User talk:CimanyD/archives/Oct 2011

Changing shortcuts

Changing shortcuts on a page stops pages linked to it via the shortcut working. Please don't change shortcuts without some discussion first, especially important ones where people might remember a particular shortcut and use it. And the five pillars page already has enough shortcuts I believe. Dmcq (talk) 17:14, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Changing what shortcuts display on a page (in {{shortcut}}, for example) doesn't change what shortcuts exist. Shortcuts are redirect pages. Even if someone completely removed the {{shortcut}} from WP:5, or any other page with it, none of the pages that redirect to it would change. Dynamic|cimanyD contact me ⁞ my edits 22:42, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks about that. I noticed the shortcuts listed on the page have not changed for at least a year so I see no reason someone should change them without discussion. Dmcq (talk) 10:03, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Looking in the history, I also see multiple editors have reverted the addition of WP:5, as well as others, with no more reason than "it's unnecessarily confusing to clutter page with multiple shortcuts, "more shortcuts == more confusion," "Do we need yet another shortcut?" etc. That's why I removed the unhelpful shortcut WP:FIVEPILLARS from the page (it's barely shorter than wp:five pillars, the actual page) and added the shortest shortcut, WP:5. →Dynamic|cimanyD← (contact me) 12:33, 3 October 2011 (UTC)