Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-4731838-20160604081524/@comment-4271790-20160606000502

I'm quite split on the issue if you ask me. I agree with Rachin123, these redirects certainly aren't a hindrance to the wiki. But I also agree with UltimateSupreme and SuperSajuuk when they argue they are not very necessary either.

For instance: A reader lands on the front page of the wiki. Once they see the chapter in the "Featured Chapter" box on the front page and they see the title of the chapter article (it's The Training Begins!! for me right now), they're going to assume by default that all chapter pages are like that and they'll be unaware that redirects such as Boruto chapter 2 exist.

There will always be that one reader that would type in "Chapter X" or "Naruto chapter X" or "Boruto chapter X", etc etc. That's undeniable. But that would be like one reader of every 10, 50, 100 readers? After getting a good grasp of how chapter articles are presented here, it's unlikely any reader would type in chapters by their serialization number and they're likely going to automatically assume that they have to remember chapter title to type in because they won't know these redirects exist after seeing how chapter articles are displayed here.

I understand that the redirects are there to help users navigate through the site. The best way for users to navigate through the site would be renaming chapter, episode, volume articles, and the like to their serialization numbers such as "Chapter X", "Episode X", or "Volume X" etc etc, but I'm fully cognizant of the fact that most users here wouldn't be up for that because it would be "too much work" (it really wouldn't be too much work at all, one could just run a script to mass rename the pages, but people here won't want that regardless). The redirects can be of help to readers of the site, don't get me wrong. However, how much help would the be if most readers have zero clue they exist once they click and see the chapter title from the front page of the site?

I'm pretty much undecided on the issue at hand. It wouldn't affect me at all if the redirects are kept or deleted. Again, the redirects don't hurt the wiki, but considering how things are structured here, I don't really see how they would help a lot either.