User talk:TurtleWiki Bureaucrats

Global Redirects
Dmehus, I saw your note on my main loginwiki user page from when you made the interwiki redirect, is this non-interwiki redirect ok? I'm assuming this would redirect the visitor to my main's local user page on the wiki they access this one on, instead of redirecting them to meta. - TurtleWiki Bureaucrats via edit summary
 * While hard redirects are fine, in this case, this will only redirect users to User:Turtle84375 if the user visits *from* login.miraheze.org. If visiting from the local wiki, it won't even show up. Essentially, hard redirects for user pages are incompatible with global user pages. Thus, interwiki redirect is your best bet. - Dmehus via edit summary
 * Alternatively, I could import Soft redirect 2 or Soft redirect for you, or really any other alternate account userbox or notice template. - Dmehus via edit summary
 * Dmehus Moved the conversation here so I can use my main and so we don't have to use dummy edits, Interwiki redirect is fine. My assumption was that the redirect would copy over to the wiki my alt's userpage was accessed from, and then redirect locally. Guess it doesn't work that way? What I might do is just have the Interwiki redirect as the alt's global userpage, but for wikis that I contribute to like Meta, TurtleWiki, and the like, I might just manually create the page as a redirect. Sorry, I saw you already deleted the Meta userpage I marked for deletion, I might recreate that. Turtle84375 (talk) 01:23, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I don't believe it will, but we can try it, though I really also do not like hard interwiki redirects, as they are jarring to users who depart from a wiki they may not wish to depart. But I'm curious to see if it will work; I suspect not. Dmehus (talk) 01:32, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Turtle84375 So something I wasn't really expecting happened. It doesn't redirect to User:Turtle84375 when you view User:TurtleWiki Bureaucrats on Meta Wiki. Rather, it essentially transcludes at User:Turtle84375 at User:TurtleWiki Bureaucrats (which isn't that surprising, since that's essentially what GlobalUserPage is designed to do; I just didn't expect it to transclude a ). There are a couple issues with this, though. For one thing, it may be misleading to users as the displayed title text is User:TurtleWiki Bureaucrats, rather than User:Turtle84375, as to where they landed. This is my larger concern. Secondarily, because it's a second-level cross-wiki transclusion, there may be issues with users not seeing the current revision of User:Turtle84375 when visiting User:TurtleWiki Bureaucrats on a local or Meta Wiki, unless they   the page. Dmehus (talk) 01:44, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Dmehus Wow. Did not expect that. Yeah, I'm not going to do that. I think I'll just create the page (User:TurtleWiki Bureaucrats) locally (on Meta) as a redirect to my local main userpage. Interesting experiment results, though. Turtle84375 (talk) 01:49, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that sounds good, and just keep an interwiki redirect on wikis where you aren't really active or not active at all? Should I revert the experiment then? Dmehus (talk) 01:52, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Dmehus Yep, that's my plan. I've reverted the experiment (it doesn't let me do it with this account, I had to log into my alt). Turtle84375 (talk) 02:00, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Turtle84375 Regarding making TurtleWiki Bureaucrats a hard redirect to Turtle84375, I'm afraid that won't work as the latter is a global user page, which is treated as a locally non-existent page by MediaWiki software. Thus, the former reports as a broken redirect. Would you be okay if I deleted the former as such, to show your interwiki redirect? It shouldn't be a big deal as you don't really use the former account on Meta Wiki that much, I suspect. Thanks. Dmehus (talk) 14:15, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Regarding your other question, that's because your main account isn't yet  yet, but not a problem. Dmehus (talk) 14:18, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Turtle84375 Seeing no response to the above question, I've now gone ahead and locally deleted the userspace redirect in question as a broken redirect. To put your mind at rest, I do like the look of the interwiki redirect template for legitimate alternate account user pages. Dmehus (talk) 15:15, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Dmehus Apologies, I was sleeping. Well... that doesn't work? Yeah, I think just the Interwiki redirect will suffice. Sorry for all of the trouble! Turtle84375 (talk) 18:05, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it's because the target page is a global user page, so doesn't exist locally, and no problem. Thanks for understanding! :) Dmehus (talk) 18:09, 15 May 2021 (UTC)