Talk:Cere

Cere is not a page

When I search Wikipedia for "Cere" I get, "There is a page named Cere on Wikipedia". This seems wrong.

• Cere is redirected to a section of Beak. But Cere is not a page, it's a section. The fact that it is a redirection is hidden unless you move to the top of the article from the presented section.

• The section mechanism of redirection does not work if Java is not enabled. This has ramifications here because "cere", meaning "wax", could end up going to Beak, which would imply wrongly that beaks are wax. (It happened.) (Cere means

• No, I'm not arguing against the redirection mechanism as it is. I agree with a redirect to a section: of a software developer their application, or of an author their book. These are different because they're conspecific to the developer, whereas not all Beak (the article title), have Cere (the section I argue should not thusly redirected). I would not say Cere is conspecific to beak.

• A redirect to a section that is not conspecific to it's article acts like a shorcut, but main namespace does not use shortcuts.

So I want to blank this redirect page for deletion. — CpiralCpiral 07:59, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Done. — CpiralCpiral 00:10, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

Errrr...sorry, but I don't think you get the whole idea about redirects, redirects to sections and the belief that blanking a page equals deleting it strongly suggests you are still are new to that to that too. So,  reverted. Thanks, Cyan Gardevoir ^{(used EDIT!)} 10:24, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

Resolved

 – Cere is a page on Wikipedia is an unfortunate trade-off between search engine, redirect, and the way "articulations" grow into articles out of sections.

I was confused seeing that Cere is not a page on WP (but before that, finding out that Cere is not a notable Latin root word.) Your style of interacting is fullfilling to me, Gardevoir. Thank you for putting it all so well. No politics (AFD) or law (template:delete) for this. Happy editing! — CpiralCpiral 18:36, 2 September 2012 (UTC)