Talk:Index of Japan-related articles

Central talk page for all the "subpages"
I suggest this talk page be disignated the talk page for all of the "subarticles" to keep discussion in one place. Cheers &middot; &middot; &middot; Peter Southwood (talk): 13:59, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

If there is no logic or policy-based objection or actionable counterproposal within a week, or before I get round to checking this notification again, I will redirect the talk pages accordingly. Cheers, &middot; &middot; &middot; Peter Southwood (talk): 07:32, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

Scope, and inclusion of redirects in the index.
Cheers, &middot; &middot; &middot; Peter Southwood (talk): 14:02, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
 * How is the scope limited/defined?
 * What are the inclusion conditions for redirects?

I suggest that "redirects with possibilities", which represent topics which could reasonably be separate Wikipedia pages, are suitable for inclusion, even if there are currently insufficient reliable sources or notability to start such articles, provided that the redirects link to a section which clearly and recognisably provides relevant information on the subtopic. Redirects which are minor alternative spellings might well be out of scope, Redirects which are commonly used alternative terms will usually be in scope. Cheers, &middot; &middot; &middot; Peter Southwood (talk): 07:43, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

Annotations
The bare links can be very uninformative. MoS recommends annoting links to help inform the reader what the target page is about, which should result in a higher percentage of useful first tries. The template annotated link uses the short desctiption of the linked page as an annotation. They are not always great, but usually much better than nothing. When they are bad it is usually an indication that the short description should be changed. Cheers, &middot; &middot; &middot; Peter Southwood (talk): 14:09, 16 June 2024 (UTC)