User talk:Colonies Chris/Archive/2018/Feb

Venue names

When editing concert tour articles, why do you use the name that the corresponding venue was at the time the tour took place? 96.227.141.184 (talk) 11:52, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi - if a reader clicks on that link, a redirect will take them to the current name of the venue. Adding piping to the current name provides no significant benefit, because following a redirect takes an insignificant amount of server time. What's more, many venues change name frequently as sponsorship deals expire and are replaced; when this happens, only a single redirect needs to be changed to point to the new name - a much better solution tham changing piping on many individual links, across many articles. (For example, Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater has had five different names in the last decade, and is linked in close to 500 articles - 5 changes to a redirect vs 2500 pipings). There are other reasons too - see WP:NOPIPE and WP:NOTBROKEN for a fuller description of reasons not to pipe this sort of link. Colonies Chris (talk) 12:28, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

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HMS Matilda

Hi Colonies Chris, I understand the policy, I just don't agree with it. I would agree that for each vessel there was information that could be removed, but the solution is not truncation but editing. I realize that drive-by shooting is faster than editing, but if it doesn't achieve the object of the policy, perhaps it is not the best approach. Cheers, Acad Ronin (talk) 18:43, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for the gratuitous insult. I really don't care whether you disagree with the policy. Those are the agreed guidelines for this sort of page. If you don't like it, you should try to get them changed. In the meantime, comply with them. That's what my editing did. One blue link per page, no more information than is necessary to enable the reader to decide which link to click. It's a disambiguation page, not an article. Colonies Chris (talk) 19:05, 1 February 2018 (UTC)