Talk:Java Edition Beta 1.8 Pre-release

Create the redirect
I'm sorry, but I just went ahead and created the redirect. I discussed beforehand all of the other times, but this time I really think it needed to be speedy created, and I really don't exactly want to have to discuss every single time makes a move without leaving a redirect, when the redirect is obviously helpful and necessary. There are a ton of pages that link to it, it's been on that title for years, and it's an extremely likely search term. Not having the redirect is kind of breaking the wiki, considering that I'm sure tons of the readers are going to be searching for that title, so many links are broken, and come on, is it really worth it just to get rid of one redirect? What exactly is the problem with keeping it?-- Madminecrafter12 Orange Glazed Terracotta.png to meLight Blue Glazed Terracotta.png 13:16, 9 May 2018 (UTC)


 * (I have some more information here) Also, remember that we need to think from the reader's point of view. From an editor's point of view, it may be "An unnecessary non-existent version redirect." However, from a reader's point of view, if we don't have the redirect, it may be, "Searched for a term that's been this way for years, then there's this weird red box that the page is deleted and I'm taken to some other page?" Readers really don't think as much as editors do (I certainly didn't when I was a reader), and for them, it's very likely that the more redirects there are, the better.-- Madminecrafter12 Orange Glazed Terracotta.png to meLight Blue Glazed Terracotta.png 13:23, 9 May 2018 (UTC)


 * The thing is, this was never the official name of the version, so keeping this redirect is technically spreading false information. Also, none of the pages that linked to it were of any encyclopedic value, since they're either user pages either belonging to users who have never edited the wiki in years or proof-of-concept pages, or pages for highly inactive-looking translation projects. Is there truly any benefit in keeping a redirect linked to exclusively by pages harbouring extremely outdated information? - MinecraftPhotos4U (talk) 13:29, 9 May 2018 (UTC)


 * I don't really see how keeping the redirect is spreading false information. It's simply creating a redirect of a page that's been that way for a long time, so that when readers search for the term they may know it as, they will be taken to the correct page. Creating the redirect does not mean that we're explicitly stating that the correct term is in fact Beta 1.8-pre1, and therefore is not spreading false information.-- Madminecrafter12 Orange Glazed Terracotta.png to meLight Blue Glazed Terracotta.png 15:04, 9 May 2018 (UTC)