LCE1506

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Thanks for the welcome. Like you, I am a sysop, but on another (non-MWF) wiki. On Wp, I just browse a lot, and try to "pay the rent" by fixing little things.

Thank you as well for the "delete redirect" posting; it stirred up some useful info. But fair warning :-) I disagree with a couple of your ideas. I will post my (hopefully cogent) demurrals on Talk:Jack_Thompson_(activist). --LCE(LCE talk contribs) 09:25, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Kalevala

Hey. Thanks for those little error corrections that sometimes just get missed when you're working on a large article. Take it easy and keep up the good work.--Lakkasuo (talk) 22:45, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Redirects

Hi, just wanted to say that edit like this aren't needed (and are actually discouraged). Further information is at this page. Thanks! —fetch·comms 04:10, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the pointer to the policy. I'd seen the page; the section on deleting redirects quite convinced me not to try that. However, the section you pointed out is somewhat overreaching, perhaps due to misinterpretation.

Let me draw the distinction between "technical" redirects ([Border States] → [Border states]) and "substantive" redirects ([Jack Thompson (lawyer)] → [Jack Thompson (activist)]), which that section does not. The section also ignores appearances, both visual and institutional. I suggest that this is the typical user reaction to seeing a technical redirect: "Oh, now that's ugly. And can't these clowns keep their names straight?" We may be a playpen, but we don't have to look like a playpen.

Further, the complaint that "excessive hidden text makes the source hard to read" is nugatory. Seeing "(American Civil War)" may be very helpful to non-U.S. editors, who may have an entirely different referent in mind for "(Civil War)". (Considering contemporary politics, imagine all the double redirects, if we have to start redirecting to "American Civil War I" and "American Civil War II". But of course, "That can't happen here.") The source view has considerable instructional value ("Oh, so that's how you do this . . . ") and needs to show how to do it right.

I don't intend to make a crusade of this, but I do contend that my edits in question have improved Wp, and the blanket discouragement in the policy is wrong. --LCE(talk contribs) 09:11, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

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