Special:Badtitle/NS90:Forum:Wiki Talk/Redirect vs. deletion/reply (3)

When two parallel pages are merged into one (e.g. Nipple And Dimed into Nipple-and-Dimed), changes may have been made on one page and not the other. Keeping both pages' edit histories rather than just deleting one of the pages allows editors of both pages to be credited properly.

Anyway, I run a separate web site, and when I want to name a storytelling design pattern, I link to ATT. Prior to the end of May 2014, I had instead linked to TV Tropes. I spent most of June translating TV Tropes links to instead point at ATT, which often involved guessing whether or not a hyphen was present and whether or not a particular preposition got lowercased because the custom title system on TVT was case- and punctuation-insensitive, unlike MediaWiki titles. (I was not aware of Link Suggest; I just Googled it right now.) I had to do the same thing when I imported a year and a half of edits that I had made on TV Tropes to our article about Cracked.com. If administrators keep using the option to move pages without leaving a redirect, links to those pages will break.