Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-4060139-20150311233939

Sooo I've noticed this going on for a while, but a lot of useful redirects have been getting added to the candidates for deletion and/or the candidates for speedy deletion pages (and subsequently getting deleted). A prime example being Vlad, which redirects to the Vladus Lokowitchki page. One is infinitely more likely to remember the name "Vlad" than the whole name "Vladus Lokowitchki" after watching the episode (heck, even Gumball couldn't pronounce it.). So if someone gets curious and wants to look that character up on this wiki, they'd be much more likely to look up "Vlad".

Another one I just stumbled across today was "Mrs. Jotunheim". The page's name is "Mrs. Jötunheim". Notice the accent over the "o". Someone browsing the wiki would be much more likely to look up the name without the accent than with it. Who would take the time to input the character code for it?

Sooo having said that, I think a standard for redirects should be set up. I just stole this from the Runescape wiki lol. They make redirects for the following: Oh, and also, a lot of the pages on the deletion page are legit. It's just that a lot of useful pages get put up there. I sorta just want to straighten things out regarding those "useful pages". Like, Hector's Mom/Hector's Mother would probably be good redirects.
 * Common misspellings (Mrs. Jötunheim vs Mrs. Jotunheim)
 * Different forms of capitalization (not necessary on this wiki, as it is case insensitive as far as I know)
 * Common shortenings or abbreviations (TAWoG should redirect to the show page...aside from that, I don't know)
 * Alternative names or nicknames (pages like Snatcher, The Snatcher, Vlad, and Vladus might be helpful to redirect to the Vladus Lokowitchki page)

And another thing I thought about was instead of deleting minor character pages, instead replace their content with a redirect to the List of Minor Characters. But it's a bit late for that lol.

Just some things I've had on my mind for a while. Thoughts? And sorry for such a long post lol. 