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Oh, I wasn't suggesting cutting it without moving the wicks. I was juat asking if we think 65 wicks is too many to bother changing it at all. My intention was to clean up the wicks and then cutlist it.
But it sounds like it'd be okay, so I'll put it on my to-do list and get to fixing it... hm, I think this weekend, Sunday probably.
^ Whether that's true or not depends on why the redirect exists, Samaritan. In some cases, they can be wicked quite legitimately, for instance, when the main name uses a gendered term but the trope can apply equally well to the other gender, and the redirect is the other gendered term. Another instance is for AmEnglish/BritEnglish spelling differences The redirect to the other spelling exists in part so that editors don't have to memorise/memorize which one the trope uses.
That's part of why the emphasis was put. :)
In theory, we all write in English, but sentence structure and spelling vary accourding to regional preferences.
In theory, non-gendered tropes don't use gendered names.
In theory, every work has it's own page.
In practice', these factors (and others) aren't true. :)
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.^ In theory, "according" isn't spelled "accourding", and "it's" doesn't mean "its".
Typos aside, redirects having wicks is OK in rare circumstances, so they're cleaned up less often than outright redlinks are. Unfortunate Implication is not one of those rare circumstances.
2025: the year it all ends?

Is 65 wicks and no inbounds sufficiently low to delete a redirect to a trope with 3,375 wicks and 15.974 inbounds?
I ask because the redirect is a standard singular form of a plural trope name that would be easily wikiworded using a vertical bar and curly braces.
For reference, Unfortunate Implication is a redirect to Unfortunate Implications. I'd be down to clean up those wicks and cutlist the redirect myself if y'all think that's okay.
I mean, I can't do it right this second, but I can do it.
Edited by SolipSchism