User talk:Evandro Davis

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[edit] Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Evandro Davis, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 16:06, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Also, I noticed from your help desk post that you seem to be fluent in Portuguese. Would you be interested in helping translate articles between the English Wikipedia and the Portuguese Wikipedia? Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 16:14, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Dubai cup redirect

Hi Evandro Davis, two three administrators have declined to speedy delete the redirect you created at Dubai cup. I can see that the capitalization is not strictly correct, but there are incoming links to that name, and it is quite likely that someone would type "Dubai cup" exactly like that and would expect to be redirected to the correct article. There's a common saying on Wikipedia that "redirects are cheap", that is they take up little space on the server and can be useful if people make typos when searching. As a redirect from Dubai Cup has already been created, I see no problem with allowing both redirects to co-exist. --Canley (talk) 01:21, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Alright, I've reluctantly deleted it as a creator request (G7), but another editor may very well recreate it. Can you please correct or remove the links from Dubai Challenge Cup 2007 and Dubai Challenge Cup 2008 which point to that exact page? --Canley (talk) 02:33, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Why are you insistent that Dubai Challenge Cup should have a "see also" link to Dubai Cup, which redirects to Mohammed bin Rashid International Football Championship, instead of linking directly to Mohammed bin Rashid International Football Championship? In general, it's poor practice to use a redirect deliberately. --Orlady (talk) 02:42, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

I understand the need for these two articles to link to one another. However, when linking to Mohammed bin Rashid International Football Championship (apparently, the official name of the tournament), why do you want the link name to be "Dubai Cup"? Why do you not want the link name to be "Mohammed bin Rashid International Football Championship"?--Orlady (talk) 02:05, 16 January 2008 (UTC)