Talk:The golden compass

Redirection: To the Book or to the Film?

This page was twice altered to redirect to the 2007 film based on this book instead of the book itself. But it is more logical to link to the original work rather than a later derivative. Indeed, this is the prevailing practice on Wikipedia: for example, The Fellowship of the Ring redirects to Tolkein's book, not to the movie.

I agree that it should redirect to the novel, and had already changed that a week or so ago. seresin ( ¡? ) 04:45, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Tolkien film and novel shares the same name. That's not the case here. When I typed in The Golden Compass, I expected to and wanted to read the article on the film. Imagine my surprise to find it redirected to a novel with a different name. There's already a link to the novel in the very first line of the article to the film. --60.241.170.216 (talk) 12:48, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

When dealing with multiple works of the same name, it is, of course, logical to link to the original work. However, this is not Lord of the Rings, and the novel was never even intended to be called The Golden Compass, as is stated in the articles. Add to this the fact that His Dark Materials: Northern Lights actually redirects to the film, while all the ones with the film's title redirect to the novel, and you have a complete redirection mess. I'm sure that those who are interested in the novel can click the link in the first sentence of the film's article. It is also a good idea to keep in mind that redirection is for common spelling/wording/capitalization mistakes, not for correcting perceived intentions. --24.78.39.156 (talk) 02:56, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Does anyone want to explain why the other redirect pages with the same name link to the film, while this one redirects to the book? 24.78.39.156 (talk) 22:28, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]