Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ana Sayfa

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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was Withdrawn. Not being a speaker of Turkish, I wasn't aware that Ana Sayfa was Turkish for "main page". I should note also that a.) "Main Page" is a redirect to the Ana Sayfa on the Turkish Wikipedia, and b.) there are other non-English redirects (such as Página principal) to the English main page, so I see no harm in keeping this. Furthermore, it's been restored as a redirect, and redirects don't belong in AfD anyway. Non-admin closure. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 18:09, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ana Sayfa

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Originally a redirect to the main page, until an IP over wrote it. Either way, it's not a necessary page -- no reason to leave as a redirect or as a duplicate. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 01:33, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

  • Delete per nom - Estel (talk) 01:34, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. A completely redundant duplicate. Nsk92 (talk) 01:59, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
Redirect to the main page seems fine to me, per Bigtimepeace's comments and changes. Nsk92 (talk) 05:10, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete This one confuses me. Someone creating an article under their own name maybe? JeremyMcCracken (talk) (contribs) 02:20, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Redirect. The best course is simply to undo the anon's edit and make this a redirect to the main page again. As near as I can tell using a free translation web cite, "Ana Sayfa" is Turkish for "Main Page" or "Mother Page." Is Ana Sayfa a likely search term for a Turkish speaker looking for the main page on the English Wikipedia? Probably not, but maybe someone would try it, and I see no harm in redirecting this phrase to Wiki's main page, i.e. just rolling back to the page as it was first created (redirects are cheap, as we like to say). If someone else comes along and agrees with this, I would say they should be bold and just turn it into a redirect again and close this AfD down (non-admin closure would be fine). There's no reason to delete it and no reason to have a full-blown AfD discussion. But I'll make sure someone else agrees with that assessment and not do anything myself.--Bigtimepeace | talk | contribs 03:35, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Strong delete - As duplicate of a main page. asenine say what? 04:15, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
That isn't what it was originally, see my comment. I actually just went ahead and reverted this back to a redirect as it was originally. There's no sense in keeping it as a copy of the Main Page while the AfD runs, regardless of the outcome. If folks want to delete it that's fine.--Bigtimepeace | talk | contribs 04:52, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Speedy redirect per Bigtimepeace. As one can see by visiting the Turkish Wikipedia, "Ana Sayfa" is the Turkish term for the main page. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 07:21, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.