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: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 delete
. -- Patar knight - chat/contributions 20:49, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
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Redirect from implausible typo. That's a zero in the redirect, if you're confused.
We simply don't need millions of zero-to-o misspelling redirects for every title with an o in it, and there's no reason to believe that Old English has any special need for something that no other title with an o in it has. Bearcat (talk) 19:51, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
- D3lete per nom --Lenticel (talk) 00:21, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Weak keep as a plausible typo given the proximity of 'o' and '0' on English keyboards in addition to not being immediately obvious. There was a previous discussion here, Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2020_May_2#0ld_English, which links out to similar examples which I've added in the template. Seeing these old discussions, '0' substitution redirects might be getting WP:COSTLY. ― Synpath 18:04, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
::If we keep this on those grounds, then we have to similarly create thousands upon thousands of 0-->O redirects for every single title we have with an O in it at all. The question isn't is that possible, it's "does Old English specifically have any special need for this that other titles with O's in them don't also have?" Bearcat (talk) 20:20, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
:::I'd say you'd want to avoid situations [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=0rnithine&title=Special%3ASearch&ns0=1 like this search for '0rnithine'] where you get the surprising/confusing result of no hits if you don't spot the typo. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?fulltext=1&search=0ld+english&title=Special%3ASearch&ns0=1 search results for '0ld English'] only brings up unrelated pages (discounting the redirect). Sometimes you get a spell-check suggestion [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=0il&title=Special%3ASearch&ns0=1 like this search for 0il], which makes redirects a bit redundant. Whether these should be created en masse is a different discussion, but if they show up I see no issue. ― Synpath 21:25, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Crouch, Swale (talk) 20:57, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per mom and since it would actually be "01d 3n61i5h". Steel1943 (talk) 21:49, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Weak keep {{tl|R from typo}} the [0]-key is next to the [o]-key on standard English-language QWERTY keyboards -- thus a likely occurrence as a typo -- we are also not creating new redirects, since this one has been around for 4 years now, and this is not a redirect creation request -- 65.92.247.66 (talk) 05:53, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
- Keep per the IP editor directly above me, and 0/O being additionally a plausible OCR error. We shouldn't routinely create these sorts of redirects, but neither should we routinely delete the ones that have been created. This has been around four years and there is no evidence that in that time it has opened the floodgate to the creation of similar redirects. Thryduulf (talk) 22:41, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per past discussions that discussed how swapping letters with numbers is not ideal. For the thousands of pages starting with "Old", there's only two instances of a page starting with "0ld". 0ld school is the other, which goes to the related DAB page (maybe there's a name that applies to that, but none of the titles there do, could be something to look into). But for this case, which has the redirect targeting an otherwise regular article, this redirect's existence is a confusing enigma that's better off removed. Unlike regular letter-typos, nobody who searches this would understand why a number-swap was accepted as an alternate spelling without getting the faulty impression that "numbers and letters can be used interchangeably". The need is not there. Even 9ld English is a likelier typo. Utopes (talk / cont) 06:02, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
- Delete Not a plausible typo to (arbitrarily) replace a letter with a number, and nothing about Old English that suggests an exception is warranted. Complex/Rational 21:12, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per nom et al. Not plausible enough for keeping. Replacing "O" with "0" isn't helpful. 0ld doesn't exist, and this one shouldn't either. CycloneYoris talk! 02:56, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
- :Delete per above rationale - 🐲 Jo the fire dragon 🐉(talk|contributions) 16:30, 12 February 2024 (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).