Semantically a slash and a bracket do exactly the same thing A subpage is not only one containing a slash in the title a subpage is any page that creates a rigid hierarchy of articles Your brackets cause exactly the same problem I have with the slashes As I said putting television in the main title while relegating country to a note ignores that the country television formation is just as valid 1976 in Canada television is just as valid a heading for this content as 1976 in television Canada Using your title makes it seem as though the page could only ever be considered a subdivision of 1976 in television ignoring that it will also be a subdivision of 1976 in Canada Also please review WP CSD That you consider redirects to be incongruous and useless is not a speedy deletion criteria RfD is not a complicated process and it is really unacceptable for someone who has been an admin for close to a year to be deleting pages without following procedure