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Administrator instructions for Redirects for discussion:
| RFD instructions | |
|---|---|
| Close after | 7 days |
| Top tag | {{subst:rfd top}} RESULT ~~~~ |
| Bottom tag | {{subst:rfd bottom}} |
| Archive | If that was the last for that day, remove the day from RFD. |
| If deleting | |
| Remember | Do not delete redirs with relevant history; histmerge or move |
| If keeping | |
| Tag talk page | {{Oldrfd}} |
| Remove rfd tag | |
- Policy suggests a week of discussion before closure. However, exceptions may be made for items qualifying for speedy deletion.
- Enter the following text at the top and bottom of the RFD discussion section. (Together, these two edits will create a shaded box around the discussion thread confirming that it has been closed.)
- At the top:
- {{subst:rfd top}} RESULT. ~~~~
- At the bottom:
- {{subst:rfd bottom}}
- At the top:
- Note: Sometimes a redirect has history, and the history is significant - i.e. contains information about the addition of text. (This often happens because someone did a cut-and-paste "move", instead of using the "Move this page" button.) If this is the case, do not simply delete the redirect page, which we need to keep for copyright reasons. There are two ways to deal with such pages.
- For cut-and-paste moves, the "right" way to handle them is to merge the history into the appropriate page, using the procedure outlined here. This is a procedure fraught with peril, however, and on rare occasions doesn't work correctly. Once done, it cannot be undone without a lot of exceptionally tedious gruntwork. So don't pick this option unless it's definitely the right one for the case at hand.
- Another option, useful for pages which were merged (for example), is for redirect pages with significant history to be archived into a talk namespace, and a link to them put into an article's talk page.
- If you delete a redirect, don't forget to delete the accompanying talk page, if applicable. Make sure to add a link to the deletion discussion in your deletion log.
- When you remove an entry from this page because people decided to keep it, don't forget to remove the {{Rfd}} tag from the page (alas, this has to be done manually). It's worth periodically checking either Category:Redirects for deletion and Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Rfd to see if any pages missed this step. Checking either of these regularly has the side-benefit of finding pages where people added the {{Rfd}} tag to the page, but didn't realize they needed to edit RfD as well.
- For those redirects kept after the discussion, add Template:Oldrfd to the redirect talk page.
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After closing the discussion, the page will look like this:
RedirectName → TargetArticle
Wikipedia content modification information:
- This page was last modified on 12 October 2008, at 23:18.
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