war!. It's not a designation one commonly sees in alphabets other thanlatin, or at least was not common when I lived in Cairo; but my Arabic is a bit rusty.Si Trew (talk)09:50, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment.S.A.S.A. is an R to the DAB atSA, and without prejudice I will mark as
{{R to disambiguation page}}. 70.51 comes in good faith as always, and I think on this one, wins the day. But even if not, no harm in marking it such in the meantime.Si Trew (talk)13:39, 5 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep Way too common an abbreviation for both South Africa and South Australia (particularly the latter) to delete and the corporation argument above is not common enough to suggest retargetting in any way.Dragonfire X (talk)23:14, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep andProcedural close as nominator, please. The target has gone under several revisions since I listed it, including one from ourUser:BDD, so I think in light of that, my initial comments no longer make sense. The tags at the redirect can be replaced, I think, just by
{{R from other punctuation}}, if we have consent to keep.Si Trew (talk)12:41, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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- The result of the discussion wasretarget toSPA (disambiguation).Deryck C.12:32, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete perWP:RFD#D2 "may cause confusion",WP:RFD#D5 "makes no sense". The Italian formation of alimited company is not the same as the French one.Si Trew (talk)15:47, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Speedy keep Are we looking at the same article? It's not limited to French usage, and right there in the "In different countries" section it says "Società Anonima in Italian (since 1942Società per Azioni, S.p.A.)". --BDD (talk)15:57, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Refine{{struckSi Trew (talk) 08:58, 4 June 2015 (UTC)}, then, as{{R to section}}S.A. (corporation)#In different countries. I told you, have can, will worms: what are "different countries"? PerhapsElsewhere or in theList of countries that are not France? It's not veryWP:NEUTRAL, is it, but that's for another day.Si Trew (talk)16:19, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]- Comment.S.P.A.S.P.A. →SPA, the DAB. There is something afoot here, sinceany fule kno thatSpa, Belgium is where we get the word "Spa" from (also I am now inundated with ads for hot baths in Budapest, thanks!) but the caps and punctuation etc on the redirects are a bit of a mess to where they go. NOW JUST WALK OUT OF THE ROOM AND LET IT GO TREW...Si Trew (talk)16:26, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Ach, on that DAB (Spa being primary topic for a hot water treatment) we also haveS.P.A. (automobile), which would not be relevant except they were Italian (inTurin), full nameSocietà Piemontese AutomobiliSocietà Piemontese Automobili which redirects there. Yes, I knowWP:DIFFCAPS, but unfortunately most search engines, including Wikipedia's, don't.Si Trew (talk)16:34, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- (edit conflict) That's more of a problem. I think it's ok for S.p.A. and S.P.A. to be different, perWP:DIFFCAPS, but that might be worthy of discussion, if you'd like. As it stands, deliberate lowercasing of the P almost certainly refers to the Italian corporation suffix. --BDD (talk)16:38, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Nicely done, I struck mine and will try again.Si Trew (talk)08:58, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- ButS.A. (corporation) says S.p.A. is an Italian equivalent. Is that wrong? --BDD (talk)13:13, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- To my mind, it is wrong, because the laws of incorporation differ. 'F'rexample, we don't say thatGmbH →Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung is "equivalent", even though that is incorporated undercivil law. (I am leavingcommon law corporate names such asLtd andInc. andplc – all of which are DAB pages – aside). Yes, they are kinda the same structure, but internally they differ a lot: f'rexample how theboard of directors is elected (or not). It's theequivalence that I am unhappy about, they are not equivalent. But perhaps I am being too kinda legalistic or mathematical.Si Trew (talk)19:21, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- n.b.Si,{{R to disambiguation page}} doesn't belong on every R to a disambiguation page, confusingly. Per the template's documentation, it only applies to redirects with (disambiguation) in the title. --BDD (talk)13:11, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- No, 7ó.51, I listed them correctly according to the instructions, that is what ittold me to do. I would have been quite happy if we just had it here without my listing it, but the Rfd instructions and so on forWP:Requested move tell me such-and-such. Don't mind if that move request failed, but I went through the proper procedure. It's a pain in the arse to request a move if one is not an admin: I did as I should according to the instructions.My zero keeo key escapes me, I have no idea what keyboard layout it thinks it's on, since I plugged in Flemish one. Not Hungarian, not Flams, not English.Si Trew (talk)07:50, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Palace of Varieties
