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TheRoguePenguin Since: Jul, 2009
27th Sep, 2016 11:38:04 PM

Main is for articles. You're not supposed to use main redirects except for a few cases, this not being one of them. Those main redirects to non-tropes are probably just from sheer volume of inbound links.

TropesForever Since: Sep, 2016
28th Sep, 2016 12:52:08 AM

They're kept because other pages on the wiki still link to them, a leftover from when all work pages were in the mainspace. We're not supposed to create any new ones.

HeraldAlberich (Before Recorded History)
28th Sep, 2016 04:30:25 AM

And once the links on the wiki are corrected, most of them are cutlisted. But some are kept because they have a lot of links from elsewhere on the Internet, which we can't change, and we don't want those links to break.

GnomeTitan Since: Aug, 2013
28th Sep, 2016 04:46:56 AM

Also, main redirects aren't necessary anymore (except to keep old links valid), since if you try to look for something that doesn't have a main page, but exists in other namespaces, the wiki engine's search functionality will take you there anyway.

TropesForever Since: Sep, 2016
28th Sep, 2016 12:39:37 PM

^^I thought inbounds didn't matter because it shows a list of namespaces where the page does exist. I've definitely seen them cutlisted with more than 30 wicks.

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