GayVN Awards redirects   Thanks for your help in deleting the pages that were merged However Im disappointed that the redirects werent deleted regardless of how cheap they are   I cant find anything that says redirects have to be kept in the case of merging a page Which would make sense in most cases Im sure but not when the name of the merged page is not one that someone would likely search for I can however find support for deleting them WikipediaRedirectWhen should we delete a redirect item  states The redirect page makes it unreasonably difficult for users to locate similarly named articles via the search engine  I believe that leaving the redirects meets this guideline Heres the top of the results list when searching for gayvn in order of appearance There are  results listed Redirects are marked R correct pages are bolded Nonexistent pages are italicized  GAYVN Awards R capitalization  keep is useful  GayVN awards R capitalization  keep is useful  GayVN Award R Singular rather than plural  keep is useful  GayVN Awards Article page   GayVN Awards R  Talk GayVN Awards Talk page   GayVN Awards R   GayVN Awards R   GayVN Awards R   GayVN Awards Page is listed but doesnt exist so results in a Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name page being displayed   GayVN Awards R   GayVN Awards R   GayVN Awards R  st GayVN Awards  R  nd GayVN Awards R  th GayVN Awards R  th GayVN Awards Page is listed but doesnt exist so results in a Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name page being displayed  rd GayVN Awards R  st GayVN Awards R Redirects to  GayVN Awards R double redirect  th GayVN Awards R  Arabesque gay film  Wilfried Knight  Brice Ebson  and others   Having to slog through  extraneous hits for nonuseful redirect pages seems unreasonable to me its nearly a third of the search results The redirects arent useful as they are too specific to be considered likely search phrases  User may exist but  is a volatile IP address Keeping a comment directed at a particular user of a volatile IP address that may never be used by that particular user again about a page that has been mergeddeleted seems needless While equally useless for some reason he doesnt show up in the search list More evidence that theres something wrong with the index   and  show up further down on the list as well neither of these pages contains any reference to GayVN theyre both blank Im sure they did in the past as they were probably sandboxes for articles However there has been no activity on either page since  June    also shows up in the search results but doesnt mention GayVN anywhere on that page nor has she done so since  April That entry appears to be part of a copy and paste of another users contributions log with comments and was created by a user with an IP address most likely Fabartuss however  In these cases and the case of the two pages listed above that dont actually exist but are being returned as part of the search results I think theres an obvious glitch somewhere  apparently in the search engine indexing Is it not being refreshed on a regular basis I thought it happened every  hours  Any road it would be nice to have the  redirect pages removed and their entries in the search results eliminated and Im not sure that the former results in the latter Equally desirable would be to have the search index updated to reflect the nonexistence of pages Is that something that you can do or know to whom a request should be made to do so  Any chance of some further assistance here  Thanks