Wikipedia talk:Statistical redirects

A few thoughts
A very useful new page. We should probably mention: – Certes (talk) 15:38, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
 * m:Research:Wikipedia clickstream which (with a great deal of effort) provides an alternative way to count clicks on a wikilink.
 * 1) Piping statistical redirects, which editors unfamiliar with the technique tend to undo per MOS:DABENTRY or WP:DABPIPE depending how it's set up.
 * both of those seem like good additions - feel free to try to add them, if you'd like. Elli (talk &#124; contribs) 21:40, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Protection
Should we be advocating pre-emptive page protection for statistical redirects? Protection policy is that ECP is appropriate for Specific topic areas authorized by Arbcom; pages subject to persistent disruption that semi-protection has failed to stop. Of course, any statistical redirect that attracts repeated unwanted edits by registered editors will have a good case at WP:RFPP, but it would be unusual to protect such non-critical pages pre-emptively as a matter of course. Certes (talk) 23:00, 27 April 2021 (UTC)