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- The result of the discussion wasdelete. --BDD (talk)13:38, 19 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment. To come withclean hands, I put this as a link on my talk page referring (kindly) to RfD itself as a "palace of varieties" which is why I like to come here, we get so varied stuff. I wasn't expecting it to go to the Opera House in Belfast, particularly, so that was aWP:SURPRISE.Si Trew (talk)11:59, 12 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per above and I would add that there is just one mention of the name and nothing else (and it was only called that for five years, which in the life of the theatre represents a pittance of time really).Dragonfire X (talk)23:29, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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- The result of the discussion waskeep. The discussion below has demonstrated thatSouthern Tenant Farmers Union is an appropriateprimary topic for this abbreviation as far as the scope of Wikipedia is concerned. The existing hatnote has taken care of the need for disambiguation.Deryck C.19:22, 21 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Retarget dependent on our decision at#SHUT THE FUCK UP below. This abbreviation seems more likely than the Southern Tenants Farmers Union, and a quick search around the Web shows it to be true. Retarget and hatnote.Si Trew (talk) 11:06, 12 June 2015 (UTC)Si Trew (talk)11:06, 12 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Weak keep I don't doubt that that's a more common usage than the Southern Tenants Farmers Union, but we're an encyclopedia, not a dictionary. I think the status quo, with a hatnote, is fine. --BDD (talk)15:11, 12 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Well, we don't haveSouthern Tenants Farmers Union, as you wrote. Nor do we haveSouthern Tenants' Farmers Union norSouthern Tenant's Farmer's Union. We do haveSouthern Tenant Farmers' UnionSouthern Tenant Farmers' Union → same target. (Also there are redirects forSdfu, but that's probably ranging too far out of the ambit of these two.) I do still think it gives thetenant farmers perhaps a bit ofWP:UNDUE recognition.Si Trew (talk)11:33, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- IndeedWP:NOTDIC, but also I thinkWP:COMMONNAME has to be considered too. I think if we establish the target below to "Shut up", which seems to be aWP:AVALANCHE of opinion towards that (I could try to hit it with aWP:SNOWBALL), then these will naturally follow.Si Trew (talk)11:20, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- I must admit I do have a systemic bias against Southern tenant farmers: especiallly the notable two who becamePresident of the Union.Si Trew (talk)11:59, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- You're right, as always. Somehow I missed that the target had the hatnote already.Si Trew (talk)11:24, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment This is something of a grey area. On the one hand, STFU is much better known as the acronym for Shut The Fuck Up than the current target. On the other hand, it's quite right to note that STFU in that usage is more urban dictionary than encyclopedia, which would therefore be in violation ofWP:NOT. However I lean towards an arrangement per my vote below (I admit to typing this first).Dragonfire X (talk)23:24, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- CommentWikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2009 January 25 apparently discussesStufuStufu), which also links to the tenant farmers: but I can't see anything on the discussion about it. It was,retargeted fromInternet slang on 26 Jan 2009 byUser:Richard0612 (withthis edit). Again, that seems a bitWP:UNDUE. I am not sure if e.g.SNAFU maybe was called to mind, or "stuff you!"" orGet stuffed, common mild British English ways to swear at another, usually used sarcastically or ironically, but again,WP:NOTDIC.Si Trew (talk)11:44, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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- The result of the discussion wasretarget toShut up. I've refined the target of both redirects toShut up#Variations.Deryck C.19:12, 21 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
no mention or obvious connectionEtiquette. The lowercaseShut The Fuck Up is adequate as full caps not used atShut up.Widefox;talk05:32, 12 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment. I removed another from immediately above here which was identical, I am sure the nom just listed twice in error – no attempt on my part atWP:CENSORSHIP, just gnoming (I did make trebly sure it was exactly the same and not just an alternative name – the Wikimedia software injected a different section link to distinguish, to make it#SHUT_THE_FUCK_UP_2, so evenit thought they were the same section title and thus the same redirect, from which the section title is derived if you use Twinkle.) I've marked this as
{{R from other capitalisation}}, as usual without prejudice to this discussion but until we have consensus that is what it is: but as you see from immediately below my opinion is...Si Trew (talk)09:57, 12 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Hmm, my scientifically conductedopinion poll (population 1:SD: 0: No: 1: Yes: 0: Accuracy: 0) ofUser:Monkap, the missus, shows that
shethe surveyed population has never heard of it, andshethe surveyed population is in the bracket of those who regularly use that kind of new-fangled mobile interweb stuff. But a Google search shows me andherthe surveyed population otherwise.Si Trew (talk)10:59, 12 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Retarget toShut up, where it's mentioned. It's specifically mentioned at #Variations, but it's semantically similar enough I'd prefer not having a section redirect. --BDD (talk)15:10, 12 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Retarget per BDD, and I think Si (your comment does not seem to be akeep !vote).Ivanvector (talk)14:32, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Retarget I'd missed any mention atShut up. Per BDD (again).Widefox;talk17:35, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Retarget toShut up per BDD. --Lenticel(talk)23:21, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Retarget toShut up and do the same to STFU above, subject to opinions otherwise re the grey area mentioned.Dragonfire X (talk)23:27, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Retarget as all above. BDD, my keep !vote is immediately above the comment, but I am striking it with this edit: much better idea, to retarget.Si Trew (talk)10:49, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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