Thread:Belle pullman/@comment-39097528-20200707112314/@comment-39097528-20200707115856

I agree that redirects for "alternate" names that are just shortened versions of their full name aren't necessary.

But for performers with very common first names, I don't think it's that obvious that they're the same person. If it were, we wouldn't have had articles for Emma Harris and Emma Kerslake... nor for the three Melissas that were in fact all the same person. And how about cases like Wang Fei? Her native name is very different from her Japanese name and the Japanese production sometimes credits her as Wang Fei and sometimes as Mari Tobita. Typing "Wang Fei" into the search bar and pressing enter gives me Wang Feifei as the first name. I don't think readers should have to look through more than one article just to find the correct actor.

I don't think it's a problem for redirects not to be linked in any page. That's not their purpose anyway.