Category talk:Wikipedia redirects

Removal of this category
Can we get a bot to just go through and remove everything here? Richard001 (talk) 08:00, 28 March 2008 (UTC)


 * You mean decategorize these redirects? Yes, that would be very easy to do if there was consensus to do so. — {admin} Pathoschild 11:51:10, 28 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Judging from this category should not contain any redirects itself; there are so many of them that a category of them all would be unmanageable. However, certain kinds of redirect are categorized by type – for example, redirects from misspellings. If a particular redirect does not fit into any of these categories, there is probably no need to categorize it at all; most redirects are not categorized., it seems this would be desirable. Richard001 (talk) 00:17, 29 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Please see Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects (a proposal I brought up to guideline status). You are right in that many redirects are not categorised, but I think that all redirects should be in at least an administrative category, and some are in content categories. I recently asked how many redirects there are on Wikipedia, and the answer is 1,857,524 ! I would opposed indiscriminate decategorising of redirects - they are an important part of the encyclopedia, and we should be managing them and keeping track of them. Carcharoth (talk) 22:35, 14 April 2008 (UTC)


 * The category page says that "most redirects are not categorized", but my take is that a redirect that "does not fit into any of these categories" probably should not exist at all. GregorB (talk) 12:42, 19 July 2008 (UTC)