Odd... it hasn't pointed there since 2005. I'd suggest pointing it back, but that page seems to be inactive, so I don't think there's much point –
Gurch09:14, 23 April 2007 (UTC)reply
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Keep. Oddly enough, I actually remember searching for this article using this exact misspelling. "I before e" misspellings are pretty common. ---
RockMFR01:01, 23 April 2007 (UTC)reply
Keep - Yes, wikilinks that go to the wrong spelling should be fixed, but the main use of redirects is to assist users using the search box. Would you prefer they get a 'page not found'? --
Golbez23:45, 26 April 2007 (UTC)reply
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The result of the debate was restore article and rename to
Shocker Toys. Article prior to redirect needs to considered fully at AfD if someone believes it should be deleted. This isn't the place for these discussions. WjBscribe16:31, 24 April 2007 (UTC)reply
Invalid redirect I contend that the current redirect has little merit. The company actually exists and could have its own wiki page. As such, it makes little sense to have it redirect the way it does. This does prove to make it difficult to search for any information about the company. The quotation marks around the name are also unnecessary --
Avatar of chaos08:18, 22 April 2007 (UTC)reply
The result of the debate was deleted: the MediaWiki software already handles capitalization differences, even if it is a name in the deletion log. —
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14:18, 28 April 2007 (UTC)reply
It's not actually a misspelling, as it differs only in capitalization. Entering "james surowiecki" into the Search box will automatically bring up
James Surowiecki if
james surowiecki doesn't exist, so it's not necessary for that. The only instance I can think of in which it would be useful is if someone tried to
james surowiecki from an article, in which case it will show up blue only if this redirect is in place. Since the name should always be capitalized in an article, however, showing a red link would seem to me to be the desired behavior in order to encourage its correction, so it is unnecessary for this reason also. On the other hand, we have hundreds of redirects like this, and I don't think it's doing any harm, so there is no pressing need to remove it –
Gurch22:54, 22 April 2007 (UTC)reply
My understanding (which could well be wrong) is that the name of a deleted article actually remains in the database (for undeletion, logs, etc.), and the automatic case-correction only works for names that aren't in the database. So, we wouldn't have needed this if it hadn't been created, but now we need it simply and solely because it was created. It's almost a catch-22.
Xtifrtälk10:25, 24 April 2007 (UTC)reply