Forum:Redirect changing: Necessary or not?

One of my biggest contributions to Wikis is changing redirects. An example would be changing UPR to UPR. People think it isn't necessary but I need to know other opinions on it. It could seriously decrease the number of unneeded loose redirects on this Wiki if I can change all of them. What do you other users think? -- GrouchMan (Send a note then scram!! ) 23:57, May 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * I personally see no problem with it, but as I said on your talk page, you should leave the ones one card pages, since changing them just makes unnecessary backlinks. In addition, changing redirects is never necessary, really. I don't like them myself, and generally try to avoid them. That being said, changing them is certainly not hurting the wiki, but leaving them really isn't either. Cheesedude 00:07, May 10, 2010 (UTC)


 * Don't see why not, but I don't quite understand the need. UPR left as it is already redirects to Ultra Parallel Rare... It seems kind of... not worth the hassle, to change every redirect link, but if you want to, I don't see why you should be stopped.--YamiWheeler 00:08, May 10, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your support, both of you. -- GrouchMan (Send a note then scram!! ) 00:31, May 10, 2010 (UTC)

Doesn't matter as long as it's called ultra rare. By the way, who like ultra rare cards? - Fallensilence


 * Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Piped_link. The second bullet.  --Deus Ex Machina (Talk) 21:01, May 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * Is Wikipedia policy automatic policy across all wikis in wikia? Cheesedude 23:03, May 10, 2010 (UTC)


 * I guess not. - Fallensilence


 * I prefer linking Yusei than Yusei or Spell than Spell, where the purpose is to get the reader to the page. The main arguments for not skipping the redirect are:
 * It looks neater.
 * If you ask me, skipping the redirect makes the outputted pages neater, which is more important than what their source code looks like.
 * It makes Special:WhatLinksHere more useful.
 * I'd agree with for things like Darth Vader instead of Darth Vader . I can understand people wanting to find instances where each of those names are used, but nobody's going to want to find when "Yusei" is used instead of "Yusei Fudo". Plus to be consistent, you'd have to link "Yugi" to a first name redirect, but Yugi is a disambiguation page, so you'd have to make a redirect like "Yugi (Muto)" and link Yugi, for it's WhatLinksHere to be as useful as Yusei Fudo's.
 * Linking set and card numbers are a different story. The idea of linking them is to link to the number. When you see LOB-EN001 on card articles, lists and galleries, it's to have the set number linked, not to help get the user to the user get to the "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" article. Whenever you see it, you're either already on the "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" page or there's another adjacent link to "Blue-Eyes White Dragon".  LOB-EN001 Blue-Eyes White Dragon 89631139  is no more significant than  LOB-EN001 Blue-Eyes White Dragon 89631139 . The current version:  LOB-EN001 Blue-Eyes White Dragon 89631139  links the first ad third terms specifically to use the redirects, not to help the reader get to the "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" article.
 * -- Deltaneos (talk) 19:55, May 13, 2010 (UTC)