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While editing and overall browsing, I have noticed that several articles link to a redirect that essentially redirects to another redirect that redirects back to the same page. What is the point of such an unnecessary run-around? If it links to the same article, why have it linked at all? [[Supreme Dalek]], [[Dalek Supreme]], and [[Black Dalek]] are notorious for this unnecessary redirection loop. I was going to unlink their respective links in that article, but I first would like to know why this was decided in the first place. If the seperate articles were deleted, then forgo the redirection loop and just unlink the unnecessary linked portions. Having redirects over redirects that circle the reader back to where they started seems rather inefficient and pointless. =/ [[User:Trak Nar|<b><span style="color: Chocolate">Trak Nar</span></b>]] <sup>[[User talk:Trak Nar|Ramble on]]</sup> 04:45, 1 October 2008 (UTC) | While editing and overall browsing, I have noticed that several articles link to a redirect that essentially redirects to another redirect that redirects back to the same page. What is the point of such an unnecessary run-around? If it links to the same article, why have it linked at all? [[Supreme Dalek]], [[Dalek Supreme]], and [[Black Dalek]] are notorious for this unnecessary redirection loop. I was going to unlink their respective links in that article, but I first would like to know why this was decided in the first place. If the seperate articles were deleted, then forgo the redirection loop and just unlink the unnecessary linked portions. Having redirects over redirects that circle the reader back to where they started seems rather inefficient and pointless. =/ [[User:Trak Nar|<b><span style="color: Chocolate">Trak Nar</span></b>]] <sup>[[User talk:Trak Nar|Ramble on]]</sup> 04:45, 1 October 2008 (UTC) | ||
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:It probably comes from people being unable to decide on a correct name, and people not fixing redirects when the page is moved. [[User:Jack's the man|Jack's]] [[User talk:Jack's the man|the]] [[Special:Contributions/Jack's the man|man]] - 10:21, 1 October 2008 (UTC) | :It probably comes from people being unable to decide on a correct name, and people not fixing redirects when the page is moved. [[User:Jack's the man|Jack's]] [[User talk:Jack's the man|the]] [[Special:Contributions/Jack's the man|man]] - 10:21, 1 October 2008 (UTC) | ||
** Looks like a project to work on some time. Well, I was looking for something to do for my first major contribution rather than the minor grammar edits and such... [[User:Trak Nar|<b><span style="color: Chocolate">Trak Nar</span></b>]] <sup>[[User talk:Trak Nar|Ramble on]]</sup> 07:43, 2 October 2008 (UTC) | ** Looks like a project to work on some time. Well, I was looking for something to do for my first major contribution rather than the minor grammar edits and such... [[User:Trak Nar|<b><span style="color: Chocolate">Trak Nar</span></b>]] <sup>[[User talk:Trak Nar|Ramble on]]</sup> 07:43, 2 October 2008 (UTC) | ||
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Not sure whether the original poster was trying to make a broader point about redirects, but the thread ''became'' about the specific case he mentioned, which is now a bit of an out of date condition. [[user:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]] got his wish that various [[Supreme Dalek]]s got their own page. In a more general sense, redirects to redirects are left around because people move a redirect and don't realise they've left behind what's a "double redirect". It's basic wikia policy — much less tardis policy — that redirects be eliminated. If a user doesn't like "the runaround", as Trak Nar put it, they only have to take the intermediary redirect locations out of the loop. | |||
For instance, if Supreme Dalek redirected to Dalek Supreme which linked to Dalek Supreme (disambiguation), just make Supreme Dalek link to Dalek Supreme (disambiguation). Sure, it's not a "major contribution', but it's an extremely useful one. | |||
I think Trak Nar makes the fundamental error of believing "redirect runaround" was policy, when in fact it was just the detritus of page moving. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} <span style="{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}">'''11:01:14 Sat '''28 May 2011 </span> | |||
