Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anchluss

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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 Keep, perfectly valid redirect. Non-admin closure. Ten Pound Hammer • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 19:27, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Anchluss

Anchluss (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

This is simply a misspelling of Anschluss, please delete it. Jimmy Fleischer (talk) 15:02, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

  • Keep: not an uncommon misspelling and redirects do no harm. --Pak21 (talk) 15:11, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep; Normally, Redirects are sent to Redirects for Discussion. However, I see no need to forward this request to RFD, as it is indeed a common misspelling and should be retained as a search aid. ZZ Claims ~ Evidence 15:25, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

I admit I had no idea that "common" misspellings are OK. I beg to differ about the "common", though. A quick Google search reveals 2,000 hits for "anchluss" on English-language pages, as opposed to 585,000 for the (correctly spelled) "anschluss". That's a misspelled rate of under .5% . If that qualifies as "common" in Wikipedia terms, I stand corrected, but I still consider it absurd. Jimmy Fleischer (talk) 15:51, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

  • Speedy Keep; possibly common misspelling. redirect ViperSnake151 15:53, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Yeah, "possibly". See above. Anyway, I bow to the majority... Jimmy Fleischer (talk) 15:57, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Speedy keep as is: a redirect. The originator of this article wrote what looks like a POV fork of Anschluss, and the first time the article was redirected, that was reverted as vandalism, but the fact remains that Anschluss is much more complete and is in fact a Featured Article. --Blanchardb-MeMyEarsMyMouth-timed 18:09, 24 November 2007 (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.