Talk:List of The Simpsons characters

I just tested the waters on moving the dreadfuly named The Simpsons/Marge to *shock* Marge Simpson. If all the characters were moved in this way then linking to these articles will be as easy as [[this]]. I've already done this with the Star Wars and Star Trek articles and the result has been increased contributions to those article (who wants to write [[Star Wars/Han Solo|Han Solo]] each and every time you want to link to an article about, *gasp*, Han Solo -- there simply ain't anybody else using that name that is near as well known as the Star Wars character). Recently this has also been done for the Middle-earth articles and I think it will soon be time to do the same to The Simpsons articles. I say we kill the / pages! --mav 17:53 Jul 24, 2002 (PDT)

I was going to suggest that the characters could all be organized under The_Simpsons/..., and redirect pages could be used to point to the clumsier headings, but I see the problem with this idea. If Homer_Simpson redirected to The_Simpsons/Homer, the problem is that other articles can't use [[Homer_Simpson]], because the software doesn't do multiple indirection (to avoid loops?) I know many of you are already aware of this, I'm just explictly pointing it out to others who aren't. Marknau

I have already moved and changed all the links for The Simpsons/Homer to Homer (The Simpsons) is this a problem? I did a similar move fo the Character page... -- *<:@)

Actually there is a larger problem with this: Users, especially new ones, will not know that the more sensible redirects extist and will only see the / page title or the parentetical ones and they will tend to use pipes to link to these articles when they could simply use a free link (example: [[Homer Simpson]] instead of [[The Simpsons/Homer|Homer Simpson]] or [[Homer (The Simpsons)|Homer Simpson]]). --mav