Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Ballet redirects

Ballet redirects

I'm afraid this is a bit confusing, so I'm going to have to explain a bit. {{catmore}} is a quick-header for categories that adds a link to a main page for the category, by default a page with the same name as the category.

Unfortunately, the ballet-related categories have used this, and created whatever pages result.

This leads to some frankly insane redirects:

Redirects of Ballet (partial list)

Ballet redirects 1789 ballet premieres 1821 ballet premieres 1827 ballet premieres 1832 ballet premieres 1836 ballet premieres 1840 ballet premieres 1841 ballet premieres 1842 ballet premieres 1843 ballet premieres 1844 ballet premieres 1845 ballet premieres 1846 ballet premieres 1848 ballet premieres 1849 ballet premieres 1851 ballet premieres 1854 ballet premieres 1855 ballet premieres 1856 ballet premieres 1857 ballet premieres 1858 ballet premieres 1859 ballet premieres 1860 ballet premieres 1861 ballet premieres 1862 ballet premieres 1863 ballet premieres 1864 ballet premieres 1866 ballet premieres 1869 ballet premieres 1887 ballet premieres 1919 ballet premieres 1961 ballet premieres 1962 ballet premieres 1964 ballet premieres 1968 ballet premieres 1977 ballet premieres 1990 ballet premieres 2000 ballet premieres 2001 ballet premieres 2002 ballet premieres 2003 ballet premieres 2004 ballet premieres 2005 ballet premieres 2006 ballet premieres 2007 ballet premieres 2008 ballet premieres

Remember, every single one of those links to Ballet, which neither lists nor discusses ballet by year.

Likewise, Ballets by Arthur Sullivan links to Arthur Sullivan - but Sullivan only wrote two ballets of relatively low importance compared to the rest of his work, so his article only rather briefly discusses them. Also, none of the Ballets by XXXX redirects seem to make any attempt to link to an appropriate section of the composer's article, even when one exists (though I may well be wrong there).

Some, but not all, I'm afraid, of the problematic redirects can be found at Category:Ballet redirects (which created the Ballet redirects redirect to Ballet).

I don't know what to do about it, and I'm afraid that I cannot tag every one of the pages in question, nor can I even identify them all. I will notify WP:BALLET instead -- Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 05:17, 27 October 2008 (UTC)