A couple of days ago I removed the page [[Davide Mana]] from VfD and redirected it to [[User: Davide Mana]].
Another user wrote this on my talk page
"I don't think Davide Mana should become a redirect to the user page. It is a bad precedent to allow redirects to user pages. It makes the redirect seem to be a legitimate article to outside links and during database extracts and other forms of porting to other formats for the encyclopedia it will not take user pages (I think) and thus it goes as a broken link. Please reconsider your redirect and return the issue to VfD. - Texture 23:02, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)"
I don't think that we should worry about broken links in porting to other formats, but I'm interested in what you all think. So should redirecting non famous people to their userpages be stopped ?
KNOTT, T wrote:
I don't think that we should worry about broken links in porting to other formats, but I'm interested in what you all think. So should redirecting non famous people to their userpages be stopped ?
I would prefer that, as a technical matter, it became impossible to redirect anything in the article namespace to anything not in the article namespace. This includes redirects to user pages, redirects to Wikipedia: pages, and especially interwiki redirects. The article namespace should be self-contained and extractable, and all redirects should be essentially "see [[articlelocation]]" links.
IMO, of course.
-Mark
Delirium wrote:
KNOTT, T wrote:
I don't think that we should worry about broken links in porting to other formats, but I'm interested in what you all think. So should redirecting non famous people to their userpages be stopped ?
I would prefer that, as a technical matter, it became impossible to redirect anything in the article namespace to anything not in the article namespace. This includes redirects to user pages, redirects to Wikipedia: pages, and especially interwiki redirects. The article namespace should be self-contained and extractable, and all redirects should be essentially "see [[articlelocation]]" links.
I disagree about redirects within the same project; I have no problem with them. Redirects to a sister project are a different matter, because the page does not have a "redirected from" notice, and that makes revising the redirect more awkward when it needs to be done.
Ec
Theresa wrote:
A couple of days ago I removed the page [[Davide Mana]] from VfD and
redirected it to [[User: Davide Mana]].
Another user wrote this on my talk page
"I don't think Davide Mana should become a redirect to the user page. It
is a bad precedent to allow redirects to user pages. It makes the redirect seem to be a legitimate article to outside links and during database extracts and other forms of porting to other formats for the encyclopedia it will not take user pages (I think) and thus it goes as a broken link. Please reconsider your redirect and return the issue to VfD. - Texture 23:02, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)"
I don't think that we should worry about broken links in porting to other
formats, but I'm interested in what you all think. So should redirecting non famous people to their userpages be stopped ?
I don't see a problem with this - [[Sannse]] is a redirect to [[User:Sannse]] too. Obviously, if the name is famous or otherwise used on the 'pedia it can't be done this way, but if there is no other use for the page I see no problem. In cases where a user biography has been deleted, redirecting in this way might reduce conflict - it's a friendlier way of dealing with the article than outright deletion.
--sannse
Redirect to the User space then delete the redirect.
RickK
"KNOTT, T" tknott@qcl.org.uk wrote:
A couple of days ago I removed the page [[Davide Mana]] from VfD and redirected it to [[User: Davide Mana]].
Another user wrote this on my talk page
"I don't think Davide Mana should become a redirect to the user page. It is a bad precedent to allow redirects to user pages. It makes the redirect seem to be a legitimate article to outside links and during database extracts and other forms of porting to other formats for the encyclopedia it will not take user pages (I think) and thus it goes as a broken link. Please reconsider your redirect and return the issue to VfD. - Texture 23:02, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)"
I don't think that we should worry about broken links in porting to other formats, but I'm interested in what you all think. So should redirecting non famous people to their userpages be stopped ?
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KNOTT, T wrote:
A couple of days ago I removed the page [[Davide Mana]] from VfD and redirected it to [[User: Davide Mana]].
Another user wrote this on my talk page
"I don't think Davide Mana should become a redirect to the user page. It is a bad precedent to allow redirects to user pages. It makes the redirect seem to be a legitimate article to outside links and during database extracts and other forms of porting to other formats for the encyclopedia it will not take user pages (I think) and thus it goes as a broken link. Please reconsider your redirect and return the issue to VfD. - Texture 23:02, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)"
I don't think that we should worry about broken links in porting to other formats, but I'm interested in what you all think. So should redirecting non famous people to their userpages be stopped ?
It's yet another misuse of the VfD system. Newbies generally are not aware of the user: namespace, and redirect is the proper thing to do. Eventually the page should be deleted, but there is no rush about it. It doesn't need to appear on VfD at all.
Ec