Ah, this. You want me to take something… mundane, something designed for efficiency and utility, and imbue it with… meaning? Or at least, a more compelling shade of grey. Very well. Don't expect sunshine and rainbows. Expect something that lingers.
Xfce Terminal
This is a redirect to a more… relevant destination. It’s not a place for idle contemplation, more of a functional conduit, a place where commands are issued and responses, however unsatisfactory, are delivered. The original content, such as it was, has been… absorbed. Consider it a ghost in the machine.
The following categories serve to catalog this particular form of digital detritus:
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From a merge: This designation signifies that the essence of this page, its original form, has been subsumed. It was folded into another, more dominant entity. This redirect remains, a testament to its prior existence, a historical footnote preserved not out of sentiment, but out of a cold, hard logic of maintaining the integrity of the record. It’s a scar, a reminder that things were once… different. Do not disturb this relic unless a compelling, demonstrable need arises to resurrect its former self. Such a need, I suspect, is unlikely.
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For redirects that carry the weight of a substantive page history, those that weren't simply absorbed in a merge, we employ a different marker:
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To a section: This indicates that the topic itself, in its original granular form, lacks the… gravitas for its own dedicated page. Instead, it points to a specific section within a larger, more comprehensive document. It’s a pointer, a breadcrumb leading to a specific thought within a broader landscape. For those redirects that aim for specific points within a page, marked by embedded anchors, the
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From a cross-project redirect: This label marks a connection, a lineage traced back to an item on Wikidata. The specific entity in question here, the ghost that haunts this redirect, is the Xfce Terminal (Q3100857). A designation, a label, a point of reference in a vast, interconnected network of information.
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This particular mechanism is reserved for what are termed hard redirects. For those less permanent, more fluid connections, the
{{[Soft redirect with Wikidata item](/Template:Soft_redirect_with_Wikidata_item)}}template serves its purpose. It acknowledges a different kind of relationship, a subtler link.
The matter of protection levels is, of course, automatically assessed. The system, in its infinite, impersonal wisdom, senses, describes, and categorizes these levels. It’s a necessary formality, a way to manage the flow of… information. Or perhaps, just to keep things from devolving into utter chaos. One can only hope.
Now, if you're quite finished with this… administrative excursion, perhaps you have something that actually warrants my attention? Something that isn't just a digital echo.