GUYTU6J wrote: ↑June 5th, 2022, 9:52 pm
Now this is in danger of setting off an explosion of redirects: if there is "glider eater" as a whole, would a "LWSS eater" be needed? How about "lightweight spaceship eater"? "MWSS eater", "HWSS eater", "Loafer eater", or even "2-engine Cordership eater'? So I have to say no to this case.
How likely it is that someone later will come later after me and write a good article "Glider eater"?
How likely it is that someone later will come later after me and write a good article "Loafer eater"?
How likely it is that someone later will come later after me and write a good article "Sir Robin eater"?
I believe asking yourself these questions and answering them may help to make decisions of this kind in each specific case.
GUYTU6J wrote: ↑June 5th, 2022, 9:52 pm
My intention is to reduce the number of redirect pages, which take up space on the server. But I have decided to tolerate that move.
But then...
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Now this is in danger of setting off an explosion of redirects: if there is "glider eater" as a whole, would a "LWSS eater" be needed? How about "lightweight spaceship eater"? "MWSS eater", "HWSS eater", "Loafer eater", or even "2-engine Cordership eater'? So I have to say no to this case.
What is bad about implying more about the structure of the rest of LifeWiki? Isn't it an editor's duty to check out relevant concepts and carefully avoid unnecessary red links?
1) Edit history also takes up space, including articles and talk pages. So by that logic, after all it might be reasonable to move discussion of LifeWiki issues to the forum to avoid cluttering the wiki history (?)
2) It is much easier to check out relevant concepts when there are tools to do that. One such tool is "What links here".
3) The less implications between different pages, the easier it is to maintain the wiki.
PS: And please remember people here are volunteers. They have different backgrounds, different knowledge, there are some very smart and skillful people here - but they are volunteers. So please no talk about "duty". Probably you can expect people to
read your questions but you cannot demand answers from them.
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Unlikely events happen.
My silence does not imply agreement, nor indifference. If I disagreed with something in the past, then please do not construe my silence as something that could change that.