Talk:Can Of Worms

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Unnecessary redirects?

This page has two redirects that I could find, "Can of Worms" and "Can of worms".

Given that the wiki's browser automatically searches for another link with different capitalization, are these really necessary redirects?

The page "Hand of Creation" is a similar redirect of questionable usefulness. A1 (talk) 09:43, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

The wiki does not automatically search for other capitalizations; try it with another link. For example, Demon conch is a broken redirect, while Demon Conch is not. --AmsterWikis (talk) 10:49, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
However, the wiki's browser does search for capitalization, if I were to search "Demon conch" it would go to the Demon Conch page, despite the different capitalization. so as long as someone changes all redirects to those pages there shouldn't be any problems. A1 (talk) 16:57, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
Due to the lack of a response I'll be doing this soon regardless (I think a consensus has been reached), if you have any objections please say them now (as in, when you are reading this). I'll wait two more days before I actually do this, or I just won't do it if someone provides a good reason to keep the redirects. Sorry if this sounds passive-aggressive, but something should be done soon. A1 (talk) 23:08, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
TIL I can't delete those, because I'm not an admin, which makes sense. Also I didn't do it in two days because I got burnt out from completely unrelated reasons. Anyways, I've made those a candidate for deletion instead. A1 (talk) 19:23, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
Those redirects may not be useful, but they don't hurt anything (including SEO). --Westgrass (talk) 21:03, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────In a way, they do. If I were to search "Hand of Creation" (with a lowercase o) it would use the redirect, causing a "redirected from..." To show up. While this may sound little (because it is), it makes it messier, and as far as I'm aware, it doesn't help anything (or at least, not anything significant for the client). So unless it optimizes The search engine, it does nothing but make it messier. If it does optimize the search engine, I doubt it would be enough to make it worth the messiness. -A1 (talk) 22:40, 24 April 2023 (UTC)