Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 July 11#Dumb fucks
=[[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 July 11|July 11]]=
==Sockpuppet redirects==
: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 redirect with space to toy, without space to Internet concept
- {{no redirect|1 = Sock puppeting }} → :Sockpuppet (Internet) (talk · links · [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sock_puppeting&action=history history] · [https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews?start=2020-06-11&end=2020-07-10&project=en.wikipedia.org&pages=Sock_puppeting stats])
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[ Closure: {{#ifeq:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|(@subpage)|[{{fullurl:SOCKPUPPET|action=edit&summary={{Urlencode:{{FULLPAGENAME}}#SOCKPUPPET closed as keep}}}} keep]/[{{fullurl:SOCKPUPPET|action=edit&summary={{Urlencode:{{FULLPAGENAME}}#SOCKPUPPET closed as retarget}}}} retarget]/[{{fullurl:SOCKPUPPET|action=delete&wpReason={{Urlencode:{{FULLPAGENAME}}#SOCKPUPPET closed as delete}}&wpMovetalk=1}} delete]}} ] - {{no redirect|1 = Sockepuppet }} → :Sock puppet (talk · links · [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sockepuppet&action=history history] · [https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews?start=2020-06-11&end=2020-07-10&project=en.wikipedia.org&pages=Sockepuppet stats])
[ Closure: {{#ifeq:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|(@subpage)|[{{fullurl:Sockepuppet|action=edit&summary={{Urlencode:{{FULLPAGENAME}}#Sockepuppet closed as keep}}}} keep]/[{{fullurl:Sockepuppet|action=edit&summary={{Urlencode:{{FULLPAGENAME}}#Sockepuppet closed as retarget}}}} retarget]/[{{fullurl:Sockepuppet|action=delete&wpReason={{Urlencode:{{FULLPAGENAME}}#Sockepuppet closed as delete}}&wpMovetalk=1}} delete]}} ] - {{no redirect|1 = Sock pupet }} → :Sock puppet (talk · links · [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sock_pupet&action=history history] · [https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews?start=2020-06-11&end=2020-07-10&project=en.wikipedia.org&pages=Sock_pupet stats])
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This is related to a proposal at Wikipedia talk:Sock puppetry to rename that page to remove the space in "sock puppetry". We have two articles, Sockpuppet (Internet) the form of online abuse, and Sock puppet the children's toy, with a mishmash of redirects pointing to both targets. I've found that some of these date back to a time when the Internet article was located at Internet sock puppet; it was renamed to its present title in 2006 but existing redirects were not updated, and many of them now redirect to the toy article. We should be consistent. Off the top of my head I propose that all redirects with a space should point to the toy, and those without should point to multiple account abuse. There are already hatnotes in place at both articles to handle misdirects and pointers to the Wikipedia policy. Except delete {{no redirect|1=Sockepuppet}}, it's an unlikely typo that's had only 26 hits in the last 5 years. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:44, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
- Retarget per nominator - i.e. those with spaces to the toy, those without to the internet term. Thryduulf (talk) 15:46, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
- Retarget the ones with spaces to Sock puppet and the ones without to Sockpuppet (Internet) to maintain consistency. However, delete Sockepuppet and Socketpuppet as unlikely typos; and also weak delete Sock-Puppet, while it might be useful when searching in an Internet searchbar and it got a slightly decent number of pageviews since July 2015, I'm not sure people would deliberately search for the topic like this. Regards, SONIC678 17:40, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
- :Note that in the past (e.g. [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sockpuppet_(Internet)&oldid=119053845 this 2007 version]) the term "socket" was listed as another name for an online sockpuppet, and I'm sure I've seen this written as "socket puppet" as well but can't find it now. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:10, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
- In spirit, I agree with retarget as proposed. However, in practice, there is a question of whether redirecting Sockpuppet to Sockpuppet (Internet), a parenthetically disambiguated version of itself, is acceptable. Generally, articles should not be at parenthetically disambiguated titles unless the base title is a disambiguation page or has another topic as the primary topic, with notable exceptions like Wikipedia:Naming conventions (UK Parliament constituencies) and WP:MUSICSERIES. So the following choices are compliant with baseline WP:AT/WP:DAB policy: 1) Sock puppet is an article on the toy, Sockpuppet is a redirect to Sock puppet, and Sockpuppet (Internet) is an article on multiple accounts; 2) Sock puppet is an article on the toy, Sockpuppet is a disambiguation page, and Sockpuppet (Internet) is an article on multiple accounts; 3) Sock puppet is an article on the toy, and Sockpuppet is an article on multiple accounts. In order to apply the spirit of what the nominator is trying to do in a technically compliant way, option 3 is the way to go. However, that could lead to confusion, i.e. whether the presence of a space is enough to distinguish the topics based on WP:SMALLDETAILS. It's possible to go WP:IAR and say that Sock puppet and Sockpuppet (Internet) (with a redirect from Sockpuppet) are the ideal titles for those articles, but then you are implicitly claiming that Sockpuppet is too ambiguous to be a title for the Internet terminology but not too ambiguous to be a primary redirect to it. I personally am undecided on this point, so I'd like to hear others' opinions. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 18:15, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
- :Good points. Typically such a thing comes down to which (if any) is the primary topic. My search results are definitely going to be skewed for this, but I get 700k ghits for "sockpuppet toy", 10.8M for "sock puppet toy", 440k for "sockpuppet doll", 1.08M for "sockpuppet troll", 2.7M for "sock puppet online", 9.8M for "sock puppet account", 1.0M for "sock puppet vandal". I think that suggests that the title with the space reliably identifies the toy, versus without the space reliably identifying the online account, and I really wasn't expecting the distinction to be that clear. I do wonder how these results would look for someone who hasn't been patrolling SPI for four years, though. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:32, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
- ::No, I agree with you that the online abuser is the primary topic of Sockpuppet (though I'm open to disambiguation as well). My question is whether it is ever acceptable to redirect Sockpuppet to Sockpuppet (Internet) without an explicit exception in our naming conventions. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 18:54, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
- :::I do see what you mean and I agree. I wasn't sure if a space was enough of a detail to disambiguate on but SMALLDETAILS seems to say that it is. I guess that's a matter for a move request at Talk:Sockpuppet (Internet) likely after this discussion closes. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:45, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
- Retarget per nom — Preceding unsigned comment added by Devokewater (talk • contribs) 18:42, July 11, 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.