Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Rawls, John

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The result was: Keep. ~ Ningauble (talk) 15:45, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Rawls, John

Unnecessary redirect — _W^\|/_haledad (Talk to me) 05:07, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

• Vote closes: 06:00, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

• Keep. These redirect are useful (for example because they expand the search function) and quite common on Wikiquote: For example, since Jan 2008 BD2412 alone created over 700 of these "last-name-first redirect". See also User talk:Ningauble#Rawls, John. -- Mdd (talk) 09:30, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
• Keep: Sorry, I fail to see why you would want to delete these. ~ Daniel Tomé (talk) 10:03, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
• Keep · Though I generally don't find such redirects worth creating, I personally find less worth in efforts to eliminate them where others believe they might be useful. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:36, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
• Keep - I don't see any harm in having these redirects since they help some search for pages. ~ UDScott (talk) 18:01, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
• Keep per above; may be useful.--Abramsky (talk) 13:28, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
• Keep per longstanding practice of reference works to list subjects by last name first, which would lead readers to have a reasonable expectation that such a search would return the person searched for in this way. BD2412 T 00:03, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

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