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::I think I'd say the same to be honest. I don't really care much for the FANDOM side of things, since I didn't sign up for that. I'm not really bothered by it either. I just ignore the FANDOM side of things, in favour of the Wikia side, because as far as I'm concerned, it's still the same network that I joined back in December 2013, which I browsed since late 2008. ― <span style="font-family:'Constantia'; font-weight:bold; font-size:108%;">[[User:C.Syde65|<font color="maroon">C.Syde</font>]]</span> <span style="font-family:'Adobe Garamond Pro'; font-size:108%;">([[User talk:C.Syde65|<font color="black">talk</font>]] | [[:Special:Contributions/C.Syde65|<font color="black">contribs</font>]])</span> 12:12, September 19, 2017 (UTC)
=="Editing What Links Here is better than redirects"?==
Since 2010, admins who attempt to [[Help:Rename|move a page]] are told on the "Leave a redirect behind" option that "Editing What Links Here is better than using redirects". The system message that governs the text displayed here is located at [[MediaWiki:Move-leave-redirect]].
I want to call this principle into question. Why would leaving redirects be worse than having to go through "What Links Here" and change all of the links to point to the new title? Non-admins don't have this option, and quite a good number of [[Special:Log/move|page moves]] are done by non-admins, so a redirect winds up being left behind. In most cases, the redirect does no harm and is still being linked to in many places around the wiki, and the redirect title is not implausible to the point that it would be considered for deletion. Secondly, if other sites have pointed to the old title, moving a page and deleting the redirect will cause those third-party links to the wiki to break. Thirdly, there's no real reason to having to "fix" links to redirects if they are not broken, as [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Redirect#Do_not_"fix"_links_to_redirects_that_are_not_broken|Wikipedia:Redirect § Do not "fix" links to redirects that are not broken]] says.
I propose either changing the text at [[MediaWiki:Move-leave-redirect]] or deleting it entirely. Changing the text requires that a ticket be sent to Staff via [[Special:Contact]]. Deleting it will restore the default MediaWiki system message text (which is just "Leave a redirect behind"). I'm leaning towards just deleting the page outright, since I simply can't see why it is "better" to expend the effort to change links to the new title when that's what redirects are for. —[[User:K6ka|'''<span style="color:#0040FF">k6ka</span>''']] <span title="Canadian!" style="color:red">🍁</span> ([[User talk:K6ka|<span style="color:#0080FF">Talk</span>]] · [[Special:Contributions/K6ka|<span style="color:#0B4C5F">Contributions</span>]]) 16:38, January 24, 2019 (UTC)
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