We'd be much better off if we add the needed functionality on the serverside, I believe.

Perhaps, but I believe in the motto "if you want something done, do it yourself." Who's going to write this server-side code -- you're obviously not interested.

If you could describe exactly what the problem is that you wrote the code to solve, that would be very helpful.

I'm not saying "don't ever run this"; I'm saying that we should think about the consequences of this.

I really think we should err on the side of not worrying so much about "fixing" links, if the redirects go to the right place. Redirects don't affect the functionality for the user, and because of that, there should be a degree of intransigence about adding complexity/running bots to fix a problem that isn't much of a problem.

I think you basically understand why I wrote it - to fix links after a page move. There's a few hundred national parks articles that have been created with a bot/template -- they form the bulk of the work. I understand your point of view -- no, it doesn't really matter when there are working redirects. I'm just a perfectionist, that's all.

Please understand that this bot will be make much less impact on RC than if I did it by hand. Like I said, I did about 100 of them manually. I was able to get them out quite quickly, doing them in batches of 15 or so I absolutely swamped RC for about 20 minutes. No-one complained about that.

Please send me the code.

Done, and I sent a copy to Lee as well.

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