Thread:Shabook/@comment-1983269-20140223021200/@comment-112155-20140302102939

Sorry for reviving this old thread, but after Uskok encouraged me to write a formal policy about Naming Conventions, and the subsequent cleaning of the wiki I've been doing in the past few days, I'm even more sure that there are many redirects that are not needed.

For instance, many redirect were typos, like Captain America: The Winter Soilder, Ari Arad or Ellen Brandy; and the only purpose of having these pages as redirects is not to notice that a typo has been made. If you write one of these names and gives a red link, then the editor will check to know why it's a red link when the page already exists. He'll notice the typo and fix it. But if the typo links to a redirect, it will appear as a blue link ant the mistake will go unnoticed.

Another thing I've realized when I was consulting other wikis is that the titles aren't usually a part of the articles name, as they are just that, a title and not a name (it even was a joke in The Avengers about Coulson's first name), so for the same reason as above, having only some of them as redirects could lead to the same result as above, mistakes. if it is uniform, and no character has his title on the name page (as this is easier than having every character had a redirect with his title, or having many pages for characters with multiple titles like Fury or Hill) will give the wiki a cleaner and more uniform look.

And finally, the omitting of The in the name pages. It's a language issue, obviously, when a character has a codename, it's usually refered to as The "codename", but that's just because he is a particular and specific individual (eg. The Collector is specifically Taneleer Tivan, not just a random collector), but that doesn't make The a part of the codename, and should therefore be not part of the name page, but of course the article should begin with "The Collector is...".

As was the case with the other examples, having some of the articles beginning with The and some not leads to many unnoticed mistakes.

Obviously, there are many redirects that are useful, necessaries and "untouchables", like redirects to the films using numbers, or to the codenamed characters using their real names; but many of the redirects I've deleted should be circumvented just using the search engine, that even although does not present the exact match for the words typed, it usually refers to the article that was looked for.

I hope to have explained my reasons for doing this, as the only thing I want is to keep improving this wiki, maybe one of these days even as an administrator.

Thank you very much!