all. Any entries in List of geological features on Venus which do not have their own article should be unlinked. Aervanath (talk) 21:59, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
mass deletion: there are 261 rd's to this page. Of them, only List of planitiae on Venus and List of tesserae on Venus are useful. The other 259 have the sole purpose of preventing red links in the article. But red links are useful: they show readers the work that is still needed, and encourage them to do it. By turning all the red links blue, these rd's hide the lack of content on WP, and we are likely to miss the opportunity of readers creating articles for at least some of them. (Sorry about the error this request is generating, but I'm not about to add a RFD to 259 rd's.) — kwami (talk) 06:52, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
::{{small| I have fixed the nomination and removed the error from the multi-select template, by adding the first item from the 259 entries.}} Jay (talk) 07:25, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
- Delete. Redirects from the list page back to the list page, to hide red links for articles not yet created, is unhelpful. GeoWriter (talk) 12:10, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
::how many of these redlinks are actually sufficiently notable to have their own pages? Makes more sense to remove the links, but keep the redirects as useful search terms.Polyamorph (talk) 17:59, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
{{cmt}} Is there a way to see what the other RDs are? I generally agree with the idea that red links are useful, but I feel uncomfortable !voting on 259 redirects I don't know of. snood1205(Say Hi! (talk)) 14:59, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
:::Most (if not all?) the blue links in the list article are self redirects. Polyamorph (talk) 08:20, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
::::{{ping|Polyamorph}} Not all. In the bottom half, the few blue links among the sea of red are actual articles. Presumably there are some of those among the sea of blue at the top, but I don't know which ones. — kwami (talk) 22:00, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
:::::The solution is simple. Just remove the self redirects. Per 1234qwer1234qwer4 below, to find all redirects to the list click the "What links here" button on the left hand toolbox Polyamorph (talk) 01:20, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
- Keep. The majority of these features are not notable. If some of them are notable, they should be nominated for deletion separately. Ruslik_Zero 20:48, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
- Keep. In general these features are not notable. Redirection to a list of geological features is thus appropriate. The wikilinks in the list article are not appropriate and should be removed. I agree with {{u|Ruslik0}}, the redirects for specific features which may be notable should be discussed individually. Polyamorph (talk) 08:18, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
::What of the remaining hundreds of red links? Should they also get rd's? And should the rd's be anchored to the entries, rather than just to the top of the list?
::IMO it makes sense to keep the rd's and delete the links, or keep the links and del. the rd's, but not to keep both. — kwami (talk) 11:13, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
:::Per WP:SELFRED, the page shouldn't include links to itself. If the features aren't independently notable, remove the links from the list, regardless of their color. - Eureka Lott 11:36, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
::::The users above answer perfectly for me. Just remove the self redirects and red links (of non-notable entries) in the list. Polyamorph (talk) 01:20, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
- If List of planitiae on Venus and List of tesserae on Venus are useful, what about List of undae on Venus? Jay (talk) 12:10, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
- If it's a List of feature-type on Venus redirect to a section for "feature-type", then it should probably be kept around -- 65.92.246.43 (talk) 03:18, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
- Comment: either all the nominated redirects should be tagged or this nomination should be procedurally closed. Without the tags, potential page-watchers have no way of knowing about this discussion. - Eureka Lott 11:36, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
:*Agree with procedural close. Polyamorph (talk) 01:33, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
:@Snood1205 Since Polyamorph's answer only described the containment links ⊆ redirects, which is pretty much irrelevant to your question since there may be other redirects: Special:WhatLinksHere. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 22:39, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
- Keep. Redirects are cheap and these meet none of the criteria on WP:RDELETE. The solution to the nominator's concern is to unlink them in the list article. Having said that, it does highlight a gap in the notability guidelines. WP:NGEO says that named natural features are by default notable, but explicitly states it applies only to Earth. WP:NASTRO says that named astronomical objects (e.g. asteroids) are by default not notable and should be redirected to the relevant list, but applies to whole bodies not features upon them. It's not obvious which is the more relevant guideline here, and therefore which of these redirects might get turned into full articles in future. Modest Genius talk 17:42, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
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