Talk:Apt

There is a French city Apt so this shortcut is inapproptiate. &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 08:27, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
 * You're right; we should delete this shortcut. What should we substitute? Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:43, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
 * The only downside of deleting it is that we have a lot of talk page messages and edit summaries pointing to it. To avoid breaking those, would it make more sense to turn this into a disambiguation page? -- Ryan &bull; (talk) &bull; 08:52, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
 * That would be a reasonable approach, but Apt should probably be changed to WV:Apt anyway. Didn't we decide at some stage that shortcuts should be in the project namespace? &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 09:38, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Current guidance is that no shortcuts should be created in mainspace that point to the project namespace. However, the "Apt" shortcut existed before that practice was adopted.  Special:WhatLinksHere/Apt shows over 200 links to the current shortcut, and there are countless more in edit summaries, so for historic reasons I think we want at least a pointer to the policy page somewhere on whatever the "Apt" page becomes so that someone following one of those legacy links won't be confused. -- Ryan &bull; (talk) &bull; 10:07, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

VFD discussion
A redirect to Listings. There is also a town in France called Apt, which may well need an article in the future, and is already mentioned in several articles of the region. My thinking is it is better to redlink (and possibly be created) than to bump a traveller from planning a trip in France to reading about Wikivoyage policy! Furthermore, the redirect is unnecessary, as we already have the WV:Apt shortcut, and redirects at Apartment listings and Apartment rentals. --ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 12:58, 15 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Apt is linked from over 100 pages, mainly user talk pages. Maybe it would be easier to made it a disambiguation page linking to Apt (France). AlasdairW (talk) 20:28, 15 August 2018 (UTC)


 * I think that if someone wants to do the work, they should create an article for the town of Apt and eliminate the shortcut. Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:05, 18 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Result: kept. --Comment by Selfie City  (talk about my contributions ) 21:23, 3 September 2018 (UTC)