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@Mclay1: This page (a quoted space) and '_' (a single-quoted underscore) are redirects to Quotation mark. Can you elaborate on why? This page has no inlinks from non-talk pages and the latter had just one, which appears to be in error (which I'll fix). I'll note this page was CSD'd in 2010 and similar requests at AfC were declined in 2014. It came up because of the confusing hatnote at Quotation mark. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 10:25, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

@AlanM1: My edits were over seven years ago, so I don't remember exactly what my reasons were. The only edit I made to '_' was to add categories. At the time, it was a redirect to another page, before it was redirected to Quotation mark three years later. As for this page, I assume I created it because I thought it was useful. I think some editors get too hung up on redirects with incoming links. Many linked redirects end up being bypassed to link directly to the actual page, so in my opinion, redirects are more useful as search terms. Anyone who is not familiar with the name of quotation marks could search for the symbols and be directed to the page about them. I didn't create the hatnote and agree that it did look a little confusing. M.Clay1 (talk) 23:10, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

@Mclay1: Agreed about the inlinks. Page views are relatively minimal (I added ¾ as a comparison of something else unlikely to be searched for). As far as searching, I can see someone searching for " or even "", but " " and ' ' don't seem likely, and it seems impractical and unnecessary to create single- and double-quoted and space-separated versions of characters, not to mention strings and other forms of quoting them all. I thought you created it since you were first in the history; I don't seem to be able to see how/when it was created ([1] only shows a CSD in 2010. I'll go ahead and list the two pages for deletion discussion. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 06:15, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

@AlanM1: I'm not the first in the history for '_'. I likely created this page because "" already existed as a different redirect. M.Clay1 (talk) 06:24, 18 November 2018 (UTC)