Category talk:Type descriptions

redirects for type descriptions

typing out those full names for the individual type descriptions when you link to them is bunk. We need to make redirect pages for all of them that use the three letter names instead. Example: EIE redirects to Ethical Intuitive Extratim (EIE) which is much less to type when you're trying to link to that type description. (I started on it but lost the motivation for the moment) Bionicgoat 08:21, 31 May 2007 (CDT)

Aha! I didn't guess to do that. Of course, let's do it. (Admin 08:47, 31 May 2007 (CDT))

done! Bionicgoat 12:01, 31 May 2007 (CDT)

amazing! :) (Admin 16:54, 31 May 2007 (CDT))

actually, linking to these three letter abbreviations is bad practice. EIE is a redirect page; which will create double redirects. double redirects aren't a problem per se, but if you then have something that redirects to EIE, you will wind up at the EIE redirect page rather than the page Ethical Intuitive Extrovert Ethical Intuitive Extrotim. Niffweed17 15:38, 10 June 2007 (CDT)

Are you saying that the redirect process allows for only one stage of redirecting? (Admin 15:48, 10 June 2007 (CDT))

yes. As an example, take this page; which redirects to EIE.

Come to think, I'm not exactly sure why Wikipedia dissuades linking in articles to redirects, but you definitely can't redirect to a redirect. Niffweed17 22:46, 10 June 2007 (CDT)

Okay, that is too bad. Next question: can you think of a situation when we would redirect to a three-letter type name? (Admin 23:18, 10 June 2007 (CDT))

no, but i can think of a situation in which we might have a double redirect: if people move pages around (ie Intuitive Ethical Extratim => Intuitive Ethical Extrovert) you will have a double redirect from the EIE page. all that need be done is then fix the EIE redirect and anything else that links to the old page, which is doable but will likely be rather a pain, because you're likely to have upwards of thirty or forty different pages linking to each of the types. Niffweed17 13:49, 11 June 2007 (CDT)

As I understand it, we can avoid these problems by making sure we always use internal links of the "EIE" form. This way we will only have to change 16 redirects if we decide to spell "extratim" differently or make any other changes. (Admin 14:44, 11 June 2007 (CDT))

presumably misspellings such as Intuitive Ethical Extravert will also be redirects. Niffweed17 16:10, 12 June 2007 (CDT)

wrong type but you get the idea. Niffweed17 16:10, 12 June 2007 (CDT)

Yeah, that is something we definitely need a bot for. Thehotelambush 23:12, 4 July 2007 (CDT)

"The individual"

Is there any way to get away from phrases like "the individual" in our descriptions of IM elements and types? I couldn't think of anything better at the time. --Admin 04:20, 11 July 2007 (CDT)