Board Thread:Wiki-Related Discussion/@comment-4975807-20150919043936

Apologies for the long explanation if you are already familiar with what these pages do as I am explaining this for those who don't yet know what are the purpose of redirect and disambig pages. The purpose of redirect pages is to make things easier if a character/location/item/thing is known by more than one name, but a page for the character/location/item/thing already exists under another specific name. What a redirect page does is automatically take you to the already existing page, even if it's the redirect page name that is linked or clicked on. An example would be Mary Margaret. Her actual page name is Mary Margaret Blanchard, but because a redirect page name was created for Mary Margaret, clicking on a link that has Mary Margaret in double brackets will automatically take you to Mary Margaret Blanchard's page.

A disambiguation page is for characters that share the same name. An example is Thief, which several characters have been credited as. The purpose of a disambig page is to make it easier to navigate between similarly named pages, and to distinguish characters even though they share the same name.

And now to the main discussion. XD

I wanted to ask everyone's opinion on redirect pages and disambig pages on this wiki, and in what cases should they be created. For example, should a redirect page for something still exist even if it's something that's already linked on a disambig page? An example might be the redirect page for Peasant Ringleader. There are several characters with the word "Peasant" in their name, so should a disambig page be created for them? And if Peasant Ringleader is added to that particular disambig page, should the separate redirect page still stay for that one character? Additionally, I suggest possibly making disambig pages for actors, characters and/or the television crew (writers, directors) that share the same first or last name as a way to make pages easier to navigate. 