Bleach Wiki talk:Redirect Policy

Obsolete - Merge in to Manual of Style
I've been meaning to do this for a while but things keep getting in the way. It came back to my mind while reading over some stuff on the canon debate today (I've only scratched the surface of that apparent raid and I am loathe to start a policy discussion while there are such things going on, but I'll only forget again if I don't bring it up now).

Anyway, this redirect policy - it might strike many wiki editors as rather odd and pointless that we even have an entire policy page for redirects. In fact, it was created in response to a solitary and prolific editor here who went rather overboard with the redirects. It was agreed among the admins that it was a problem and this policy was written by Twocents to reign in the user in question and stop anyone else from doing the same. It served its purpose very well, and now that Bleach is finished and the user in question is long gone, it is not really relevant anymore. As everyone is aware, we have a lot of policy pages and I have always felt that there are too many of them (even if I wrote some of them and was a factor/driver in creating some of them). It is sort of like that canon thread - there's just too much stuff to wade through after the fact, most people wouldn't bother. I think it would be positive to trim the fat, so to speak, albeit only where it is warranted and I feel this is a good place to start.

I am proposing that a short section on redirects be added to the Manual of Style (see below) and that this policy page be redirected to the MoS instead. Any and all feedback is invited. 19:46, May 18, 2019 (UTC)


 * A redirect is a code that forwards a specific searched term or phrase to the official page. Eg, searching for Ichigo would lead you directly to the Ichigo Kurosaki article. When used correctly, they are useful additions to the wiki. But not everything warrants adding a redirect. For example a chapter title in kanji redirecting to the chapter's article is unhelpful as it is really unlikely anyone will hunt down the kanji for the chapter's title in order to search for the chapter. If the redirect is not likely to be used or if it is not clear that the redirect will forward people to the article they intended to find, do not add it!


 * Being fully honest I didn't know we had a redirect policy until just now, so color me surprised. But yeah, this sounds good to me.--Xilinoc (talk) 03:18, May 19, 2019 (UTC)