Category talk:Instance:Maraudon

Dead link from Wikipedia
I'm documenting Wikipedia's Template:Familypedia and thought I might get some tips from its Template:Wowwiki (since you guys are the biggest and possibly best). Well, I think I got some good ideas, but I failed in checking the second example link, which purports to lead to Category:Instance:Maraudon.

Looks as if someone has redirected that category then someone has shortsightedly deleted it. Not a good idea to delete categories that someone may later recreate or at least look for. Leaving a category redirect in place ensures that nobody is very likely to spend time recreating a deprecated category. Ignorant editors may create links to such a category and not bother to look at the target, but a bot can clean up that sort of error easily.

More importantly in this case, having that template in place would ensure that interested visitors from the outer space represented by Wikipedia see that there is intelligent life here and don't go away with their image of Wikia tarnished for ever. They might turn into fervent contributors if given a more rational introduction to the site.

Best of luck, folks. And don't be surprised if Familypedia eases you off top spot in the next 12 months. Vee haff plans.

— Robin Patterson (Talk) 15:42, 15 April 2009 (UTC)