Talk:Water planet

Bypassing redirects

(Moved this discussion from User talk:Viriditas and User talk:Petri Krohn -- Petri Krohn 08:50, 29 April 2006 (UTC))[reply]

I linked about 30 instances of Habitable planet in articles. I see you have bypasse these Planetary habitability using "popups". I do not know if the change adds any value. In some cases the intended meaning might be somewhat different.

I also created a redirect from Water planet and made another 25 links. I hope you do not intend to bypass these as well. -- Petri Krohn 13:09, 27 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like consensus recently emerged in January not to do this. I apologize, as I wasn't aware of this. —Viriditas | Talk 04:00, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Consensus? Where? It was my understanding that redirects are to be avoided when linking to a page. Powers 23:28, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It is certainly a topic worthy of discussion, as the help and style guides appear to contradict one another at first glance. For example, both Help:Link and Help:Redirect discuss "clean-up work such as bypassing redirects" (apparently added by User:Patrick on 14:00, 29 June 2005, see Help_talk:Link), but the consensus of Wikipedia:Redirect and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (links) appears to be, "don't fix links to redirects that aren't broken", for a number of good reasons, specifically server load and determining whether redirected links warrant more detailed articles. Due to this confusion, we should continue discussing this topic. —Viriditas | Talk 07:20, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]