Memory Alpha:Projects/Unnamed redirect project

Over time, MA has built up a large number of lists of unnamed individuals. These pages are linked using anchor tags, but the "incoming links/what links here" shows only the page linking, not the target to which it links. This makes things difficult when individuals are merged (when identified as the same individual), or moved to a new location.

As such, an undertaking began to individualize incoming links using redirects to point to the anchors. For this, anchor tags are added to each heading using a three digit number (leading zeroes, such as '001', '010', '122', etc). Redirects are created for these and categorized into the appropriate tree. Then all incoming links to individuals are converted to use these redirects (ie, images, episode credits, actor pages, etc).

At times, entire groups can be identified with a single anchor/redirect, but smaller groups should use individual links, especially if any of those individuals had more detailed activity within an episode.

Ideally, each "individual"-redirect should, at minimum, be linked to the actor, a screencap, episode of appearance, and a performers by season page.

Example as seen from what links here:

Individuals

From various unnamed individuals subcategories:

Inhabitant/personnel lists

Species lists

Ships, vessels, and craft

From various unnamed spacecraft subcategories: