[WikiEN-l] redirecting to user pages

[sannse]

Theresa wrote:

> A couple of days ago I removed the page [[Davide Mana]] from VfD and
redirected it to [[User: Davide Mana]].
>
> Another user wrote this on my talk page
>
>  "I don't think Davide Mana should become a redirect to the user page. It
is a bad precedent to allow redirects to user pages. It makes the redirect
seem to be a legitimate article to outside links and during database
extracts and other forms of porting to other formats for the encyclopedia it
will not take user pages (I think) and thus it goes as a broken link. Please
reconsider your redirect and return the issue to VfD. - Texture 23:02, 6 Mar
2004 (UTC)"
>
> I don't think that we should worry about broken links in porting to other
formats, but I'm interested in what you all think. So should redirecting non
famous people to their userpages be stopped ?
>

I don't see a problem with this - [[Sannse]] is a redirect to
[[User:Sannse]] too.  Obviously, if the name is famous or otherwise used on
the 'pedia it can't be done this way, but if there is no other use for the
page I see no problem.  In cases where a user biography has been deleted,
redirecting in this way might reduce conflict - it's a friendlier way of
dealing with the article than outright deletion.

--sannse