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Speedy deletion nomination of Gurgaon Institute of Technology and Management

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A tag has been placed on Gurgaon Institute of Technology and Management, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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The Bugle: Issue LXXXVIII, July 2013

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I didn't understand this edit. Can you explain? Dicklyon (talk) 03:59, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

The previous link was a redlink and it could not find the target article. It used an endash character, while an article exists with a hyphen. The edit made the redlink blue by changing the endash to a hyphen.. welsh (talk) 06:35, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
It looks to me like you had made a redirect to fix the redlink, several hours earlier. So when you did the "link repair" it was no longer a redlink. In general, in this kind of hyphen/dash mismatch, it would be good to look at which is correct and pick a correct fix. I used your contribs as a guide, and reverted many of your changes, fixing them the correct way instead (many of your others were correct, for which I thank you). Whenever the connection is between names of two different people or two different places, and someone has gone to the trouble to use an en dash to show that, "repairing" it back to a hyphen is a step in the wrong direction, even when it turns a redlink blue; an appropriate move or redirect is a better fix; sometimes a technical move request is needed. Dicklyon (talk) 17:00, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
Thanks. Despite editting for years I've only now encountered these guidelines. I will try to get it right now.welsh (talk) 19:01, 30 July 2013 (UTC)