Magnus wrote:
- 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
Links to redirect pages are evil, because they are not found by the "Pages that link here" function of the new software (or are they?). But the user has no easy way of knowing whether he links to a redirect page or a real page. When the user saves a page, the software already checks if each link goes to an existing or non-existing page, resulting in an underlined or ?-link, respectively, and it could just as well check if the link goes to a redirect page, and display such links in a third way, perhaps underlined in green color.
I sometimes take my favorite year-in-review and open the "Pages that link here" in another window and edit the page in the main window. This function is really useful.