Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 April 19#Knowledge Graph
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==The Needs of the Many==
==List of==
: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 = List of }} → :List (talk · links · history · stats)
[ Closure: [{{fullurl:List of|action=edit&summary={{Urlencode:main}}#List of closed as keep}}}} keep]/[{{fullurl:List of|action=edit&summary={{Urlencode:main}}#List of closed as retarget}}}} retarget]/[{{fullurl:List of|action=delete&wpReason={{Urlencode:main}}#List of closed as delete}}&wpMovetalk=1}} delete] ]
{{old rfd list|Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2016 October 2#List of|delete|Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2009_February_16#List_of_.E2.86.92_Portal:Contents.2FLists_of_topics|delete}}
Previously deleted at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2016 October 2#List of, though consensus was not quite clear; no reference to that discussion in the recreation though. Right now this appears at the top of the search box when entering "List of", which I imagine is more confusing than helpful. 1234qwer1234qwer4 04:45, 23 March 2025 (UTC)
- Keep as is. The redirect target at the time of the 2016 discussion was List of lists of lists. When a new redirect was created in 2020, it was to a different target, List, which was then a disambiguation page, and is now a substantive article on the concept of a list. For a reader actually linking or searching for the exact phrase, "List of", this seems to be a perfectly fine result. BD2412 T 16:15, 23 March 2025 (UTC)
- Keep and add a hatnote similar to that found at List of lists of lists which directs people to where they can find lists on Wikipedia. Thryduulf (talk) 23:24, 23 March 2025 (UTC)
- Delete. The use of the phrase "List of" on Wikipedia is incredibly meta to Wikipedia; as a search term used by readers, the redirect is not a plausible one as both an incomplete phrase and leaves the question "list of ... WHAT?" Steel1943 (talk) 16:28, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
- :I completely disagree with the first part of your assertion - this is a plausible search term for someone looking for either encyclopaedic information about lists of things (the current target) or an index to lists of things (to be linked in my proposed hatnote). The unspecified topic of the list is exactly why this is not being proposed to target a specific individual list but an index to them. Thryduulf (talk) 19:05, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
- ::Frankly I do not see this being a plausible search term in this conspicuously incomplete form. 1234qwer1234qwer4 08:58, 31 March 2025 (UTC)
- Retarget to the target of the previous Rfd - List of lists of lists. That was a decade back, and consensus can change, and as the nomination says: "consensus was not quite clear". I find "List of" analogous to List of things or List of entities or List index, all of which redirect to my proposed target. Jay 💬 12:13, 31 March 2025 (UTC)
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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, mwwv converse∫edits 11:58, 10 April 2025 (UTC)
:Keep per BD. charlotte 👸♥ 00:46, 18 April 2025 (UTC)
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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, RanDom 404 (talk) 23:37, 19 April 2025 (UTC)
- Retarget to List of lists of lists, where one can find the top-level "list of ____". -- Tavix (talk) 23:59, 19 April 2025 (UTC)
- Retarget to List of lists of lists, essentially per Jay's rationale that the term does feel more analogous to someone wanting to find a directory lists of "stuff", rather than an article on what a List means. The fact that as a search time, a reader has to type more than simply "List" would indicate to me that in this scenario, they wish for something beyond the article List. I'd also not be averse to outright delete, as it's perhaps a weak search term, at best, given it's incomplete nature. Bungle (talk • contribs) 07:51, 20 April 2025 (UTC)
- Retarget to List of lists of lists, per above. Supertian8 (talk) 18:32, 23 April 2025 (UTC)
- Retarget to List of lists of lists per Jay and Tavix; this got [https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&range=last-year&pages=List_of over 13,000 pageviews in 2024] so I think pointing somewhere is better than deletion given the heavy use of this redirect. 04:07, 27 April 2025 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hog Farm (talk • contribs)
: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).
