first i want to mention that i deeply appreciate your candid frank and friendly response it is refreshing to meet another wikipedian who doesn't see any need to bite someone's head off just because of a mistake whatever the size not that most wikipedians do that but cordiality is still nice yes i agree that i should resist the urge to correct other people's comments for me the ill will is a much bigger factor especially because i always try to be very careful to never change the meaning of a comment but it is still a risk as you say you're right the edits are old and the link eventually gets you there these are trivial changes but i find value in them it is true that the servers don't spend much time on redirects but i still would like all links going directly to the article they refer to not that that will ever happen to all of wp or even en wp but i can help actually i started fixing the redirecting links to that particular page because i wanted to make sure there were no double redirects which would be a problem and one worth fixing being a perfectionist i decided to go ahead and fix all the redirecting links instead of just the double redirects i want a nice clean whatlinkshere page with no indentions a large percentage of the redirects i am fixing are on main namespace pages not on talk pages and in those cases i also fix the visible spelling of the link when it is wrong since that should be right so i am doing what you were saying about fixing the article pages on talk pages and even in archives i have been fixing the appearance as well as the link target but i think i'll change my policy based on your well made point i'm only going to change the link target nothing about the appearance does that seem reasonable i am interested in awb but i haven't really looked into it much thanks for the tip my login problem is a toughie as far as i can tell what happens is this i click the register login link at the top right of the page i enter my username and password it says i have successfully logged in and even shows my username etc in the upper right but then as soon as i switch to another page i am logged out again i have checked my cookies and i am accepting cookies from all wikimedia projects that i'm working on it is possible it is a firewall problem but i have no idea how to fix that and it isn't just at the school where i work i can't login on computers in cybercafes in the area either maybe they all have the same type of firewall or something but i never had this problem until around december which was about the time our school changed its isp i don't know if that is related but if that is the case it seems strange that i can't even login when i'm off campus a bit of a puzzler isn't it btw if you don't mind me saying so i noticed that your contribs link in your signature doesn't go to your contributions page the link should read special contributions flex not special contributions flex better to catch it now than later talk