Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Foucault, Michel

~ Ningauble (talk) 15:46, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Foucault, Michel
Unnecessary redirect — W\&#124;/haledad (Talk to me) 05:09, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Vote closes: 06:00, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

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 * W\&#124;/haledad (Talk to me) 05:44, 27 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep, see Votes for deletion/Rawls, John
 * Keep · Though I generally don't find such redirects worth creating, I personally find less worth in efforts to eliminate them where others believe they might be useful. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:38, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep - I don't see any harm in having these redirects since they help some search for pages. ~ UDScott (talk) 18:02, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep Redirects are cheap. EVula // talk // &#9775;  // 18:55, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I guess Whaledad made an interesting point by stating: since a couple of months Google (and I suspect the other search engines have followed or will follow shortly) Google actually "deducts points" for contentless link pages in order thwart spammer activity. While a single Last,First redirect page will have only a slight effect on the search result listing of the associated First-Last page, hundreds of different Last,Frist page, all (in their left nav bar linking to our Main Page, Community Portal, Village Pump, etc will have a detrimental effect on the search results of those pages, as the negative influence is not a linear factor (measured against positive links) but as the number of neg links grow the negative value grows exponentially. Before you talk about search results listings, I suggest you read up on "Search Engine Optimization" (or mostly referred to as SEO). A whole new world will open up for you. W\|/haledad (Talk to me) 14:06, 28 February 2013 (UTC) Now I am no expert here. But these links were created in the first place to improve the internal Wikiquote search function. -- Mdd (talk) 14:58, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I am not greatly concerned about SEO and Google search position of our main page. Our Alexa rank has actually pulled ahead of ThinkExist since I checked last August, reaching #2 among all quotation sites. It is perhaps disappointing that our main page is not currently one of Google's top results for generic searches like "quote" and "quotations", but if this is caused by Google handling internal redirects clumsily, they will figure it out eventually. Right now their top search result for "quotation", after wikipedia.org, is the popup ad site quotationspage.com, which is a fine example of what SEO is for: delivering people to view content one is pushing, rather than delivering content that people are seeking. If that site is better "optimized" for Google in spite of being far behind our Alexa rank and reputation score then methinks the fault lies with Google, not with us. According to Alexa, about 35-40% of Wikiquote's traffic comes from search engines, which suggests to me that the majority of our traffic comes from actual referrals rather than generic searches. Our Alexa reputation score, measuring how many sites link to Wikiquote, leads all other quotation sites by a wide margin. I believe referals are much more important in the long term than the transient idiosyncrasies of search algorithms. ~ Ningauble (talk) 21:15, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep per above; may be useful.--Abramsky (talk) 13:27, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Strong keep. For hundreds of years, reference books have organized names by last name-comma-first name. These redirects serve the reader who might reasonably expect to find names in this way. BD2412 T 04:40, 2 March 2013 (UTC)