Minecraft Wiki:Projects/Redirect cleanup



Having loads of useless redirects makes search suggestions useless, making it more difficult to find pages. Many of these redirects are left over from old page names which we haven't used for years (for example when we used to name everything in disambiguation format...), and others are created due to lazy linking which perhaps doesn't need to be quite so lazy.

What makes a useful redirect?

 * Primarily, anything someone would search for when trying to find an item, or game feature:
 * Exact names used in the game
 * Names of certain specific features (e.g.: "Armorer")
 * Very common alternate names (e.g.: Loads of people call "stone" "smooth stone", despite that never being an official name. "AI" is an alternate name for "Mob")
 * English variant spelling (e.g.: "Armour")
 * Common link targets, in order to avoid piped links to reduce page clutter. (MCW:STYLE)
 * TODO: Are plurals useful?
 * Lowercase names
 * Historical names