Thread:Belle pullman/@comment-39097528-20200707112314/@comment-3182821-20200707114734

Searching for the secondary name should bring up the primary article, as they all contain the "Also Known As" field. The only difference between searching for the name with or without the redirect page, is that without you have to hit "enter" to get the results! I think it is reasonable to expect readers to do that much work. Most of the existing redirects are unused, and those that are in use are missed from previous efforts to standardise all the links on a page. I've left those where the names are so different you would likely not assume it's the same person, "Lena Hall" being "Celina Carvajal" for example.

There's a related issue, that cropped up with "Rod / Rodney Weber" - some countries, Germany is the example I am most familiar with, do not believe in stage names. For example, a woman will be credited by her married name from her first performance after the wedding, even if she is well established known as her maiden name. When we have performers who have been known by multiple names/variations on their names, we should prioritise their Equity name / stage name if we can check that. Rod Weber, for example, yes Rod is short for Rodney, but he's established as Rod Weber - he played Greaseball for the entire Las Vegas run of Starlight Express. That overrides the otherwise standard of using the longer version of the name, "Mark John Richardson" over "Mark Johns" etc.