Board Thread:The Scriptorium/@comment-206.123.250.91-20140402145622/@comment-24150802-20140402184324

TKE Super Dave, that's an excellent, well laid out description of both sides of the issue!

I agree with Thepeopleseason that it's worth leaving redirects in place. As he says, posts to HabitRPG's chat areas can't be edited, and (with the exception of the Tavern) those posts can remain visible for days or weeks.

For external websites, it's generally true that the content owner can change their links, but that can be difficult for inexperienced content owners (e.g., people who have written blog posts on blogging platforms that don't make edit features easy to find). Content owners who no longer care about their content will never edit their links. This then disadvantages users who try to use the old links.

For websites in general, it's good practice to always put in redirections when you move content, and to leave them in place permanently. The wiki does make this more annoying than for a normal website, but the annoyance is really just to us wiki editors, and I think it's worth putting up with that for the sake of a better user experience.