Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Transwiki:American history quotes Roaring 20s


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: move to project space. BD2412 T 00:25, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Transwiki:American history quotes Roaring 20s
Page from 2006 which contains no adequately sourced quotations. Content fairly disorganized and thematically disparate. --Tryst (talk) 17:54, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Vote closes: 17:54, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete --Tryst (talk) 17:54, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep. Pages in Transwiki space are in a sort of limbo. Occasionally, we have used such pages to provide source material for articles on corresponding topics. Since these are not in our regular page space, I see no reason to require that they conform to our rules for citation or organization. Alternately, we could move these to project space. BD2412 T 19:31, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep per BD2412. it's doing no harm, being a Transwiki page not an article.--Collingwood (talk) 20:28, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment - I found it through Special:Random, and while I understand now that Transwiki space is a limbo of sorts, is there a way to stop such pages turning up through the random page function ? --Tryst (talk) 20:47, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Not really, "Transwiki:" is a pseudo-namespace. The software treats these pages as ordinary articles. ~ Ningauble (talk) 21:22, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
 * What about making all the Transwiki pages subpages of a Wikiquote namespace page ("Transwiki central" or something :]) ?--Tryst (talk) 21:27, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
 * We could just move the lot of these to, e.g., Transwiki/American history quotes Roaring 20s (after deleting a bunch of redirects, there are only 54 of these). I'd be fine with that. BD2412 T 15:50, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * That would work. On the other hand, if you click "random" you shouldn't be surprised to stumble across some pretty random things. Regarding deletion of redirects from old transwiki pages, I thought we were supposed to keep the redirect chain intact for backlinks to the contribution history. ~ Ningauble (talk) 16:21, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I think BD2412's idea is good. Cross-namespace redirects are messy - what part of the history would be lost if they were deleted ? --Tryst (talk) 16:33, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * The talk pages generally have a copy of the page history at the wiki from which the transwiki originated. When a transwiki page is moved or merged into an article, the edit history and/or the "what links here" tool should allow you to find attribution for the original contributions. If the redirect is deleted then the backlink is gone, and we are left dependant on the possibility that an edit summary at the destination page may have mentioned where the content came from. ~ Ningauble (talk) 16:53, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I am checking now, but so far all the talk pages seem to have aready been moved to mainspace, along with the corresponding articles. BD2412 T 17:24, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * The only pages for which the transwiki talk page was not moved to the talk page corresponding to the article are Transwiki:Richard Feynman Quotes and Transwiki:Richard Feynman on UFOs; also, Talk:Non-Islamic views of Muhammad is appended to a redirect to Muhammad. BD2412 T 17:36, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Fine. I wasn't going to lose any sleep over it. ~ Ningauble (talk) 13:35, 3 May 2012 (UTC)