Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 November 24#Nogger
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==Foreign Secretaries==
: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 retarget
- {{no redirect|1 = Foreign Secretaries }} → :Ministry of foreign affairs (talk · links · history · stats)
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Foreign_Secretary or Foreign_Secretary#List_of_foreign_secretaries seems like a more logical target. Jean-de-Nivelle (talk) 21:55, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
- Keep. There are several countries that use this title, including India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Seems reasonable to redirect to the ministry that these people generally work in, rather than a specific British one. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 22:03, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
- :You make a valid point, but at present Foreign Secretary concerns the British office, while Foreign secretary is a disambiguation page, and both Foreign Secretaries and Foreign secretaries (which used to point to Foreign minister) redirect to Ministry of foreign affairs. Jean-de-Nivelle (talk) 23:18, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
- :[https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&start=2023-05-10&end=2023-11-10&pages=Foreign_Secretary|Foreign_Secretary_(India)|Foreign_Secretary_(Pakistan)|Foreign_Secretary_(Bangladesh)|Foreign_Secretary_(Sri_Lanka) Pageview analysis] Jean-de-Nivelle (talk) 00:35, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
- keep/retarget all variants for the current target indicated in the nomination. Whether the foreign secretary is an equivalent of the foreign minister, or the top bureaucrat in the foreign ministry, or the most senior diplomat in the foreign service, the current ministry target is the proper target. Foreign minister would be incorrect for the bureaucrat uses. -- 65.92.247.90 (talk) 00:47, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
- Retarget this particular redirect to Foreign Secretary per WP:PLURALPT: "the normal situation is that a plural redirects to its singular" and I can't see a reason to deviate from that guideline. Similarly, Foreign secretaries should really target Foreign secretary, although that's not the subject of this RfD. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 20:11, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
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{{resize|91%|Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.}}
Relisting comment: Retarget or keep?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, CycloneYoris talk! 23:37, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
- Retarget to Foreign Secretary per Shhnotsoloud. J947 ‡ edits 04:17, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
:The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. 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).