User talk:SF

Did you know typing naughty sorceress quest into the search box and hitting "go" would have taken you to Naughty Sorceress Quest anyways? What's with the redirect?--Dehstil (t|c) 19:52, 2 August 2006 (CDT)

That requires two pageloads: loading the wiki, then searching, whereas the redirect requires one pageload. It also requires more system resources to search rather than to redirect. In general, pages that differ by capitalization bug me anyway. --SF 11:53, 3 August 2006 (CDT)

Actually, here's how it works:

With a redirect

1. Hit "go" with "naughty sorceress quest" sending http request
2. Server parses request does sql query in cached table (of words longer than three letters) for "naughty sorceress quest"
3. Finds redirect
4. Finds redirect's target
5. Return page to client

Without

1. Hit "go" with "naughty sorceress quest" sending http request
2. Server parses request, does sql query in cached table (of words longer than three letters) for "naughty sorceress quest"
3. Finds page
4. Return page to client

Also, the clutter that is a useless redirect consumes more system resources for other things too. At Proposed Standards we decided capitalization redirects are infeasible and useless in most cases (except in very special cases because of the longer than three letters thing), especially because of the number of possible permutations of capitalization per page. *rant* Sorry about that; it's just that it keeps coming up.--Dehstil (t|c) 15:52, 3 August 2006 (CDT)