Author: jerryopennap

Description:
An example:
A user creates the article [[The Foo]], and it becomes so large that the article becomes split up into several subarticles, including [[History of Foo]], [[Modern Foo]], and [[Foo in Fiction]]. On each subarticle, [[Template:Main]] is translcuded by adding the {{Main|The Foo}}, which reproduces "Main Article: [[The Foo|]]".

Another editor recognizes that [[The Foo]] is not compliant with the manual of style, in that it has a superfluous "The" in the page name, and he want to fix this by moving the article to [[Foo]]. Prior to doing this, the diligent editor checks [[Special:Whatlinkshere/The_Foo]], to determine if any links need to be updated in the process, to prevent double-redirects. He is told "No pages in the English Wikipedia link to [[The Foo]]", and proceeds with the page move.

The result is several double-redirects which confuse some readers. In this example, it was only three, and they would be easily found by reading the [[The Foo]] page itself; there are certainly other cases where it is not so easy and more prolific.

Version: unspecified
Severity: normal