Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1251315-20150625184021/@comment-1251315-20150625194748

Snapper2 wrote: I think you give people too little credit. A user who knows how to and has an interest in looking at what redirects are in a particular category should also know how to and have an interest in finding a special page. I don't give people "too little credit" and not everyone cares to look at special pages. You are assuming that the casual reader and average editor knows how wiki's work. A lot of people just passing through want to find the information without a ton of effort: finding a special page, understanding how it works and then finding the redirect is far too much effort.

This is true for casual editors, who don't care to know about the little intricacies of wiki's and only care for making some edits: very few people on wiki's care to know about the specifics and backend functionality available to them.

What you are trying to suggest is that, because you know about all the special pages and how wiki's work, everyone else automatically knows how to do so as well. This is a fallacy and poor reasoning. Like I pointed out, many wiki's categorise redirects: it's just something that logically makes sense, especially as other sources are cached or liable for problems (especially on Wikia where pages can get broken unintentionally).

Redirects are already excluded from Special:UncategorizedPages. Wasn't aware, but it's still a good idea to categorise them anyway.