:Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 May 19
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==Satyanathayati==
==Melinda Salisbury==
:The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more redirects. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the redirect's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
:The result of the discussion was delete
- {{no redirect|1 = Melinda Salisbury }} → :The Sin Eater's Daughter (talk · links · [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Melinda_Salisbury&action=history history] · [https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews?start=2020-04-19&end=2020-05-18&project=en.wikipedia.org&pages=Melinda_Salisbury stats])
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Salisbury is the author The Sin Eater's Daughter. There are just two articles that link to Melinda Salisbury, and both ALSO link to the book, in the same sentence.
Redirection, in a case like this, is a disservice to readers. They should be left as redlinks. Creating a redirection is maddening to readers, who will ask themselves, "didn't I just read this? This wikipedia is a pile of crap because it repeats itself."
It is also a disservice to the contributors who add new intellectual content, or keep our intellectual content up to date. Creating a redirect masks that there is a missing article.
The redirection should be deleted, and left as a redlink, until someone writes the article on Salisbury. Geo Swan (talk) 22:50, 19 May 2020 (UTC)''
- Delete to encourage article creation per nom, I don't see why it would make sense to redirect the creator of a work to the work itself rather than the other way around, as per the rationale for this failed AFC/R proposal from February 2015. Regards, SONIC678 00:12, 20 May 2020 (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.