Help talk:Redirects

Important: What is a proper convention on Soft Redirects?
I notice Template:Redirect is only used for Nintendo Wiki, and even then only for Nintendo 64DD and people involved in game dev (I think).

At present I also notice a lot of normal redirects to the NIWA wikis, e.g. to ssbwiki Shield; Should all these links to external wikis be turned into soft redirects? Or which ones?

In addition, I am curious as to some of the reasons for soft redirects at all? It's is useful to know when one is leaving Zelda Wiki, but then again, are there any soft redirects for external links?

Lastly, I notice that soft redirects under The Groosenator were removed (presumably because they are not linked to from the (main) namespace), such the first three that occurred on 3rd Nov - Of course, these three may be rightly so since they are only used there and not in the (main) namespace, but unless we make more soft redirects to the relevant wikis they can't be replaced. (Is the reason "Unnecessary redirect" the lack of use as a link in the (main) namespace, to external pages?)

Well, I guess the most important thing is to sort out: When should we be using soft redirects and when shouldn't we, since "These are used instead of normal redirects when the destination is a special page or a page on another wiki, namely that of a NIWA member" doesn't seem to be followed, is it?

-- KokoroSenshi 06:16, 18 December 2015 (UTC)