Talk:Drowned farming

Deletion
I would be to deleting this redirect, along with Trident farming. It's definitely something people would search for and it's not hurting anything. I know the style guide doesn't permit it, but I think sometimes it's more important to just do what makes sense rather than follow every single rule out there. Also, I would probably support to rewriting that section of the style guide, or at least allow "normal" mainspace pages to redirect to tutorial subpages; I don't really think only allowing redirects to be created if they meet these very specific conditions seems right.-- Madminecrafter12 Orange Glazed Terracotta.png to meLight Blue Glazed Terracotta.png 13:51, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

As the creator of this redirect, I created it because: I don't mind this is deleted or kept, but I agree with the comment above; the guideline should probably be corrected to make this wiki more useful to readers searching for information. Amatulic (talk) 16:11, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I had seen (or thought I had seen) another similar redirect and thought I was following convention.
 * Redirects are intended for convenience; they are cheap, do no harm, and aid searching.
 * This redirect doesn't cross any name spaces. It's mainspace to mainspace. Even on the English Wikipedia where I'm an admin, mainspace redirects to mainspace subpages aren't common, but they aren't disallowed; generally they get evaluated on a case-by-case basis.


 * Yeah, you probably did see another similar redirect; plenty of redirects exist that aren't actually allowed per style guide, but only a few actually end up getting tagged for deletion. If we did delete all redirects that aren't explicitly said to be permitted per style guide, a lot of very useful redirects would probably be gone. I personally would prefer to completely rewrite the redirects section on the style guide to say something like "There are no exact rules as to what redirects are allowed to be created; common sense should be used here and can be determined on a case-to-case basis. Generally, whether the redirect clogs up other search suggestions, how useful it would be for searching, how useful it would be for linking, and whether it would cause any confusion, are all factors to consider when determining whether a redirect should be deleted or kept." At the very least, I think we should have a line saying "Mainspace pages without the tutorial prefix may redirect to tutorial pages, as long as they would likely be commonly searched or linked terms," but I would prefer the previous option.-- Madminecrafter12 Orange Glazed Terracotta.png to meLight Blue Glazed Terracotta.png 16:21, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
 * What style guide prohibits redirects like this? Minecraft Wiki:Style guide specifically says alternate or shortened names are allowed. That's pretty much what this is. Amatulic (talk) 07:45, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

I the deletion of this redirect, as well as both the Mods/ prefix and the Tutorials/ prefix, but the latter's hardly relevant here. I was going to propose getting rid of them on the portal though. --AttemptToCallNil (report bug, view backtrace) 16:36, 22 September 2018 (UTC)