Talk:Southtown (song)

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Track listing template[edit]

@Walter Görlitz: I changed it to tracklist from track listing because there is a redirect from template:tracklist to template:track listing. Using tracklist saves 4 bytes in the article every time it's used. There are hundreds of articles which use tracklist instead of track listing and it works very well. Jodosma (talk) 09:41, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

We don't force linking to redirects intentionally. Walter Görlitz (talk) 17:04, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Why not? If that's the case why hasn't the redirecting template been deleted, what is its purpose? However, if you insist I won't make any more similar edits. Jodosma (talk) 17:56, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

If a link is pointed to a redirect, we don't need to intentionally move it to the correct destination (WP:NOTBROKEN). However, we also don't intentionally point a correct link to redirect just because it redirects to the correct location. Start at MOS:LINK. Walter Görlitz (talk) 18:12, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds like a lot of nit-picking to me, Wikipedia:Redirect#Template redirects almost encourages the use of template redirects, while MOS:LINK doesn't specifically mention template redirects at all. Jodosma (talk) 19:07, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I think you're misreading it. What the former encourages is that if a link to a redirect exists, that one should not change it. It does not encourage forcing links to redirects because they exist. Walter Görlitz (talk) 19:30, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

OK, ciao. Jodosma (talk) 19:38, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Great. I was coming to say that there is a bot that comes by and cleans these up, and it automatically bypasses redirects, but usually only does so it the heading it also "tracklist". Walter Görlitz (talk) 19:47, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]