gayvn awards redirects thanks for your help in deleting the pages that were merged however i'm disappointed that the redirects weren't deleted regardless of how cheap they are i can't find anything that says redirects have to be kept in the case of merging a page which would make sense in most cases i'm 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 wikipedia redirect when 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 here's 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 non existent 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 doesn't 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 doesn't 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 non useful redirect pages seems unreasonable to me it's nearly a third of the search results the redirects aren't 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 merged deleted seems needless while equally useless for some reason he doesn't show up in the search list more evidence that there's something wrong with the index user overdrive kent larson and user overdrive chris steele show up further down on the list as well neither of these pages contains any reference to gayvn they're both blank i'm sure they did in the past as they were probably sandboxes for articles however there has been no activity on either page since june user fabartus sandbox also shows up in the search results but doesn't mention gayvn anywhere on that page nor has s he done so since april that entry appears to be part of a copy and paste of another user's contributions log with comments and was created by a user with an ip address most likely fabartus's however in these cases and the case of the two pages listed above that don't actually exist but are being returned as part of the search results i think there's 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 i'm not sure that the former results in the latter equally desirable would be to have the search index updated to reflect the non existence 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 talk