Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2018 September 10#Siamensis
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==Miscellaneous far left==
: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 Retarget to Miscellaneous left and Miscellaneous right
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Not very plausible. — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs) 22:27, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
- Retarget to Miscellaneous left and Miscellaneous right as appropriate, which are apparently terms with specific meaning in French elections. There are some sources that use the "far" adjective, and they fall into two types - non-specific uses with a strictly sum of parts meaning of "miscellaneous" + "far right parties"/"far right groups"/etc (and the same with left); and apparently specific uses in the context of French elections (usually, but not exclusively, regional elections). The incomming article space links are also all related to elections in France. I didn't know this before researching these redirects, and it's likely that many other non-French people will also not know and turn to Wikipedia to find out, but the current targets don't really help. Thryduulf (talk) 23:11, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
- Retarget - I agree. These should go to 'Miscellaneous left' and 'Miscellaneous right' since there's no clear use of the label "miscellaneous" with a specific definition otherwise that I can see (although perhaps some other country, somewhere, has similar voting policies). CoffeeWithMarkets (talk) 07:28, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
- Retarget as above. I don't see use of this besides in politics, and these are more adjectives like "extreme" or "hard" AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 17:20, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
- Delete, Wikipedia does not cover this topic—it's too specific an intersection. On one hand, the current targets do not cover "miscellaneous". On the other hand, the miscellanous articles do not cover the far left/right. -- Tavix (talk) 19:53, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
- Except that's not true - the miscellaneous left/right pages cover all left/right wing ideologies including moderate, far and extreme. Thryduulf (talk) 23:18, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
- The ideologies may cover this, but the articles do not. I do not learn anything specific about the miscellaneous far left/right by visiting these articles. -- Tavix (talk) 19:19, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
- It sounds like you think the primary use of this will be by people who want to know what distinguishes the "miscellaneous far left" from other "miscellaneous left" policies/parties - by the very nature of the topic this is not something a general purpose encyclopaedia can cover as it would need to examine countless individual candidates. In contrast I believe that it is very significantly more likely that the people who will use these redirects will actually be looking for an explanation of the "miscellaneous" term, already understanding the relationship between "left" and "far left" (all equally applying to the right of course). I know little about French politics but that is the exact state I was in when I started investigating these redirects and the "miscellaneous left"/"miscellaneous right" articles were exactly what helped me and exactly the target that I would have wanted to be taken to had I encountered this term while reading an article. Even if the articles aren't exactly what everybody is looking for (although I suspect it will be for the significant majority), that is still significantly more helpful than a redlink or unpredictable search results. Thryduulf (talk) 19:36, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
- General information about the miscellaneous left/right does not help those looking specifically for information on the miscellaneous far left/right. If I simply wanted general information on the miscellaneous left/right, I would use those terms. Furthermore, I think it's rather biased to say that the better target is Miscellaneous left/right simply because you are more familiar with the term "far", rather than "miscellaneous". Other people may have the opposite problem, whereas they are already aware of the term "miscellaneous", but may not know what "far" means. Your proposed target, since it does not contain any information on "far", is not helpful for those purposes. Since we cannot give them the intersection of those terms becuase Wikipedia does not cover it in one location, deletion is therefore the only option that resolves this issue. -- Tavix (talk) 19:46, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
- In other words, it isn't possible to help everybody therefore we should help nobody rather than many, possibly most, people. I could not disagree more. Thryduulf (talk) 22:51, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
- In other words, there is not an accurate target that explains this term, so people are already not being helped by this redirect, which deletion resolves. -- Tavix (talk) 13:48, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
- But as I pointed out in my very first comment, at least some people will be helped by the new target - I would have been for example, and I know that there are lot of other people with similar levels of political knowledge to me who will also be helped by the miscellaneous left/right articles. If you know that "far right" is a subset of "right" and "far left" is a subset of "left wing" (which is actually very common knowledge) then miscellaneous right and miscellaneous left tell you everything you need to know to gain a basic understanding of the the term you heard/read. Thryduulf (talk) 16:56, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
- But you're extrapolating beyond what the article tells you, and we should not assume others have a similar political background. You already know what "far" means—others may not know that and will search using that term to try to figure out what "miscellaneous far left/right" means. The obvious (to me) problem is that they will not learn what that term means at the target. Therefore, we are doing a disservice to our readers by misleading them in this fashion. -- Tavix (talk) 17:27, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
- Except I'm not extrapolating, we are not misleading anybody and many if not most people will learn what they want to know. If they want to know what "far left" means they will be searching for "far left" not "miscellaneous far left". Thryduulf (talk) 23:22, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
- My apologies, I guess I missed where Miscellaneous left discusses the "miscellaneous far left" then. Could you please help me out and quote where the "miscellaneous far left" is specifically mentioned? -- Tavix (talk) 02:09, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
- The far left is a subset of the left (as is common knowledge politically, and the usual, obvious and correct meaning inferred from the normal English words. Not every subset needs to be explicitly mentioned in order for a redirect to be useful (as you have yourself argued on past occasions). However you know where the edit button is if you think that it is a problem on this occasion. Thryduulf (talk) 11:45, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
- Weak retarget as above. I'm sympathetic to Tavix's concerns, but the difference between "far left" and "left" is quite subjective. I can't realistically see us having articles at these titles, but I could see the redirects as proposed being of some use. --BDD (talk) 21:21, 19 September 2018 (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.