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I see that [[User:Robini|Robini]] found a few pages that were all caps versions of titles that had correct pages already made. In my opinion, rather than offering a redirect (as [[User:Kay T | Kay T]] did) deleting the articles outright. If there are no pages referring to them (and there shouldn't be) it become an "orphaned" page and leaving the redirect allows people to think that style is acceptable rather than trying to find the correctly formatted page. --[[User:DawnBurn|DawnBurn]] 16:17, 14 September 2007 (PDT) | I see that [[User:Robini|Robini]] found a few pages that were all caps versions of titles that had correct pages already made. In my opinion, rather than offering a redirect (as [[User:Kay T | Kay T]] did) deleting the articles outright. If there are no pages referring to them (and there shouldn't be) it become an "orphaned" page and leaving the redirect allows people to think that style is acceptable rather than trying to find the correctly formatted page. --[[User:DawnBurn|DawnBurn]] 16:17, 14 September 2007 (PDT) | ||
:I did misspeak - it does appear that redirects *don't* stay on the "ophaned pages" page - unless you break the redirect by also categorizing, as I did. But I still agree with [[User:DawnBurn|DawnBurn]]. I can probably live with a to/To type typo (heck, I've created enough of them myself), but at least in terms of the all-caps, I think that if we find a page that *doesn't* comply with the style manual - and we bother to clean up the whatlinkshere so as to orphan it - we might as well delete it. Othewise, it'll encourage people who are a little overattached to their caps button link to it again. And I *really* don't like to see those screaming at me. --[[User:Robini|Robini]] 16:41, 14 September 2007 (PDT) | :I did misspeak - it does appear that redirects *don't* stay on the "ophaned pages" page - unless you break the redirect by also categorizing, as I did. But I still agree with [[User:DawnBurn|DawnBurn]]. I can probably live with a to/To type typo (heck, I've created enough of them myself), but at least in terms of the all-caps, I think that if we find a page that *doesn't* comply with the style manual - and we bother to clean up the whatlinkshere so as to orphan it - we might as well delete it. Othewise, it'll encourage people who are a little overattached to their caps button link to it again. And I *really* don't like to see those screaming at me. --[[User:Robini|Robini]] 16:41, 14 September 2007 (PDT) | ||
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| + | ::Well, when you '''move''' an all caps title page to the correct capitalization it automatically makes a redirect. That is the natural way wiki works, and it does not seem to be any great harm. As Robini says, the redirect does not remain in the orphaned pages, but if you have gone to the trouble of fixing all of the links to the page there probably is nothing wrong with deleting it. Let's see if [[User:Romancewiki]] has a different opinion. (I am so excited that people are actually reading these new Help pages!!! what a dork I am). --[[User:Kay T|Kay T]] 10:45, 15 September 2007 (PDT) | ||
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All Caps Titles
I see that Robini found a few pages that were all caps versions of titles that had correct pages already made. In my opinion, rather than offering a redirect (as Kay T did) deleting the articles outright. If there are no pages referring to them (and there shouldn't be) it become an "orphaned" page and leaving the redirect allows people to think that style is acceptable rather than trying to find the correctly formatted page. --DawnBurn 16:17, 14 September 2007 (PDT)
- I did misspeak - it does appear that redirects *don't* stay on the "ophaned pages" page - unless you break the redirect by also categorizing, as I did. But I still agree with DawnBurn. I can probably live with a to/To type typo (heck, I've created enough of them myself), but at least in terms of the all-caps, I think that if we find a page that *doesn't* comply with the style manual - and we bother to clean up the whatlinkshere so as to orphan it - we might as well delete it. Othewise, it'll encourage people who are a little overattached to their caps button link to it again. And I *really* don't like to see those screaming at me. --Robini 16:41, 14 September 2007 (PDT)
- Well, when you move an all caps title page to the correct capitalization it automatically makes a redirect. That is the natural way wiki works, and it does not seem to be any great harm. As Robini says, the redirect does not remain in the orphaned pages, but if you have gone to the trouble of fixing all of the links to the page there probably is nothing wrong with deleting it. Let's see if User:Romancewiki has a different opinion. (I am so excited that people are actually reading these new Help pages!!! what a dork I am). --Kay T 10:45, 15 September 2007 (PDT)
