Talk:Paul Rafaelovich Amnuel

undid the redirect to ru:Амнуэль, Павел Рафаэлович back to a redirect to Paul Rafaelovich Amnuél since if an english version of the article gets written up by another editor, they will be aware of the two similar but different spellings of Paul Rafaelovich Amnuél and Paul Rafaelovich Amnuel — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kjmonkey (talk • contribs) 21:14, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Paul Rafaelovich Amnuel

The article Paul Rafaelovich Amnuel has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

We don't do cross-wiki redirects, do we?

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 19:29, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

After a cursory glance, there's no policy agaist "cross-wiki" redirects that I can find. Perhaps you were thinking "cross-namespace" redirects? Referring to WP:CNR, the argument for deleting such redirects is because "Namespaces were created for a reason, so that the encyclopedic content would be separate. CNRs work against this." First just to clarify, by "cross-wiki" we mean from one language-specific wiki to another. In all language-specific wikis, the encyclopedic content is in the main namespace. When redirects point from one language-specific main namespace to a different language-specific main namespace, the redirection can still be said to reside in the same main (encyclopedic content) namespace. In this particular case, en:Paul Rafaelovich Amnuel is redirected to ru:Амнуэль, Павел Рафаэлович which are on the same main namespace. The primary reason for the redirect from the english to the russian wiki is because there is a well constructed article in russian and no article in english. The secondary reason for the redirect is because there are categories for the article in the english wiki that would have pointed to an otherwise redlink english article name. If the redirect either aids searches on certain terms or someone finds them usefulWP:RFD#KEEP, then the redirect should stay. Again, in this particular case since there is no english article for the search term "Paul Rafaelovich Amnuel" and an average english-speaking user would not likely search using the russian "Амнуэль, Павел Рафаэлович," we can presume such a redirect under the english term in lieu of a redlink would "aid searches" on those particular terms especially if the topic is proper in the russian wiki. Additionally, the presence of a redirect that goes to the analogous article in a different language wiki would be "useful" to a future editor of the english article where reliable citations or wiki commons resources may be found where a redlink and a blank page lends no such help.

If you feel the redirect is still inappropriate or should be deleted, then you can escalate the issue to WP:RFD. Since I do believe that the redirect is appropriate, I will remove the proposed deletion from the article main namespace and copy it to the discussion page for reference.Kjmonkey (talk) 21:02, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

OK, sounds fair enough. I'll raise it at RfD to resolve the question - I can't help feeling we'd have thousands of x-wiki redirects if they were generally acceptable, and this is the first one I've seen. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 21:18, 9 January 2011 (UTC)