Jump to content

Talk:Broad Street railway station (England)/GA1

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

GA Review

[edit]

Article (edit | visual edit | history) · Article talk (edit | history) · Watch

Reviewer: The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) 13:12, 17 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]


That's about all I have for this run through. On hold. The Rambling Man (talk) 13:44, 17 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@The Rambling Man: All addressed, I think. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 16:16, 17 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I've asked this before, and nobody has answered. What is wrong with piping to a redirect? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 18:13, 18 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Good work Ritchie333, I appreciate your responses and modifications, so I'll promote. The Rambling Man (talk) 19:47, 19 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers - though can you answer Redrose's question though, because as I've said, some templates automatically generate a pipe to a redirect by design, for consistency. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 19:52, 19 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
The use of such templates is purely optional, and in my opinion, detremental when results are either inconsistent or misguided. I've seen it before with ship class templates. Pages take longer to load when subjecting to such "helpful" templates and given they don't actually aid the reader at all, I see no benefit at all in using them. They also work against a number of the editing tools which are helpful to discover issues (such as overlinking), so if it was me, I'd ditch these basically pointless inline templates altogether, especially when they don't actually link to the correct page. The Rambling Man (talk) 20:13, 19 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
To take one example mentioned above, it takes negligible extra time to load Birmingham New Street than to load Birmingham New Street. Any perceived difference will be down to server load, network traffic or browser caching. The same page is reached both times, so I don't see how you can claim "they don't actually link to the correct page" either. More at WP:NOTBROKEN. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 10:18, 20 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]