User talk:Quirk of Fate

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Redirects
Hi! I really don't think that it's helpful to create redirects with disambiguations (the part within parentheses) to the name without disambiguations. It only clutters up the search results and it's really unlikely that someone will type e.g. Rudolf Hess (Nazi Party official) in the search box instead of simply Rudolf Hess. Sjö (talk) 07:55, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

Sorry for that! I didn't know it would clutter up the search results. Thanks for telling me. Quirk of Fate (talk) 07:58, 20 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Well, people will find Rudolf Hess anyway. I appreciate the effort you put in, but it might be more useful to use it for something else on Wikipedia. Sjö (talk) 08:12, 20 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Pretty well all of your editing consists of creating totally pointless redirects. For example, anyone looking for information about David Cameron is likely to go directly to David Cameron, and it is pretty well inconceivable that they would try to go to an article called David Cameron (PM). We have redirects for things which people are likely to search for, not for everything that anyone can dream up that possibly could be seen as a way of referring to a subject. What is more, if there are a few useful redirects among those that you have created, they are so totally lost among the useless ones that searching for them so that only the useless ones are deleted would take far too much time. Please don't create any more redirects until you have far more experience of editing Wikipedia, so that you have a better idea what is likely to be considered useful. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 11:36, 31 March 2016 (UTC)