Forum:The Great Redirect Exodus: The Revenge

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So Lyrithya told me she's planning to delete a lot of redirects to make room for red links and asked me to make a forum about it. So... Which redirects do you think should be kept and which ones would you really like to see go down the drain? While you make up your mind, by all means, don't pay any attention to the cute little bunny eating away at your sanity. —Sir Socky (talk) (stalk) GUN SotM UotM PMotM UotY PotM WotM 10:43, 2 July 2011

I am? 1234 ~ 10:45, 2 July 2011

Just check your IRC logs, Lyrithya. It's in there somewhere. —Sir Socky (talk) (stalk) GUN SotM UotM PMotM UotY PotM WotM 10:51, 2 July 2011

They're like... fish. 1234 ~ 10:55, 2 July 2011

Keep fishing. —Sir Socky (talk) (stalk) GUN SotM UotM PMotM UotY PotM WotM 11:14, 2 July 2011

Kill the broken redirects. Leave the unbroken ones. Done. – Sir Skullthumper, MD (criticize • writings • critchat) 11:09 Jul 02, 2011

Um, the broken ones are pretty much a given. This forum is about the regular ones. —Sir Socky (talk) (stalk) GUN SotM UotM PMotM UotY PotM WotM 11:13, 2 July 2011

Francis Ford Coppola springs to mind. --Black Flamingo 11:36, July 2, 2011 (UTC)

I don't think we need to delete the regular ones, unless the redirect is irrelevant somehow. – Sir Skullthumper, MD (criticize • writings • critchat) 06:53 Jul 03, 2011

It's redirects like Flower that I mean - subjects that really should have articles on them, but people see them as red links and think, oh, that shouldn't be a red link, and redirect them. But that just makes them even less likely to wind up with actual articles, you know? 1234 ~ 07:19, 3 July 2011

But without those people might not find decent if only tangentially related articles, in particular people who read the wiki via searching for subjects or via bluelinks. I don't know what the solution is, cuz I see your point, but I also see the opposite point, and bleh. Maybe I can conjure up a version of Special:Wantedpages that's redirects-only, although to do so would be rather tricky. – Sir Skullthumper, MD (criticize • writings • critchat) 07:22 Jul 03, 2011

Possible solution: Do that thing, maybe put it on UN:REQ or just devote a section of UN:REQ entirely to redirects... but for the less necessary separate topics, why not just not redirect them at all?

Also, it'd be nice if it were easier to add stuff to UN:REQ... 1234 ~ 07:27, 3 July 2011

It'd be nice if UN:REQ didn't crash my computer. —Sir Socky (talk) (stalk) GUN SotM UotM PMotM UotY PotM WotM 09:49, 3 July 2011

Perhaps breaking UN:REQ into subpages might be advisable... >.< 1234 ~ 10:48, 3 July 2011