User:Sam Pointon/Redirection

Redirect bypassation
Hi, I noticed that you made an edit to bypass a redirect at. However, WP:REDIRECT specifically forbids editing solely to avoid redirects - it introduces needsless verbiage. Processing a redirect is not expensive either - every edit is far more expensive, so no performance can be gained by removing redirects. There is nothing inherently wrong with redirects, and can be beneficial because there's less unnecessary piping, making the wikimarkup easier to read &mdash; they're not broken, so don't need to be 'fixed'. Please bear this in mind when you are pondering circumventing redirects.