Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Bad title


 * 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: Deleted and protected with a message. — jni 09:31, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Bad title
Unexplained redirect to Antoine de Saint-Exupery, which itself is a redirect to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. I considered speedy-deleting it, but I'm not certain that St-Ex didn't have a work with this title (in French, of course). &mdash; Jeff Q (talk) 09:14, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * VOTE CLOSED. Result: Deleted and protected with a message. jni 09:31, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I think this can be deleted, but except it to be re-created in some form because MediaWiki software has a curious feature to go to that page when it encounters a malformed link. For example, try to type as a page name in your browsers address bar, and you will be directed to [[Bad title. I don't know if it is possible to change this behaviour. jni 14:01, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I updated the page to show the text of MediaWiki:Badtitletext and protected it. I suggest we delete the history and the VfD tag from it, but leave the one version I put there to prevent constant re-creation. And maybe a warning/explanatory message on its talk. This is how WP handles this special case currently. jni 14:22, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete and re-create in the way Jni proposed. --Aphaia 18:39, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as Jni said, and the re-created page would also be protected, if I understood correctly? Sams 20:15, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as jni said. Jeff Q (talk) 04:40, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)


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