User:Cremastra/redirects
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My views on deleting redirects, in no particular order:
- Deletion is preferable to a bad retarget.
- A demonstrably useful redirect should be kept.
- “No mention at target” isn't necessarily a good deletion rationale.
- Vague redirects which could refer to multiple targets should be deleted, or disambiguated if there are more than two reasonable targets.
- Interwiki redirects, if they are functioning, should be kept, because they have the potential to serve the reader.
- Misspellings should be kept; it is harmless to save typo-making readers a few clicks.
- A target that does not tell the reader much more than the title of the redirect does is not a good target. Similarly:
- Just because a page mentions the title of a redirect doesn’t mean it’s a good target.
- Misleading redirects should be deleted.
- The unlikely-search-term-ness of redirects exists on a spectrum, not as a binary good/bad. Very unlikely search terms should be deleted through WP:RPURPOSE, likely search terms should be kept, and borderline cases should be kept too, as potentially helpful.
- Don’t worry about performance, but maybe worry about cluttering search results.
- Give the reader what they want, not what you want.