Brion VIBBER wrote:
tarquin wrote:
As for redirects like "Zimbabwe/History", we don't want people to link to those. I am of the opinion that we should simply delete them -- the only argument against is that Google has indexed them.
Also there are links from external sites and personal bookmarks. Maybe nothing links Zimbabwe/History, but there's at least one link to Zimbabwe/Geography at this page: http://www.geometry.net/basic_z/zimbabwe_geography.php
How would it help our project if people follow links to what they are told are articles only to find "Describe the text of the new page here."?
Do not delete redirects just because you find them un-aesthetic.
That is a fair point which I'd forgotten about. But other sites do not feel compelled to maintain old links.
I have suggested before that instead of just "Describe the text of the new page here.", we have the system run a page-title search and say:
"This page does not exist in wikipedia. Pages that match your requested title include: [[History of Zimbabwe]], .... etc"
then again, we could just leave redirects, it's easier :-)