[WikiEN-l] redirecting to user pages

[Ray Saintonge]

Delirium wrote:

> KNOTT, T wrote:
>
>> 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 would prefer that, as a technical matter, it became impossible to 
> redirect anything in the article namespace to anything not in the 
> article namespace.  This includes redirects to user pages, redirects 
> to Wikipedia: pages, and especially interwiki redirects.  The article 
> namespace should be self-contained and extractable, and all redirects 
> should be essentially "see [[articlelocation]]" links.

I disagree about redirects within the same project; I have no problem 
with them.  Redirects to a sister project are a different matter, 
because the page does not have a "redirected from" notice, and that 
makes revising the redirect more awkward when it needs to be done.

Ec