Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scancodes

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 of the debate was redirect. Johnleemk | Talk 13:14, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scancodes

Delete - Plural names are against Wikipedia naming guidelines; I've already moved the contents to "Scancode" Gennaro Prota 18:13, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

• Redirect seems plausible... no need to delete it. PJM 18:25, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect.--Esprit15d 18:27, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

• Comment. I'm not sure I can add to this page without interfering with the voting system. Anyway: where you draw the line? When you will have both the singular and plural form and when the singular one only? I think we should maintain consistency.
  OTOH, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_naming_convention is clear: no plurals if the singular exists. BTW, this is what every encyclopedia does.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Gennaro Prota (talk • contribs)

It's not a question of "having both" or "drawing the line", in my view. A redirect is a tool to help users find articles. I think it's likely that many people will type in the plural in this case...why not assist them? There are certainly cases where a redirect might be superfluous, but this is not one of them. PJM 20:38, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

• Comment to nominator: existing policy is not to move pages during AfDs. (I found out the hard way myself, and ended up having to close one AfD early and re-list it, and inadvertently caused all sorts of problems.) If you need to move a page, it's better to do it before nominating it, and then nominate it under the new name. MCB 00:19, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep redirect. Redirects are cheap. Stifle 16:59, 18 January 2006 (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.