Talk:Target-2

Chastened; utility
I was a bit chastened, having just created this redirect page a while back, to find exactly "0" hits on the page-name ... in the last 90 days.

One note seems worth making: Had I created this link -- http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Target-2 -- manually before creating the redirect, I could have learned about the "0" before creating the redirect. I don't know if finding the "0" would have dissuaded me from creating the page but it would have given me a little pause.

I thought about the problem in advance but didn't think about my "manual link" solution above until after the page-creation. I've just tested my "solution" with http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Target%202. (For non-existent page "Target 2".) Interestingly, three results (more than "0") in the last 90 days; three different days. Does that mean "Create a Target 2 redirect? More needed than the one I just created?" Well, in the "pause" moment (afforded by the "solution"), it's a pretty easy "No". For now. Let the dust settle. See if I, or anyone else, has any thought on the matter. Maybe even reach out to DMarsh (whose mention, again, today of the payment system using the hyphenated alternate of the official (as I understand it to be) all-caps no-space-or-hyphen ... name ... led me to act maybe precipitously ... to create the redirect. See if he has a reason for not using the official name. (Dislike of all capital[ letter]s? Dislike of ... Brussels and Frankfurt? ...)

I will say also I've taken some encouragement -- in past page-creations, redirects and others -- from finding "hits" that happened before creation, as it were. Showed I wasn't alone in a desert. Seemed worth noting that, too, here.

I've been distracted from this post; don't know if I hit all the points I intended; but will post it as a starting point. If anyone ..., please do. Cheers. Swliv (talk) 13:57, 23 April 2012 (UTC)