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| ==Redirect Linking Discouragement=== | | ==Redirect Linking Discouragement=== |
| Slightly hypocritical. Jovester ππ’ππ 14:41, 14 April 2014 (EDT) | | Slightly hypocritical. Jovester ππ’ππ 14:41, 14 April 2014 (EDT) |
| :I don't think it is a good idea to discourage linking to redirects ''in all circumstances''. Sometimes linking to redirects is helpful. I've had two experiences in which this helped.
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| :The first one is around July 2015, where PMTTYD badges like Super Appeal P got their own pages. Before that, the only place to get information about each badge was the "Badge" article, so a page like "Super Appeal P" was a redirect to "Badge#Super_Appeal_P". However, I didn't think other references to the Super Appeal P badge should link there too, so I still said, for example, <code><nowiki>[[Super Appeal P]]</nowiki></code>. Later when pages like "Super Appeal P" got turned into real articles, none of my old tables needed to update.
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| :The second one is when [http://www.mariowiki.com/MarioWiki:Proposals/Archive/44#Split_Badge_and_Clothing_by_game this proposal] was carried out, which caused the destination of a redirect like "Big-POW Badge" from, say, "Badge#Big-POW Badge" to "List of badges in Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time#Big-POW Badge". In this case, if other pages said <code><nowiki>[[Big-POW Badge]]</nowiki></code> instead of <code><nowiki>[[Badge#Big-POW Badge|Big-POW Badge]]</nowiki></code>, there's no need for them to update too. [[User:A gossip-loving Toad|A gossip-loving Toad]] ([[User talk:A gossip-loving Toad|talk]]) 07:04, 4 February 2016 (EST)
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| == Bad Redirects ==
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| I think it should be added that when a redirect is made, all of the words should either have the first letters capitalized or lowercase (not including the first word). I say this, because I have noticed that redirects like "Unagi the Eel" and "Mario & luigi: Super star saga" only work if you type in the exact capitalizations, while you don't have to be exact for "Unagi the eel" and "Mario & Luigi: Super Star Saga". --{{User:TheFlameChomp/sig}} 21:32, 22 April 2017 (EDT)
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| == Smart Quotes in redirects ==
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| My phone likes to use smart quotes.Β I created [[Peachβs Castle]] because I didnβt know [[Peach's Castle]] existed.Β The thing is, I canβt use normal quotes on my phone without a third-party keyboard.Β Are smart quote redirects allowed, and if so, shouldnβt we say so on this page? -{{User:YoshiFlutterJump/sig}} 12:30, 12 January 2018 (EST)
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| :It can be helpful for devices that use them by default, so sure.
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| :By the way, if the phone you're using is an iPhone, you can use normal quotes by holding the quote key and selecting it, or you can turn smart quotes off altogether by going to Settings > General > Keyboard > Smart Punctuation (toggle on/off). {{User:Mario jc/sig}} 21:53, 12 January 2018 (EST)
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| ::Oh, I didnβt know that.Β Iβm using an iPod Touch, by the way, but I use the desktop version of the wiki on it.Β Thanks! -{{User:YoshiFlutterJump/sig}} 23:02, 12 January 2018 (EST)
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| == Examples ==
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| Are examples like [[Snake (species)]] allowed? --{{User:FanOfYoshi/sig}} 06:37, September 23, 2019 (EDT)
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| :There was a Talk Page Proposal (that you VOTED on, let me remind you) to move that page over to [[Snake (Yoshi's Story)]]. The redirect was then deleted in order to complete the move, as is standard procedure. There would be absolutely no need for it otherwise, and I've fixed all the page links that pointed to it to link to the new page name instead, which is why I'm trying to figure out why you went and recreated it for no reason. --{{User:Lord Grammaticus/sig}} 06:50, September 23, 2019 (EDT)
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| ::Ah, my bad, it was because of the balloon redirect, which was moved a second time, regarding the Yoshi's Island thing. --{{User:FanOfYoshi/sig}} 06:51, September 23, 2019 (EDT)
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