Talk:USS Manitou (1863)

Not a True Redirect
The purpose of this article is to list this ship, under this name, under the "Category:Union Navy" ships and not under any other categorial classification such as "Category:United States Navy steamships".

The reason for this, which seems to me to be the reason for having categories in the first place, is that researchers, such as me or others, can easily find this ship listed as a Union Navy ship by simply looking at the "Union Navy" category for it.

To hide it in an index somewhere makes no sense to me.

Otherwise, why have a category if it tends to be incomplete and not useful?Wikited 23:11, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
 * The best way is to institute the redirect and leave the category on the page. I've just adjusted it accordingly. Now it redirects to the proper article and remains under the category. Brad101AWB (talk) 18:27, 13 March 2009 (UTC)