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While the phrase "status screen" is not used in the current target article, it was used in the article at the time the redirect was created. The redirect has existed since 2006 without any evidence of controversy, harm or confusion. While it's not a redirect that I would personally create, per
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I'm not sure what you mean that the "original page was deleted". Neither the history of the redirect page nor the history of any of the targets pages (the target has been updated several times) show any deleted history except briefly for a history-merger. It is also patently not a "typo". This
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pi, but they won't do any harm. The fact that they were created by two different people means that at least two people thought they were useful. Redirects aren't just for typos, and it is possible these were from copy-and-paste searches. ▫
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I agree with Rossami. This redirect does no-one any harm, and people who have never heard of pi and seen this number, might copy-paste it into Knowledge to see what it means. There is no real reason to remove this article.
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the digits in either but users might cut-and-paste them or find them somehow useful for external linking. They have existed without controversy for one and two years respectively. They are not harmful or confusing. So,
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We have had lots of discussions about similar numbers. The consensus has always been that while we wish editors would do something more useful than to create these, once they
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Out of curiosity, then, why don't we have the numbers between these two, such as 3.141592653589793238462643383279503 or 3.1415926535897932384626433832795029?
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This is just a little crazy on the number of digits. I do not think that anybody will type that many digits just to go to "
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Having said that, the general concept of a "status screen" is not unique to RPGs. I could see a good argument for
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Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the redirect's talk page or in a
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Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the redirect's talk page or in a
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to deleting them. Bear in mind that redirects do more than merely support the search engine. I wouldn't
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This is a list of redirects that have been proposed for deletion or other action on March 8, 2011
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The above is preserved as the archive of an RfD nomination. Please do not modify it.
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The above is preserved as the archive of an RfD nomination. Please do not modify it.
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The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more redirects.
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The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more redirects.
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redirect was deliberately created at this title in apparent good-faith.
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unless someone can present an actual showing of harm or confusion.
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and I don't see any real harm in keeping these redirects around. --
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Index

Knowledge:Redirects for discussion
Log
March 7
March 9
deletion review
HUD (video gaming)
Ruslik
Zero
15:54, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
Status screen
Role-playing video game
links to redirect
history
stats
JohnnyMrNinja
20:22, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Reaper Eternal
talk
HUD (video gaming)
Reaper Eternal
talk
13:08, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
WP:CHEAP
HUD (video gaming)
Rossami
(talk)
22:53, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
deletion review
Peridon
talk

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