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March 2012

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Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from Joint operating agreement. When removing content, please specify a reason in the edit summary and discuss edits that are likely to be controversial on the article's talk page. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the content has been restored, as you can see from the page history. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. TexasAndroid (talk) 19:08, 1 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You have three options,

  1. Leave the redirect as is
  2. Actually create something there (i.e. an article)
  3. Delete it

You can't just leave a blank article in the hope something will happen to it. - Happysailor (Talk) 19:23, 1 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

My key problem in all this is that blanking of articles (or redirects) is (almost) never the correct way to do things. Blank articles create a number of problems on the project. I personally patrol for short or blank articles regularly, which is how I got into this with you. I really do not care what happens to this particular article/redirect, as long as it is not certain situations that are simply wrong for the project. And blanking it is one of the biggest of those.
HappySailor lays out your options above pretty well. If you want it deleted, the correct way to do that is to follow the directions at WP:RFD. Lay out your arguments for deletion, check back regularly to respond to those who may have opposing views. WP:RFD is a debate, aimed at finding a consensus solution.
Or, if you can come up with at least one more article that the topic relates directly two, a disambiguation could be written at the spot. A disambiguation is a type of short article that is put into place when a word or phrase applies to more than one article, and we want to show users the choice of which they might want to visit. - TexasAndroid (talk) 20:13, 1 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]