Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 March 1#Wikipedia talk:SOAP
=[[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 March 1|March 1]]=
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==Wikipedia:BC==
: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 disambiguate
- {{no redirect|1 = Wikipedia:BC }} → :Wikipedia:WikiProject British Columbia (talk · links · history · stats)
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This page should be made a disambiguation page, for the reason that I outline for other redirects (edited) of this ilk: undue focus (to quote another RfD commentor) on a niche WikiProject, when there are a few other pages (like WP:Bureaucrats) that can also fit this acronym. Even though the Brit. Col. WikiProject is not as dormant as others, it is still not fairly accommodating all navigators of this redirect. NotReallySoroka (talk) 06:11, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
- For another example of provincial WikiProject being dabified this way, see WP:MB and its RfD. NotReallySoroka (talk) 06:15, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
- Oppose per all my comments at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 February 13#MS and Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 February 12#EE. Unless you can show some evidence of this redirect being actually (not theoretically) problematic (for example by a significant proportion of links being intended for a different target than the current one) then there is only harm and no benefit from change. Thryduulf (talk) 10:59, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
- Disambiguate, but not per the nominator, who has failed to advance any convincing rationale for why this should be disambiguated. Potential ambiguity is not on it's own a sufficient reason to break incoming links, nor are vague assertions that the target is niche. The whole point of shortcut redirects is to provide a quick way of navigating to pages, disambiguation essentially destroys a large part of the utility of them. This should be disambiguated because it originally targeted WP:Bootcamp, and was widely used in welcome templates for new users before being retargeted to point at the wikiproject, in fact WT:BC still points to the old place. Doing a spot check of incoming links to this redirect suggests to me that a significant proportion of them (certainly several thousand) are supposed to be targeting the help page. 192.76.8.70 (talk) 11:48, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Jay (talk) 16:29, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
- Disambiguate per 192.76.8.70. There appear to be a very large number of incoming links intending the Bootcamp, and as far as I can see only about two dozen uses for the British Columbia project. The dab page could then also have entries for MOS:BC (probably a more plausible target than any other), Wikipedia:Basic copyediting, and possibly others. – Uanfala (talk) 00:08, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, CycloneYoris talk! 06:28, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
- Disambiguate per Uanfala. Many possible targets, and a dab page with those would be helpful. In addition to what Uanfala has pointed out, WP:Bureaucrats, WP:Content assessment/B-Class criteria, WP:Birthday Committee and perhaps Wikipedia:Broadly construed could be added to the disambiguation page. eviolite (talk) 16:21, 1 March 2022 (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.