Nothing should be pointing into the Workshop (if something is, fix that, don't create a redirect). Once a trope launches out of the Workshop nothing should remain behind, otherwise the Workshop will end up being more fossil redirects than actual new trope proposals.
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I was merely trying to fix broken redirects by pointing them to the new locations. I'm happy that I've basically been given the go-ahead to delete such when they occur. Thanks for the info.
No prob. One thing to check before you do anything along those lines is whether anything actually uses the potential redirect -- do that with the "What Links Here" tool in the sidebar. If nothing links to it, nuke it, don't (re)create it.
And then after clicking the "What Links Here", use the "Edit All" tab to MassEditRegex all of the old links to new locations :)
Lab, I've been having problems using regex anyway because regex seems to be impossible to learn.
Yeah, Regex isn't exactly the easiest thing in the world to understand. I'm a programmer in my day job, for pete's sake, and I barely grasp it.
This might help -- it's a regex tester website that will help you debug your expressions. I use it all the time. It also explains what is wrong when something's broken, and why, and usually how to fix it.
Thank you LT, it turns out I needed to use parentheses.
Cool. Glad I could help.
Huh, weird. I'm a programmer in my day job, and regex is like second nature to me. I think I mainly learned by reading man perlretut. Am I just odd or something?
It might be dependent on its prominence in our respective work. I'm not doing a lot where regex is the best tool for the job. I've done (and learned) more regex for my bot than I have for tasks in my day job.