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:I listed some reasons why we would keep mistakes on [http://stexpanded.wikia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:Jrofeta&oldid=152168#Suppression_of_redirects the July 9, 2009 User talk:Jrofeta#Suppression of redirects], but that section of the page is somewhat cluttered, so I'll amend my vote (for lack of a better term) with reasons we, in my opinion we should keep mistakes. I want to make something very clear. '''Jono is not on trial.''' '''Jono did nothing wrong.''' He had a reasonable viewpoint, and acted on it in a way in a way that was reasonable, not clearly disruptive, broke no rule, and did not go against consensus.--[[User:Emmette Hernandez Coleman|Emmette Hernandez Coleman]] 22:05, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
 
:I listed some reasons why we would keep mistakes on [http://stexpanded.wikia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:Jrofeta&oldid=152168#Suppression_of_redirects the July 9, 2009 User talk:Jrofeta#Suppression of redirects], but that section of the page is somewhat cluttered, so I'll amend my vote (for lack of a better term) with reasons we, in my opinion we should keep mistakes. I want to make something very clear. '''Jono is not on trial.''' '''Jono did nothing wrong.''' He had a reasonable viewpoint, and acted on it in a way in a way that was reasonable, not clearly disruptive, broke no rule, and did not go against consensus.--[[User:Emmette Hernandez Coleman|Emmette Hernandez Coleman]] 22:05, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
::Fine, you say you think we should keep redirects leftover from correcting a mistake. I gathered that. I'll ask again: why do you think we should keep them? That seems highly illogical. --{{User:TimPendragon/sig}} 22:12, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
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::Fine, you say you think we should keep redirects leftover from correcting a mistake. I gathered that. I'll ask again: why do you think we should keep them? That seems highly illogical. The only reasons you have on Jono's talk page, that I can find in all that, are because it might break links in edit summaries and old versions of pages. I fail to see why that should be a concern, because people don't habitually go through old versions of pages for links to ''other'' pages, and edit summaries do not actually link at all. --{{User:TimPendragon/sig}} 22:12, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

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The issue here is weather we should have redirects from former titles? This discussion is, to some extent, a contuation of --Emmette Hernandez Coleman 21:37, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Looking back through the move log, in most of the recent cases where Jono has suppressed a redirect, it was because the original link was either a misspelling or improperly formatted. Therefore, no redirect would be needed because the page with the typo should be edited to link to the new page with the correct spelling. So, I see no problem in Jono's actions. Redirects should of course be kept when there is a commonly used alternate title for a page -- like Star Trek: New Voyages redirected to Star Trek: Phase II, or James Tiberius Kirk to James T. Kirk. But why on earth would we keep mistakes? --TimPendragon AdmHail 03:54, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

I listed some reasons why we would keep mistakes on the July 9, 2009 User talk:Jrofeta#Suppression of redirects, but that section of the page is somewhat cluttered, so I'll amend my vote (for lack of a better term) with reasons we, in my opinion we should keep mistakes. I want to make something very clear. Jono is not on trial. Jono did nothing wrong. He had a reasonable viewpoint, and acted on it in a way in a way that was reasonable, not clearly disruptive, broke no rule, and did not go against consensus.--Emmette Hernandez Coleman 22:05, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Fine, you say you think we should keep redirects leftover from correcting a mistake. I gathered that. I'll ask again: why do you think we should keep them? That seems highly illogical. The only reasons you have on Jono's talk page, that I can find in all that, are because it might break links in edit summaries and old versions of pages. I fail to see why that should be a concern, because people don't habitually go through old versions of pages for links to other pages, and edit summaries do not actually link at all. --TimPendragon AdmHail 22:12, 12 July 2009 (UTC)