User talk:84.13.135.234

This is your friendly reminder not to intentionally break redirects.--chris.lawson 15:41, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

You know exactly what I'm talking about, because I and others have told you this before.--chris.lawson 21:13, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Please do not change links so that they go to a redirect page, as you did on Boeing 747-400. Continuing to do this will be considered vandalsim. For example, the link you changed was to the Airborne Laser article. It was formatted as "Airborne Laser|YAL-1A" so that it would read "YAL-1A" in the text, but link directly to the Airborne Laser page. By changing it to YAL-1A, you linked to a page that is redirected back to Airborne Laser. Thanks. - BillCJ 00:19, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

The above is precisely what I'm talking about. You've done this before with at least four other IP addresses. Please stop it. The rest of us are tired of cleaning up after you.--chris.lawson 00:29, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

I did not check the Airborne Laser, sorry. However, in this case, the link you were changing should read "Boeing YAL-1|YAL-1A" so that it links directly to the article. However, the other link you changed on that page was originally correct, and did not need to be modified. See Help:Link for further assistance. Thanks. - BillCJ 00:42, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Please read Help:Link. It will help explain a lot more about linls. Basically, on Wikipedia, it is best to use direct links whenever possible. Rdirect pages exist so that other names of the same article will go to the main page when someone searches for that name.

The problem is what is called a double redirect. Take the "YAL-1A" for example. "YAL-1A" redirects to "Boeing YAL-1" now; but what if the Boeing YAL-1 article was changed to Airborne Laser. THere would now be two redirects in the chain, and that does not work; it would stop on the first redirect. In addition, having a direct link makes it easier to change the link if the article is moved/renamed. There may be other reasons that Wikipedia prefers direct links, but thes are the ones I know of.

Whatever the reason, using dierect links is preferred on Wikipedia, and it is best not to change existing direct links to link to redirect pages. I hope this helps. - BillCJ 01:34, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Sukhoi Superjet 100

In case you have not noticed already, I have changed a link to a redirect, to a link directly to an article page. Therefore the redirect is not being used anymore. However, I would of thought you would have done this long ago and then attacked the previous editor who created it and called them a 'vandal'. It seems you are just an Embraer anorak/nerd.

Clawson, quit being such a bigot!

Dear Chris, your persistent reversals of VLJ article, to which you have contributed nothing but your prejudice, intolerance, egocentrism and ignorance, are consistent with behavior of a bigot. No matter how many times you revert something YOU don’t like (in violation of WP:3RR policy, as on Nov. 3rd), your opinion is no more right than that of people who don’t spend their lives sitting behind the computer policing wikipedia. So get a life and quit censoring articles to which you have had no substantive input. Bxb 08:51, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm, you seem to know alot about Wikipedia all of a sudden. I don't appreciate being played, so whatever is going on here needs to stop. You have made enough disruptive edits already to be considered a vandal, and blocked. - BillCJ 02:36, 17 December 2006 (UTC)