Talk:Shield-surfing

Capitalization makes a difference in this case.

I created the redirect because the hyphen (-) makes a difference. The hyphen makes "Shield-Surfing" (capitalized) a whole word, different from the whole word "Shield-surfing" (non-capitalized).

If it were an underscore (_), that makes no difference. The underscore makes "Shield_Surfing" (capitalized) the same as "Shield_surfing" (non-capitalized).

Abarbarea (talk) 18:37, March 6, 2021 (UTC)

Eh, as an admin, I'm fine with the redirect. Like Enjoyer said, redirects are cheap.

I'm less certain about the formatting of the actual page with the hyphen and the -ing, however. Second thing first, usually you try and keep to the simplest form of the wording for a title. And first thing second, from the "Ability Controls" pause menu:

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- Sanityormadness (talk) 19:52, March 6, 2021 (UTC)

@ Sanityormadness - Thank you for the image! I'll put it up in the article. As far as the redirect, I just wanted to cover any permutation for the search.

I'll also create a redirect for "Shield Surf", now that I'm looking at the image...

Abarbarea (talk) 21:48, March 6, 2021 (UTC)

As mentioned in the edit summary, resources are irrelevant...this is a matter of validity. The redirect literally does nothing. You will still find the article regardless of whether it exists or not. I actually do this for a living and actively involved with the development of MediaWiki, please don't take this personally.

Just as a proof of concept we'll use Anti-Fairy as an example. You can put "anti-fairy" or "anti-Fairy" and it will find it and there is no redirect.

Redirects created solely for the purpose of case are useless and unnecessary...because they don't do anything. Shield Surf‎ is actually helpful though, because it aids in search. --Charitwo (talk) 16:39, March 7, 2021 (UTC)

Addendum, I missed part of the conversation, a couple more items to address:

1. Underscores are purely cosmetic, it's the DNS compliant version of a space. In a wiki article you should generally avoid using them because it's not aesthetic. Shield Surfing or Shield_Surfing is the same thing to Mediawiki for example.
2. Hyphen has no bearing on search capability.

--Charitwo (talk) 16:46, March 7, 2021 (UTC)

I agree with Charitwo. Most of your search algorithms are not affected by capitalization or tokens such as underscores or hyphens. TheDoctor8910 (talk) 16:56, March 7, 2021 (UTC)