This request for deletion has been closed by Chaetodipus (talk · contribs). Please do not add any more comments and votes to this request. The result was to delete the Cigarette redirect and keep the NHS redirect..
Per @Acagastya:'s suggestion, these redirects may be unnecessary. NHS is too generic, and "cigarette" can refer to a tube containing substances other than tobacco intended for smoking. —chaetodipus (talk · contribs) 20:21, 11 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete the two. Re cigarette, cigarette is for smoking -- what you put in it is not fixed -- you can roll it with tobacco, or you can have cannabis. Re NHS, we literally had discussed about such globally unknown abbreviations (including this) and it is no mystery how much unnecessary effort of admins go behind fixing the ambigious names later being changed. If it should be NHS (UK), then don't put the burden on future maintainers, keep it that way from the start. We don't go by "what NHS means in Wikinews articles in the past" -- such mistakes takes hours of our time, when it comes to fixing the mess. We need to future-proof.•–• 06:11, 12 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: I think this request reeks of pedantry. For the sake of a theoretical future in which articles on another NHS or, even more bizarrely, tobacco in any other context would accumulate in sufficient notability and quantity as to require new categories, we are causing an unnecessary amount of inconvenience for the users of today. To prepare for one step forward, we're going two steps back. --JJLiu112 (talk) 04:04, 25 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I think the concept of "future proofing" is futile. Deleting NHS as a redirect just leads to deleting other redirects such as CIA or NASA or EU or USSR, etc, etc. The 'cigarette' question has slightly more merit, but I'd rather wait to fix it when it is an actual problem. --SVTCobra 02:21, 28 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
This request for deletion has been closed by Chaetodipus (talk · contribs). Please do not add any more comments and votes to this request. The result was to Delete all articles.
The subpage above contains a list of draft articles in userspace. Most of them are very stale, in some cases as much as 10 years old. This works in Wikipedia, where someone might spend years trying to write a decent article. However, Wikinews articles are stories that were fresh at the time of publishing. I can see no benefit to Wikinews in keeping dozens of stale, unpublished and unpublishable draft articles. I propose to delete all of the pages listed on the subpage in a weeks time. If there are any that could be salvaged, please indicate which ones and why. Note: There are some red links and struck out ones which are drafts that have already been deleted or will be. [24Cr][talk] 13:50, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
