On Monday 11 February 2002 14:24, Magnus Manske wrote:
I noticed some things on wikipedia that IMHO should be avoided:
- Creating half a dozen redirects to a single topic. A recent example of
this might be the "ArXiv.org e-print archive", for which "Xxx.lanl.gov", "Www.arXiv.org", "ArXiv.org", and "ArXiv" redirects were created. There's no need to do this if the redirected titles aren't very common and mentioned in the article text anyway. The search function will find them without the redirect, and noone will go through the "All Pages" list if there's a search function.
I agree in principle, though there may be individual exceptions. Do you know how many ways "Dostoyevsky" has been (mis)spelled in English over the last century or so? <g>
Lately I've made redirects just to give 0-byte stubs something to do. A deletion-mechanism as proposed in another post today should clear this up