Talk:5th centuries

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• "Centuries" redirects: 5th centuries, 6th centuries, 7th centuries, 8th centuries, 10th centuries, 12th centuries, 14th centuries, and 15th centuries. These were created (apparently) to handle wikilinking of the following kind:
  ...in the [[6th century|6th]], [[7th century|7th]] and [[8th centuries]]...
  All of these redirects are now orphans but for user-space links; most were orphans before I touched them, and those that were not were in use by at most 2 articles (there were a couple that were in use by one article between them). I suggest these be deleted as a matter of cleanup in that the titles are grammatical assists rather than having the plural meaning that they should (i.e. the plural of "8th century" is nonsensical standing alone). Thanks for considering this. Courtland 01:04, August 4, 2005 (UTC)
  • We have a lof of redirects that are kept for purely grammatical reasons; plurals, adjectival forms, etc. So I'd say keep these too, they don't do any harm. Noel (talk) 04:25, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
  • I suppose that there's nothing wrong with keeping them, though I prefer the style "5th to 6th century", and presumably that's what most editors are using. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 20:43, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

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