[Wikipedia-l] Making redirects out of bad page names

[Ray Saintonge]

Brion VIBBER wrote:

> Gareth Owen wrote:
>
>> tarquin <tarquin at planetunreal.com> writes:
>>
>>> Someone's just made a ton of redirects along the lines of
>>>
>>> [[06-05]] ---> [[June 5]]
>>>
>>> I think it would have been preferable to edit the text on that page: 
>>
>>
>> Amen.  If only because 06-05 is *clearly* [[May 6]] :)
>
>
> Surely not! 06-05 is part of a date in ISO long format. With links 
> it'll look like so: [[YYYY]]-[[MM-DD]]
>
Exactly!  The [[06-05]] alone was taken out of context.  The redirects 
allow the ISO long format to work, and at most there will only be 366 
such redirects.  Multiple ways of doing things can be great, if you keep 
a few things in mind.
    1. Don't expect anybody else to do things your way.
    2. It is grossly impolite to change anybody else's work in an 
article to fit your way of doing things.
    3. Make the necessary redirects or other adaptations that will allow 
your way to function in a context of Wikipedia orthodoxy.