Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-1370845-20150329184612

The wiki has always deleted pages in Content namespaces (Creature, Fiction, Captain, Planet...) that lack any real content. This is just a housekeeping thing. So, if a page in one of these namespaces does not have content, it should be deleted. Making random empty Creature pages in Creature space just clogs things up and is untidy.

However, lots of people are indecisive with the names for their fiction articles, and so, they end up being moved a lot. This leads a lot of redirects behind. Many of these redirects end up redirecting to redirects, or breaking. Those of you watching the RecentChanges will notice me fixing those up a lot.

Redirects in Content namespaces shouldn't exist. They're pages in Content namespaces which lack content. And redirects exist for search bar purposes; they exist to direct someone who searches for the wrong article to the correct one. This won't happen in Content namespaces, the searches will be specific because there's a Creature: or Fiction: in front of them.

Instead, when moving an article, the links should be fixed, and no redirect should be left behind. Either Cyrannian or myself with our bot accounts are more than happy to fix these for you - hell, the Debug Squid Bot account is open to anyone who wants to use it - but no redirects should be left behind. This is why I, and some others I have spoken to, feel that we should begin a purge of redirects. It'll take us some time, but you folks won't have to worry about it unless you want to help out.

So, discuss :o 