Minecraft Wiki talk:Projects/Redirect cleanup

Organizing the redirects once we decide what to do about them
Can we apply categories to redirects? What if we had a few categories:
 * Category:English variant redirects,
 * Category:Lowercase redirects,
 * Category:Plural redirects,
 * Category:Feature redirects,
 * Category:Historical name redirects,
 * Category:Common name redirects,
 * and so on. Whatever categories we ultimately decide

It may facilitate the project -- though I'm also thinking of later benefits, such as:
 * There could be a maintenance page dedicated to uncategorized redirects (to decide whether they're good or not),
 * Several of those redirects, like 'english variant', 'historical name' or 'common name' redirects, should (probably?) not be used in wikilinks; wikilinks should use the in-game name. So if we had those in a category, or categories, those could be checked from time to time, in bulk, to see that they're not used in pages.  They would just be terms for the search bar.

Just thoughts. – Sealbudsman talk/contr 16:42, 9 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Excellent idea, that will help to keep unnecessary redirects out after the project is done. –Majr ᐸ Talk Contribs 23:15, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

Plural redirects
The style guide currently advises using link suffixes if possible to avoid needing extra redirects, but many plural redirects still exist.
 * Case for
 * Allows slightly more readable source text:  is easier to read than
 * Allows searching for plural terms (does anyone actually do this?)


 * Case against
 * Isn't necessary for most links due to link suffixes
 * Is useless in search suggestions, making it more difficult to find pages

Feel free to add your own points for or against plural redirects.

I see 3 choices:
 * 1) Allow plural redirects
 * 2) Only allow plural redirects for plurals which aren't a suffix (e.g: "Wolves", "Blocks of Coal")
 * 3) Don't allow plural redirects


 * I vote for option 2. –Majr ᐸ Talk Contribs 23:37, 9 August 2016 (UTC)


 * I'm also in favor of #2, I feel it's in keeping with style guide so far, and I'm not sure people searching for a plural wouldn't just see the singular pop up, as they type. – Sealbudsman talk/contr 00:43, 10 August 2016 (UTC)


 * I would also agree with #2, though I can see potential for confusion among new editors when making plural links. Basically, a lot of new users don't know about the plural link trick, so will likely try the formerly redirected version and see it as a redlink to create (which at best recreates a deleted redirect and at worst creates a duplicate article). – KnightMiner  · (t) 03:33, 10 August 2016 (UTC)


 * I also like #2; however, less experienced wiki editors may not know that link suffixes work. They're likely to either attempt to link to the missing plural redirect, or use a piped link (e.g., ). The former isn't hard to fix, and the latter isn't technically wrong – a bot can check for those periodically. I'm fine with getting rid of unneeded redirects, but be aware that this does make the wiki a little less friendly for new and casual editors. -- Orthotopetalk 03:39, 10 August 2016 (UTC)