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Excessive-Menace (Fifth Year at Tropey's)
2022-12-09 21:48:50

I think keeping the red link there is alright, so that if/when Creator.Willa Cather does get made, it'll just turn blue.

See also Administrivia.Red Link. While it does talk about links to works, I'm assuming red links to Creators are also okay.

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Aazkaal Since: Sep, 2019
2022-12-09 21:50:19

As far as I know, those should be kept, same as with works; that way, when the creator's page does get created, we wouldn't need to look all around the wiki to cross-link their page.

Exception is when the "creator" has no tropable works, which makes creating the page about them pointless (people often tries to put in politicians that way, amongst other things).

(ninja'd, as always)

Edited by Aazkaal
JustNormalMusicLover (Experienced Trainee)
2022-12-09 21:52:42

I see. Is the other work page that shows up as red link in Excited Show Title should be kept too? The creator has only 2 works in overall.

Edit: I might have misconfused this meaning. I suppose that means Red links can stay red links if they're within rules. Let things be things.

Edit again: Well, looks like we've got our answers. At least we got some clarification here.

Edited by JustNormalMusicLover Nothing solves a day of depression better than a warm smile.
GastonRabbit MOD (General of TV Troops)
2022-12-09 22:38:41

I don't know why Administrivia.Red Link doesn't mention creators, because those are fine in addition to red links for works. I'll fix that.

Edit: Done, and I removed an outdated commented-out paragraph regarding how red links worked before the 1.8 update in 2018 (or didn't work, since there were some cases of links to nonexistent pages being blue before that update fixed that) since it should have been removed instead of commented out.

Edited by GastonRabbit I got a rock for Halloween.
GnomeTitan Since: Aug, 2013
2022-12-10 02:42:14

It hasn’t been said explicitly, maybe it goes without saying, but I think it can’t hurt to say it: if you encounter a red creator link, and know enough about the creator to make a page for them, please do so.

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