User talk:NotACow

Redirect removal
Hi NotACow, I noticed your edit over at Animal rights where you replaced a link to Chicago, Illinois with a link to Chicago. There is no need to remove redirects as they use very minimal server power in order to fulfill compared with replacing them (which requires a lot!). I found this out a while ago and stopped doing it myself. It is ok to do it if it is part of another edit but not on its own. Cheers, Localzuk (talk) 16:56, 4 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I'd like to second this. In general, it's not a good idea to replace a specific link with a general one, even if the "general" one just happens to point to where you want it to, today.  Specificity in links is almost always good.  A general link that just happens to work today might get rejiggered some day down the road, requiring someone else to fix it then to make it properly specific again.  Specific links are more robust, even if, like   or , they look a bit more cluttered in the wikisource. —Steve Summit (talk) 13:35, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

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