MediaWiki talk:Autoredircomment

message: Great, making redirects just became more time-consuming, completely defeating the point of the automatic summary. Why? Well, when I redirect a page, do I really want my summary to link to a page that says this: 
:In other words, the user did not deliberately describe his/her edit.
Leaving the summary blank knowing it will be filled in with something appropriate is "deliberate" by any meaningful definition of the word. Unfortunately, I can't do that any more. The point of this automated summary is to save users the trouble of typing in their own edit summary when creating a redirect. Now I have to go to that trouble, or have my summary linked to a page that makes me sound incompetent. Is there really a need for this? – Gurch 13:12, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If the text contained within Wikipedia:Automatic edit summaries isn't quite accurate, why don't you simply change it?  Some of it was written strictly in reference to the other two types of automatic edit summary (before it was determined that all three would link there), so it does require an update.  I'll do this myself, but you're welcome to try your hand at improving the page.  —David Levy 15:25, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: How's this?  Acceptable?  —David Levy 15:56, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Better. I still think the link is a little pointless, though – Gurch 11:45, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

text: It doesn't make you seem incompetent to me... I am now happily not filling anything in when I redirect a page since I don't have to! A blank summary appears far more incompetent (and anyway, anyone who judges your value by your edit summaries is silly). If you really want a blank, put in a space (which works fine, see here). Snoutwood (talk) 19:01, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Annoying link 

message: Could someone change it to the following:
←Created page as redirect to $1
It would make a lot more sense.
Thanks! Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 09:32, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree - no objections in an hour or so and I'll make the change. ck lostsword•T•C 10:52, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Done ck lostsword•T•C 11:57, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Actually no, not done. You don't necessarily have to be creating the page; you can be redirecting an existing page. Probably not appopriate in that context, so more general term is more appropriate. See diff for an example. ck lostsword•T•C 12:05, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request 

message: I'm thinking it'd be appropriate to change the summary to: Redirected page to $1:  (the latter being an example, of course) ie. the MediaWiki software would detect redirect categorisation templates and include them in the summary. —James (Talk • Contribs) • 10:26pm • 12:26, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Would be good, but I doubt it is possible. We only have the $1 parameter to work with, which is the name of the page. Feel free to ask at WP:VPT for more input on this. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 15:57, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: That's incorrect. One also has $2 which is just not used by default. ($2 is the first bit of the text added to the page). Bawolff (talk) 16:31, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request