Thread:Belle pullman/@comment-39097528-20200707112314/@comment-3182821-20200707123402

It's quite possible that if you were looking for info about, say, a "Matthew" that you know was in Cats, and the surname you know isn't showing up, that you might have to look through more than one page. If I were searching for information about someone on wikipedia, or even google, I wouldn't automatically assume the first close not not exact result was the page I wanted. Yes, ideally we want to make it as easy as possible for readers, but dozens of redirect pages isn't going to be worth it.

It's worth noting that before I cleared up the area of "Redirects", there were approx 700 redirect pages, hundreds of them broken and double redirects, not including the photo redirects. It has taken an awful lot of work to get it under control.

The one use of redirects that is absolutely not acceptable is to rename an inaccurately named page, and leave a redirect in place of editing the links to the correct title. It is tedious, but if for example a performer's name was mis-spelled, the cast lists need to be edited rather than leaving the wrong spelling and letting the redirect do the work. This, for example, needs work - since the gallery was renamed to "2004".