Thread:Nockt/@comment-16533050-20141231202026/@comment-27689364-20141231215819

On the contrary, my recent revisions stem from trying to maintain consistency across the wiki, rather than break it. is unnecessary, as  alone will suffice and doesn't look as silly in source code (this is also how things are linked on the wiki, for the most part - if a link is already spelled correctly and links to an article just fine, there is no need to pipe it with the same exact text (, for example)).

However, if the title of an article is capitalized verbatim, but the actual in-article capitalization conforms to English standards, then it should be piped (adding the " " in a link) to avoid linking to a redirect, as (a) redirections are here to guide readers searching the wiki, rather than to be needlessly used in mainspace articles and (b) this is how most of the verbatim capitalized articles are linked in mainspace articles across the wiki already.

This is why I changed  (which links to a redirect) to   - the created pipelink links directly to the page, rather than to a redirect which in turn auto-links to the intended page, and is more consistent than the redirect link as well.

In regards to my  →   revision: "the" is typically included in mainspace links that link to an article with "the" in the title, for the above reason - it links just fine to the article and shouldn't be piped to separate "the" from "Golden Cat" in the link, as doing so is inconsistent with what's already present on the wiki and unnecessary in general.