Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 December 1#Quadratic extension
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==Quadratic extension==
==Wikipedia:Size==
==File:4 to Doomsday DVD cvr.png==
: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 keep
- {{no redirect|1 = File:4 to Doomsday DVD cvr.png }} → :File:Four to Doomsday DVD.png (talk · links · history · stats)
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Unused redirect; updated file location to actual episode title. -- /Alex/21 07:15, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
- Keep per WP:FILEREDIRECT. — J947 ‡ message ⁓ edits 07:26, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
- :Yes, there's a guideline, but what purpose does this redirect serve? -- /Alex/21 00:09, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
- ::Because the file was at this title for over 12 years, there are likely external links pointing to this redirect intending to point to the file. — J947 ‡ message ⁓ edits 00:23, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
- :::I see no such external links? Is this more an assumption? -- /Alex/21 00:25, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
- ::::It's an assumption. A simplified version of things: if the assumption is true, people will be harmed by the deletion of this redirect or helped by the existence of this redirect. If the assumption is false, no one will be helped or harmed by the deletion of this redirect or no one will be helped or harmed by the existence of this redirect. So either deleting this redirect is a net negative or a net neutral. Bear in mind that redirects are cheap. — J947 ‡ message ⁓ edits 00:29, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
- :::::This image is copyrighted. External links should not be referencing this image at all. If they want to use it, they will need their own fair use rationales on their own sites. Thus any external links are not a good reason to keep this around. Indeed it would seem to be a bad reason to keep it around, by facilitating copyright violations off site. Since Wikipedia is not COMMONS, the external sites linkage shouldn't really be an issue, since shared images come from Commons, shared among many projects, while English Wikipedia doesn't do this as a project goal. Copying the rule from COMMONS doesn't really help English Wikipedia in this case, since other wikipedias are not relying on English Wikipedia to serve their images. -- 65.92.246.43 (talk) 15:35, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
- ::::::It would not seemingly be inappropriate for a website to have provided {{plainlink|1=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:4_to_Doomsday_DVD_cvr.png|2=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:4_to_Doomsday_DVD_cvr.png}} for people to follow and view the image (while not hosting it themselves). Even if it is, that is not our concern. Moreover, someone may have stored the link privately (i.e. not publicly) for some reason or another. — Godsy (TALKCONT) 08:10, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
- :::Not to mention the page histories, which would be unnecessarily obfuscated. ~~
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User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 17:45, 3 December 2021 (UTC) - ::::Yet we delete templates all the time, even though they greatly damage historical versions of articles, when you try to see an old version, and the template no longer exists that formats the articles. As a cover image, this doesn't really obfuscate the article. -- 65.92.246.43 (talk) 15:35, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
- :::::Redirects are cheap. Unlike a template, its existence does not encourage new usage. ~~
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User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 17:34, 4 December 2021 (UTC) - Keep per WP:FILEREDIRECT. This page was created in 2009. Anyone visiting this file from a local or external link of the old name would be hampered by the deletion of this redirect. File redirects are retained unless the file was only at the former title for a short time. — Godsy (TALKCONT) 08:04, 6 December 2021 (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.