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: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 Pad (music), no consensus on the others
. Those who've expressed an opinion have generally found that Pad (music) is definitely ambiguous and lacks a good single target, as it has some wildly differing meanings even within a musical context. The other two links to the nonexistent section have not reached any kind of useful consensus to enforce here - if someone wants to have another try at restoring Synth pad and preferably sourcing it, then that's very much permitted by this discussion, as is any other attempt to incorporate a useful mention somewhere else. ~ mazca talk 14:28, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
- {{no redirect|1 = Pad (music) }} → :Synthesizer#Synth pad (talk · links · [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pad_(music)&action=history history] · [https://iw.toolforge.org/pageviews?start=2020-11-05&end=2020-12-04&project=en.wikipedia.org&pages=Pad_%28music%29 stats]) [ Closure: {{#ifeq:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|(@subpage)|[{{fullurl:Pad (music)|action=edit&summary={{Urlencode:{{FULLPAGENAME}}#Pad (music) closed as keep}}}} keep]/[{{fullurl:Pad (music)|action=edit&summary={{Urlencode:{{FULLPAGENAME}}#Pad (music) closed as retarget}}}} retarget]/[{{fullurl:Pad (music)|action=delete&wpReason={{Urlencode:{{FULLPAGENAME}}#Pad (music) closed as delete}}&wpMovetalk=1}} delete]}} ]
- {{no redirect|1 = Synth pad }} → :Synthesizer#Synth pad (talk · links · [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Synth_pad&action=history history] · [https://iw.toolforge.org/pageviews?start=2020-11-05&end=2020-12-04&project=en.wikipedia.org&pages=Synth_pad stats]) [ Closure: {{#ifeq:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|(@subpage)|[{{fullurl:Synth pad|action=edit&summary={{Urlencode:{{FULLPAGENAME}}#Synth pad closed as keep}}}} keep]/[{{fullurl:Synth pad|action=edit&summary={{Urlencode:{{FULLPAGENAME}}#Synth pad closed as retarget}}}} retarget]/[{{fullurl:Synth pad|action=delete&wpReason={{Urlencode:{{FULLPAGENAME}}#Synth pad closed as delete}}&wpMovetalk=1}} delete]}} ]
- {{no redirect|1 = Synth pads }} → :Synthesizer#Synth pad (talk · links · [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Synth_pads&action=history history] · [https://iw.toolforge.org/pageviews?start=2020-11-05&end=2020-12-04&project=en.wikipedia.org&pages=Synth_pads stats]) [ Closure: {{#ifeq:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|(@subpage)|[{{fullurl:Synth pads|action=edit&summary={{Urlencode:{{FULLPAGENAME}}#Synth pads closed as keep}}}} keep]/[{{fullurl:Synth pads|action=edit&summary={{Urlencode:{{FULLPAGENAME}}#Synth pads closed as retarget}}}} retarget]/[{{fullurl:Synth pads|action=delete&wpReason={{Urlencode:{{FULLPAGENAME}}#Synth pads closed as delete}}&wpMovetalk=1}} delete]}} ]
Request deletion. The target section "Synth Pad" does not exist in the target article. The target article also does not mention pads (in the sense of a certain kind of synthesizer tone, not in the sense of a piece of hardware) at all. Unless somebody amends the "Synthesizer" article, this redirect is therefor completely misleading and should be a redlink. Taschenschieber (talk) 03:06, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
- Comment Adding {{-r|synth pad}} and {{-r|synth pads}} to this nomination, as they point to the same non-existent section. The target section was removed from the article about a year ago by User:Popcornfud. FWIW, {{-r|synth pad}} has a totally unsourced stub in its history before it was redirected. 61.239.39.90 (talk) 04:46, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
- Restore article per WP:BLAR and retarget the others to it. Neither being a stub nor being unsourced are reasons for deletion in themselves, and the former article does not meet any actual speedy deletion criteria - indeed if it's correct (and a 1 minute google search suggests it's at the very least plausible) this is the sort of thing we should have an encyclopaedia article about. Thryduulf (talk) 11:35, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
- Comment: I would oppose restoring the standalone synth pad article - what there is to write about it could basically be summarised in a sentence or two, and I think it's extremely unlikely that anyone's going to collect a lot of notable sourced information to fill an entire article any time soon. But "synth pad" is a term that someone might plausibly enter into the encyclopaedia and expect to read something about. Ideally, it would be covered in the synthesizer article as part of some explanation of the assorted sounds synths are typically used to make (basslines, leads, percussion etc). The synthesizer article used to cover those things, but I removed it as part of some other drastic tidying - it was poorly written and unsourced, and had been for a long time.
:Also - "pad (music)" needs disambiguating. If you google "music pad" most hits are about physical pads you hit on midi controllers, which is not what "synth pad" refers to. Popcornfud (talk) 13:01, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
- Comment: As the person starting this discussion, my 2 ct is that this term should be defined in an encyclopedia, it probably could have enough written about it to be more than a stub, and that it should *not* be shoved into a section of the "Synthesizer" article because, tbh, it is a fairly minor topic and I feel like it would bog down that article - especially if the same policy were applied to every term of a similar complexity. I fully agree that "Pad (music)" is a weird title, "Pad (synthesizer tone)" or something like that might be better. --Taschenschieber (talk) 08:41, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, CycloneYoris talk! 05:15, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
- Comment. {{-r|Pad (music)}} is in a different category from the other two, and is ambiguous. Wind instruments (flute, oboe, bassoon, clarinet, sax, etc.) have pads which stop the keyed holes. Our best description seems to be at Clarinet#Pads. Narky Blert (talk) 12:00, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
- Comment this has some mention in the Disco article about padding. Also listed officially as a term in the Roland glossary of synthesizer terms.[https://rolandcorp.com.au/blog/a-to-z-synthesizer#SGP] AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 15:59, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, signed, Rosguill talk 20:31, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
- Delete the first as too ambiguous / no clear target. Restore Synth pad per Thryduulf. I have doubts as to its long-term viability, but it's not so obviously bad as to run afoul of CSD criteria or anything. No prejudice against swiftly sending it to AfD. Logically, then, retarget the third to the restored article. --BDD (talk) 21:05, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
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