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
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.
  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b c Redirects with old history only.
  3. ^ 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?)
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ User talk → User talk: Subpages and alternate accounts/renamed users only.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Wikipedia → Wikipedia talk: Rarely needed, but there is no reason to forbid it.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ Wikipedia → Category: WP:CAT:CSD exists. Should be avoided.
  10. ^ Wikipedia talk → Article: Articles for Creation drafts only.
  11. ^ a b File → File, File talk → File talk: Only for files that have been moved. Even then, most orphaned file redirects can be deleted.
  12. ^ Category → Category: Regular redirects are not used in category space; the template {{category redirect}} is used.
  13. ^ Portal → Article: Redirects to the Main Page only.
  14. ^ Portal talk → Article talk: Redirects to Talk:Main Page only.
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