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[edit] Deletion requests

[edit] November 6

[edit] US

Brian wanted to kill this redirect on the basis that it shouldn't really be used in articles; we should link to United States instead would I assume be the implied meaning. Tempo restored because, wether we should or not (I'm prolly guilty and I know I shouldn't) a large number of pages link. I'm not altogether sure this should go; keep out of articles, yes, but if someone sticks 'US' in the search then the redirect becomes useful. Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 00:44, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Comments

[edit] Votes

• Keep While we probably shouldn't link to US (United States is better), this is a helpful redirect if someone decides to search for it (redirects to the US portal). Also, if we delete this, we'll have to correct the links in dozens of articles where it's used - which will take some significant effort. I think it's easier to let it be and simply discourage use of the redirect in the future. Tempodivalse [talk] 00:52, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
• Keep if nothing else for the people who punch "US" into the search box. Sorry to say, but us Americans are lazy and dont like typing out "United States of America" all the time. --ShakataGaNai ^{^_^} 20:55, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
• Keep As a proud, lazy American, I wholly support this. --Patrick M (TUFKAAP) (talk) 02:37, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
• Keep --Similar reasons to above.    Tris   13:02, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed deletions

Purge Cache. For reference, it is currently November 11, 2009.

[edit] Bot-imported news to be deleted

The following is a list of bot-imported news articles that have a date stamp of five days from the present date. They should be deleted as {{stale}}. There are no articles for this topic.

[edit] Undeletion requests