User:This, that and the other/redirects
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Some redirects are useful. Others are not, and can in many cases be speedily deleted under R2 or sometimes G6.
Note: this is not a policy. It's my opinion only.
To | Article | User | Wikipedia | File | Help | Template | Category | Portal | Book | ||||||||||
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From | main | talk | main | talk | main | talk | main | talk | main | talk | main | talk | main | talk | main | talk | main | talk | |
Article | main | Yes | ? | No | No | Some[1] | Some[2] | No | No | Some | No | No[3] | No | Yes | No | ? | No | ? | No |
talk | Some | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
User | main | Yes[4] | Yes[4] | Yes | Yes | Yes[4] | Yes[4] | Yes[4] | Yes[4] | Yes[4] | Yes[4] | Yes[4] | Yes[4] | Yes[4] | Yes[4] | Yes[4] | Yes[4] | Yes[4] | Yes [4] |
talk | Yes[4] | Yes[4] | Yes[4] | Some[5] | Yes[4] | Yes[4] | Yes[4] | Yes[4] | Yes[4] | Yes[4] | Yes[4] | Yes[4] | Yes[4] | Yes[4] | Yes[4] | Yes[4] | Yes[4] | Yes [4] | |
Wikipedia | main | ? | No | Yes[6] | No | Yes | Some[7] | No | No | Yes | No | Some[2] | Some[8] | Some[9] | No | ? | No | No | No |
talk | Yes[10] | No | No | Yes[6] | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | Some[2] | No | No | No | ? | No | No | |
File | main | No | No | No | No | No | No | Some[11] | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
talk | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Some[11] | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
Help | main | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
talk | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
Template | main | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
talk | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
Category | main | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes[12] | No | No | No | No | No |
talk | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
Portal | main | Some[13] | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
talk | No | Some[14] | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | |
Book | main | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No |
talk | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
- Redirects in the Education Program namespace are not technically possible.
- There should be no redirects at all in the Module namespace. I also cannot see why there should be any redirects in the TimedText namespace.
- The talk spaces of the aforementioned three namespaces should be treated like Book talk.
- ^ Article → Wikipedia: Specific CNRs for WP-specific terms (e.g. create an article, articles for deletion) and old history (e.g. rules to consider) only.
- ^ a b c Redirects with old history only.
- ^ Article → Template: This is allowed by R2, but I can think of no good reason to allow it (except maybe when old history is present? Is it ever?)
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag Subpages only.
- ^ User talk → User talk: Subpages and alternate accounts/renamed users only.
- ^ a b Wikipedia → User, Wikipedia talk → User talk: Shortcuts (e.g. WP:FTCG) and page moves (of essays, etc.) only. Should redirect to user subpages only.
- ^ Wikipedia → Wikipedia talk: Rarely needed, but there is no reason to forbid it.
- ^ Wikipedia → Template talk: Rarely needed, except perhaps for redirects to Template talk:Did you know, such as WP:DYKT. Should be avoided in other cases.
- ^ Wikipedia → Category: WP:CAT:CSD exists. Should be avoided.
- ^ Wikipedia talk → Article: Articles for Creation drafts only.
- ^ a b File → File, File talk → File talk: Only for files that have been moved. Even then, most orphaned file redirects can be deleted.
- ^ Category → Category: Regular redirects are not used in category space; the template {{category redirect}} is used.
- ^ Portal → Article: Redirects to the Main Page only.
- ^ Portal talk → Article talk: Redirects to Talk:Main Page only.