Talk:Sunspears

I created this redirect despite the "no plural redirect" policy because this one is somewhat special: Sunspear is a disambig page. Sunspear in singular refers to the weapon most of the time, but Sunspears in plural usually refers to the Order. -- 03:09, 20 September 2006 (CDT)


 * I disagree. The reasoning you provide is that you created a redirect for the plural because the singular was taken. But we make redirects to facilitate searches. If people will be looking up "Sunspear", putting the redirect in "Sunspears" will not help them. Especially that there will be an article in "Sunspear" making the Go button take the users there. There's no need for this redirect. --Karlos 07:18, 20 September 2006 (CDT)


 * Facilitating searches isn't the only reason for redirects. I'd say it's not even the main reason. For me, redirects are mostly there for convenient linking in articles, without excessive us of pipe code. Sunspears is so much easier than Sunspears . And Sunspears (in plural) is a common shorthandle for the Order of the Sunspears. In the Nightfall documents that ANet have published so far they use it all the time.
 * As for people looking up "Sunspear", they will be taken to the disambig page, which covers both the weapon (mostly singular) and the Order (mostly plural). So we're safe here. --[[Image:TurningL sml.gif|Tetris L]] 08:12, 20 September 2006 (CDT)


 * Hah. Redirects as editing shorthand tools. Never seen that one before. A redirect should be a common word used by players or a synonym in-game. Sunspears is used in game, but we use singular for entries. I think this will play out after release. I think we should pick one to be "Sunspear" and the other two "Sunspear (qualifier)" and then all three articles have a disambig note at the top. --Karlos 09:04, 20 September 2006 (CDT)