Forum:CT Archive/Alternate capitalization redirects

An issue has come up with the creation and maintenance of redirects that point to an identical title that differs only in case (e.g. the currently-deleted Targeting Computer, which sparked this CT, that pointed to Targeting computer). These will henceforth be known as "alt-cap redirects" to save typing.

Cav has argued that redirects like Targeting Computer can exist because:
 * they are literally written that way, with the alternate capitalization, in official sources
 * Monobook search is case-sensitive.

I argue that:
 * the search is only case-sensitive for him because he has, and insists on maintaining, outdated code in his monobook.js file that was developed as a hack to bypass a Wikia "feature" that was discontinued ages ago, and for which the associated gadget in preferences was deleted a long time ago
 * redirects do not exist to blindly document everything that official sources use, but rather exist solely as search aids, and that the proper place for documenting alt-caps is in the article proper
 * alt-cap redirects actively foul up Wikia's link suggestion feature, because that feature prefers capitalized titles and will show those exclusively when multiple case versions exist, often to the point of offering only the capitalized redirect and not the actual article title that is in lowercase, and therefore these redirects are clearly harmful
 * in the presence of an unrebutted argument that alt-cap redirects are harmful, I hold that they should not exist without a strong justification for keeping them, and as both of Cav's arguments have been rebutted by me, no such justification exists, and therefore all such redirects should be deleted and no further such redirects should be created.

I therefore leave it to a vote.

Prohibit all alt-cap redirects

 * 1) As proposer. &mdash;MJ&mdash; Holocomm 00:46, December 22, 2014 (UTC)

Discussion
I purposely do not propose a specific policy addition. The closing admin can feel free to add a note where he or she sees fit, or this decision can simply live as an archived CT thread. &mdash;MJ&mdash; Holocomm 00:46, December 22, 2014 (UTC)