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→Stop adding redirects: - a redirect from a gruesome term that isn't yet in widespread use is not helpful.
(→Stop adding redirects: -- please stop, since you haven't built the trust necessary for number and type of changes you have been making.) |
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Please stop adding spurious redirects. You have not demonstrated enough competence (e.g. the [[decapitation]] double redirect) and you haven't built enough trust. "Decapitation" doesn't need a redirect to [[favorite betrayal criterion]]. Moreover, when a new [[User:RobLa/Pseudoanonymity|pseudoanonymous]] editor clutters the main namespace with redirects, it makes me trust them much less. -- [[User:RobLa|RobLa]] ([[User talk:RobLa|talk]]) 20:41, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
: Hi [[User:RobLa|RobLa]]—very sorry about the double-redirect, didn't notice Favorite Betrayal was the wrong article! Does ElectoWiki not have any bots for correcting those?
: I'm not sure what's the issue with adding redirects. Intuitively I figured the more the better, since that should make articles easier to find, no? [[User:Closed Limelike Curves|Closed Limelike Curves]] ([[User talk:Closed Limelike Curves|talk]]) 00:53, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
:: Spurious redirects make this wiki much harder to maintain, since (among other things) future renames of the target article become harder to make without accidentally creating more double-redirects. We do not have a bot that deals with double-redirects; someone would need to volunteer to maintain it. It clutters up the autocomplete in the search box with terminology that doesn't need to be there. As near as I can tell, you put in an intentionally misleading citation implying that the term "decapitation" was used in the Graham-Squire/McCune paper (which it wasn't). If you're not confident that a redirect from "decapitation" to "[[favorite betrayal criterion]]" would hold on Wikipedia, please don't introduce it here. -- [[User:RobLa|RobLa]] ([[User talk:RobLa|talk]]) 17:45, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
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