Wikipedia entry on “Stab City” redirects to Limerick

The supposedly impartial Wikipedia administrators in their infinate wisdom have decided to redirect the page “stab city” to Limerick.

A discussion on the page resulted in the “stab city page being redirected to Limerick, this despite the fact that Limerick is not the only place in the world to be given the monikar.

The newly redirected page is now in breach of wikipedia rules as it it an inflammatory redirect.

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Reasons for deletion include, but are not limited to, the following:

* Advertising or other spam without relevant content (but not an article about an advertising related subject)
* Content not suitable for an encyclopedia
* Content forks
* Copyright infringement
* Hoax articles (but not articles describing a notable hoax)
* Images that are unused, obsolete, violate fair-use policy, or are unencyclopedic
* Inappropriate user pages
* Inflammatory redirects
* Articles that cannot possibly be attributed to reliable sources
* Article for which all attempts to find reliable sources to verify it have failed
* Articles about newly-coined words or terms (i.e. neologisms) not supported by reliable sources.
* Overcategorization
* Patent nonsense or gibberish
* Redundant templates
* Subject fails to meet the relevant notability guideline (WP:N, WP:BIO, WP:MUSIC, WP:CORP and so forth)
* Vandalism that is not correctable
* Any other usage of article, template, project, or user namespace that is contrary to the established separate policy for that namespace.

Sadly, Wikipedia don’t exactly make it easy to nominate a page for deletion. One has to be familiar with how the whole process works.

  • shan
    The poem or the fact that Limerick is being reffered to as 'stab city'?
  • To the point
    Sucks.
  • pathfinder
    Here's a Limerick from Limerick that I've composed (in Limerick). It uses some of the words from the Grammar Nazee poster from above:

    I’ll tell you a tale from over here
    There is an isle there, you hear?
    And on this board
    They get quite bored
    If you correct their they’re or there
  • Squid
    Not guilty your honour. I never even mentioned Los angeles in my post, see where the spelling error is BELOW my signature.
  • Maureen
    My favourite spelling mistake of the day was here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion#Stab_City_.E2.86.92_Limerick where you spelt Los Angeles as Los Angelous. Arf!
  • pathfinder
    Would that be spelling?
  • BockTheRobber
    Ded rite, Skwid. Yoo stik itt too thows splellilin nattsies. Spllellellen iz forr wimpps.
  • Squid
    It's the speeling nazis.

    <img src="http://marcvz.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/grammar-nazi.jpg">
  • pathfinder
    I'm not sure that it would be ironic. But it would take a hell of a lot of twine, though
  • To the point
    Wouldn't it be ironic if limerick was twined with LA.
  • Ballynanty Rovers
    No Squid, well spotted actually.
  • Squid
    @ballinanty rovers

    were you aware they were breaking their own rules by redirecting the page ages ago?
  • Shannaboley
    Thats just silly, La also has a stab city reputation. can you still edit wika?
  • Ballynanty Rovers
    Found that out ages ago. Sure what does it matter
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