User talk:Chillicane

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[edit] Musician redirects

Hi Chillicane, I notice you are helping out by redirecting musicians without articles to the groups which they are a member of. This is a good idea, but I thought I'd let you know that it is best not to link to an article which just redirects back to the original article - it is best to have them as bold. For this reason I have removed the links in (eg. Hilltop Hoods and The Herd) and made them bold. -- Chuq 05:29, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Thats ok I'll go over the details:

The musician redirects themselves, they are fine, with the category & the redirect to the main group, thats no problem;

In the band article itself, usually the topic is bold; but it is also convention to put any other topics, which are covered in the article, in bold, so in this case the members of the group would be in bold;

In the band article still, it is best not to link to a page that just redirects back; so don't link to the band members. Exception (of the pages I have looked at so far) is Traksewt, because there is a "full" article, not just a redirect, it is ok to link to that article.

Note that it is still ok to link to the musician names from within *other* articles, just not from within the one that the musician names redirect into!

Hope this all makes sense! -- Chuq 05:42, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

(Note - I wrote this reply before your second edit! Also you can sign your name after posts on talk pages, just write " ~~~~ " -- Chuq 05:45, 11 October 2006 (UTC))

Exactly like that :) Chuq 05:47, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

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