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==Welcome== | ==Welcome== | ||
Hello, {{BASEPAGENAME}}, and welcome to '''Pikipedia'''! If you need ideas on how to help, please check the '''[[Pikipedia:Helping out|Helping out]]''' page. For a beginner's guide on how to edit pages, check the '''[[Help:Quick start guide|Quick start guide]]'''. Finally, if you need to talk to one of us, there's the '''[[Special:WebChat|Chatroom]]'''. Thanks for joining us, and we hope you enjoy your stay! [[User:Marty|Marty]] ([[User talk:Marty|talk]]) 11:03, 21 April 2016 (EDT) | Hello, {{BASEPAGENAME}}, and welcome to '''Pikipedia'''! If you need ideas on how to help, please check the '''[[Pikipedia:Helping out|Helping out]]''' page. For a beginner's guide on how to edit pages, check the '''[[Help:Quick start guide|Quick start guide]]'''. Finally, if you need to talk to one of us, there's the '''[[Special:WebChat|Chatroom]]'''. Thanks for joining us, and we hope you enjoy your stay! [[User:Marty|Marty]] ([[User talk:Marty|talk]]) 11:03, 21 April 2016 (EDT) | ||
==Redirect links== | |||
Hey there! Good work on cleaning up some of the dirtier links on the wiki. Although, I have something to point out. When you've got links to redirect pages in an article's body, it may be best to leave it like that (unless it's something ridiculous like a redirect to a redirect). Some years back, I too tried to do the same wherever I could. But then I read somewhere (probably a talk page on Wikipedia) about how that's not necessarily a good thing, and I changed my view ever since. | |||
Basically, the only advantage to linking directly to a redirect's final target is server convenience, but even then, the server barely cares. It's indifferent for the reader, since they reach the final destination instantly either way, but it makes things a bit worse for editors. It's easier to read the source code when you've got something like <code><nowiki>thirty [[fireflies]]</nowiki></code> compared to <code><nowiki>thirty [[Firefly|fireflies]]</nowiki></code>. Further, although most of our "subject" redirects just point to a larger "subject" article that contains a section on that minor subject, there could come a day where we want to make it a full article. For instance, if we want to make a full article out of the "Charge" mechanic in ''Pikmin 3'' instead of keeping it as a section. If everything links to <code><nowiki>[[charge]]</nowiki></code> anyway, the work is cut out for us. | |||
There's also the fact that you can do something like <code><nowiki>[[dogs]]</nowiki></code> -> <code><nowiki>[[dog]]s</nowiki></code>, which is still easy to read, and skips the redirect, but registering a new edit on the changelog of a page, and on the recent changes, just for that virtually useless edit is... well, it's a bit of a bummer. It's not '''wrong''', and I won't stop you from continuing, but I can point you to the [[Pikipedia:Helping out|Helping out]] page if you need ideas on other, more palpable tasks that the wiki needs. Same goes for removing "File:" in galleries. It makes them just a bit easier to read, but again, the overhead of registering a new edit just for that is almost not worth it. | |||
Still, let me know your thoughts on what I said. Oh, and remember that this isn't a warning or anything of the sort! — '''{''[[User:Espyo|Espyo]]''<sup>[[User talk:Espyo|T]]</sup>}''' 08:05, 4 October 2016 (EDT) | |||