GuildWiki talk:Redirect

Vote

 * Increase redirect usage
 * (your vote here)
 * No change to redirect usage
 * &mdash; Skuld
 * --Rainith 15:24, 19 June 2006 (CDT)
 * Greven 15:35, 19 June 2006 (CDT)
 * (your vote here)
 * Abstain
 * (your vote here)

Discussion
I would like to (re?)open discussion on where redirects should be used on the site. In particular, I am for significantly increasing the usage of redirects to cover the following:
 * Synonyms (Hall of heroes -> The Hall of Heroes)
 * Plurals (Weapons -> Weapon)
 * Mixed-capitalization workaround (Amulet of the mists -> Amulet of the Mists)
 * Note: The MediaWiki behavior for case-sensitivty makes it so titles with mixed caps are case-sensitive when using the "Go" box. Having one (1) of the above type of redirect, from the all-lowercase version, works around that limitation. It is not'' necessary to construct every possible capitalization variant. Nor do titles without mixed caps need a redirect of this type.

My arguments for this change are:
 * Redirects help users get to their destinations faster
 * Redirects reduce server load by lowering the number of search queries
 * Redirects themselves take essentially zero server resources, in space or time
 * Redirects are "self-justifying" -- the only time a user will see a redirect is if they type that form of the term. Thus, a redirect is only seen by those users for which it is useful, and harmless to everyone else.

For reference; Wikipedia uses a very wide variety of redirects, for mainly the above reasons.

-- 66.92.33.187 15:18, 19 June 2006 (CDT)