Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 September 22: Difference between revisions

This is a list of redirects that have been proposed for deletion or other action on September 22, 2025.

We don’t maintain redirects for different capitalizations of user group names. The global user group is named “staff”, not “Staff”, and so having a redirect would only cause confusion. GTrang (talk) 03:23, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Some root vegetables, such as carrots, are not starchy vegetables. Some starchy vegetables, such as corn and butternut squash, are not root vegetables. See https://hopkinsdiabetesinfo.org/the-truth-about-starchy-vegetables/ Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 01:43, 15 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Retarget to Starch#Food as per Mx. Granger; it covers both starchy root vegetables AND starchy cereals; it doesn’t mention butternut squash but that can easily be added by an editor if it’s felt it’s a good addition. Either way, the redirect title isn’t “list of starchy vegetables”, it’s “starchy vegetable”, so listing every single starchy vegetable isn’t necessary– what IS good info that is presented in the new target but not the old, is the idea that starchy vegetables are usually *either* root vegetables *or* cereals, with a good number that are neither. 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫🌙🌙🌙 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱 (talk) 03:37, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Misleading and confusing redirect. The alpha privative is a prefix and not a standalone word. The standalone word “αν” instead means “if” in both Ancient and Modern Greek (compare wikt:αν/wikt:ἄν and wikt:αν-/wikt:ἀν-). Retargeting to conditional sentence or conditional mood fails WP:FORRED so delete. Warudo (talk) 13:52, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On second thought, we could also retarget to What If… (2012 film), whose Greek title is “Αν…”. We don’t need to retarget since Αν…, which I’ve made, already serves readers looking for the film, but it is an option. Warudo (talk) 14:48, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Move AV to Av, as we do when there is a mix of cases on a disambiguation page. BD2412 T 16:32, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  @BD2412 The redirect I nominated is made of the Greek letters Alpha and Nu. Your proposal is off topic in this RfD since neither AV nor Av (the Latin alphabet one) have been nominated. Warudo (talk) 16:55, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  To the typical reader this will look like nothing more than an “A” and a “v”. BD2412 T 18:17, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  It depends on the font and the casing. An upper-case alpha will generally be indistinguishable from a latin A, but a lower-case one is different. Likewise, a lower-case nu can look like a latin v in some fonts, but looks different in others. And an upper-case nu is indistinguishable from a a latin N. Regardless, your proposal is off-topic here. 35.139.154.158 (talk) 18:37, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete, without the trailing hyphen, this is the wrong target, and I don’t think there’s an appropriate one to retarget to. 35.139.154.158 (talk) 18:37, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment. I’d encourage someone to consider listing Alpha privative at WP:AFD. Although this particular prefix seems to have a name, which is unusual, it’s just a prefix, like any other, and not a linguistic feature, so it fails WP:NOTDICT. 35.139.154.158 (talk) 18:37, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  I agree in part. I don’t see much use for Alpha privative as a freestanding article, but surely there is an appropriate supertopic into which this can be merged. BD2412 T 20:00, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  You could merge alpha privative to privative, which is about all privative affixes. Warudo (talk) 20:22, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  That would be totally reasonable, yeah. 35.139.154.158 (talk) 22:01, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]