On Monday 11 February 2002 21:25, Magnus Manske wrote:
Yes, but only one or two are actually used in ENglish (Wotan and Odin, I guess). The others could be mentioned within the text of the actual article, so that the search function will find them. Redirects are only good if they are used in other articles.
But that's the point: I don't know when somebody is going to start writing an article on early Burgundian mythology, but I can make sure that if he does, the particular name the Burgundians used will link to a central page called [[Odin]]. Or if someone starts writing about Dostoyevski in an article on [[Russian literature]], a little proactive redirecting avoids the situation where you have parallel [[Dostoyevsky]] and [[Dostoyevski]] pages that someone now needs to harmonise.
I do agree that it can be overdone.