. On one hand, it's harmless and may be used in old links. On the other hand, it's implausible as a search term. Neither side won the day. -- Tavix (talk) 03:58, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
Dubious redirect, extremely unlikely to be used by actual readers (who are likely to search for either the incipit or the more descriptive title), which was used only as a dubious way of not putting a piped link in the list of compositions by the composer. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 17:15, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
- Harmless {{tl|R from move}}, WP:RFD#KEEP#4 seems to apply. —Kusma (talk) 20:55, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
- :Except there is no incoming link (I've cleaned up what little there was, and if someone somehow willingly linked to this in an edit summary (I'd be surprised), they still wouldn't have difficulty actually finding the thing, ...) and this is otherwise not a useful redirect, as it is quite unlikely someone would link to the target article using this, and as a search term it is clearly useless as readers are likely to come upon the actual thing they're looking for using a much shorter query, and even if somehow they do search for something like it (ex. [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=This+is+the+day+which+the+Lord+hath+made+Anthem+for+Wedding+of+Princess+Anne&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go&ns0=1 here]) the correct article is already the very first thing on top... RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 21:53, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
- ::Keep, harmless, and deleting it would break the links in years of old versions of the articles you just fixed for too little gain. —Kusma (talk) 22:04, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
- :::"it would break the links in years of old versions of the articles" actually, it wouldn't, as the only significant use of this was in the navbox footer template (and of course, even when viewing an old version of an article, you see the current version of the template....). Outside of this idiosyncratic use, I only found two isolated examples ([https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_compositions_by_George_Frideric_Handel&diff=prev&oldid=1056246585]; [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Parnasso_in_festa&diff=prev&oldid=1056247229]). Red links in old versions of articles are not really a problem (for one, the kind of people looking at that would surely know how to find the correct article; doubly so since it is the first thing that would appear on top of their search anyway) Redirects might be cheap, but this one is just so fundamentally useless (and in addition might give bad ideas for creating other similar ones) that there's no point. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 00:56, 21 November 2021 (UTC)
- Keep as an R from move, specifically this was the original title of the article. A7V2 (talk) 05:57, 21 November 2021 (UTC)
- :This was moved from it's original title within 6 days of being created ([https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wedding_anthem_for_Princess_Anne&action=history]). There's nothing to be broken, and it's otherwise useless as a redirect. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 18:55, 21 November 2021 (UTC)
- Delete. I agree with RandomCanadian. This is clearly a case where keeping a redir after a move serves no actual purpose. This is just pointless clutter. Cf. WP:NOT#BUREAUCRACY. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 19:13, 21 November 2021 (UTC)
- Keep, [https://pageviews.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&range=all-time&pages=This_is_the_day_which_the_Lord_hath_made_or_Anthem_for_Wedding_of_Princess_Anne old links sure do exist]... — J947 ‡ message ⁓ edits 22:06, 21 November 2021 (UTC)
- :{{ping|J947}} That is surely because it was used in the Handel navbox template (which is now corrected, so even in old versions of articles there shouldn't be a problem). I'll re-iterate that the article was at this original title for a grand total of only 6 days... RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 22:25, 21 November 2021 (UTC)
- ::Sorry about that, should've read further through the RfD. So it's a used alternative name then? Good to know. And it is used. Why else would the creator create it? [http://gfhandel.org/handel/worklist/201to300.html] [http://www.greatmusicleaders.org/home/george_frederick_handel]. Additionally, those pageviews may not all be from the navbox; 6 days is enough time for old external links to accrue, so I'd be wary of deleting it. Anyhow, I'm not sure how needlessly changing links, and creating an RfD serves to eliminate "clutter". If anything, it creates it. — J947 ‡ message ⁓ edits 23:31, 21 November 2021 (UTC)
- :::It's not a "used alternative name". It's a composite of the incipit (i.e. {{bibleverse|Psalm|118:24|KJV}}) and of the usual designation for this (both of which can be used individually, but I have never seen them together in this fashion), which was apparently only used by the creator of this back in 2014 (and which was not updated in the template when the article was moved). RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 00:12, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
- ::::It is a used alternative name, as the links show. The fact that it isn't especially common in format or usage does not change that. It isn't immediately clear anyhow that it is two phases combined, and it is entirely reasonable that upon seeing it, the reader would search it up and be helped by this redirect to find their way to the article. I don't see why we should inconvenience those readers. — J947 ‡ message ⁓ edits 00:24, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
- :::::"It isn't immediately clear" - "This is the day which the Lord hath made or Anthem for Wedding of Princess Anne"... I've told you where the usage comes from: it's not the search engine, it was merely usage in a (one!) template... RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 00:35, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
- ::::::It's a small word sandwiched between more small words. The purpose of so many redirects is to factor in for people's misnomers. I don't see how this one is different. — J947 ‡ message ⁓ edits 01:19, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
- Delete: Desperately implausible search term, and I agree that it muddies the waters concerning the Biblical verse. "Inconveniencing the readers?" What readers? Ravenswing 02:29, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
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- Delete per nom and others. Should have never existed, and will never be used. Aza24 (talk) 08:13, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
- Weak keep: Certainly not wrong, harmless, gets around 10 pageviews a month. What's the value in deletion? ~~~~
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