Thread:Undoniel/@comment-3406131-20170302214506/@comment-10473115-20170310182149

James Smith redirect to James Smith (Earth-616) isn't useless. So we should not ban those with a policy.
 * It allows easier linking without a pipe.
 * Redirect page could contain important page history.
 * It could be linked from outside of the site.
 * It helps searching and possibly prevents creating an article with wrong name.

I think that we are going in circles in the discussion. We disagree with the purpose of a template. I don't think that it should be allowed to create a single unwanted link because editors can't fix it. That's against the whole nature of wiki editing.

We also disagree on the basis on linking. If we would follow your proposition on James Howlett (Earth-616), it would create a same link on the title plus on first two infobox fields. One of them would confusingly hidden behind a redirect. If you can't see any redundancy with that, there's no point continuing the discussion to find a compromise.