Talk:Ahmed el Inglizi

Redirects, please

Hallo, people who have this article watchlisted ... and there are certainly lots of you who have edited it since 2010.

Please, remember that an alternative name bolded in the lead is supposed to be the target of a redirect (or perhaps a hatnote or dab page entry): it shows the reader why they have landed on this page. That's the purpose of the formatting. So please remember to create that redirect. I've just created Ahmed El Alj and Ahmed Laalaj, both seven years late - they were in the article on 15 August 2010.

Redirects are important:

1. They help the reader find the article they want
2. They make it less likely that a future enthusiastic but misguided editor will create a second article on the same topic at a different title
3. Satisfyingly-often they resolve a redlink which may have been around for years in another article: this happens particularly often when "Jane Bloggs" gets a redirect from her Sunday name "Jane Anastasia Bloggs" by which she was listed in some article about winners of an annual award, elections to a legislature, or participants in a sports event.

So please, make the redirects ... and then check that there aren't any wrong incoming links to them which need disambiguation.

Thanks.

Me, obsessive about redirects ... no way. Well, umm, perhaps. Goes with the territory as a retired librarian - trying to help readers actually find the info that we've got stored away in this amazing encyclopedia. Happy Editing! PamD 09:38, 25 January 2018 (UTC)