Talk:Eric Larson

Redirection

The following was copied from my and User:Anonymous Cow's userpages. —Lowellian (talk) July 2, 2005 04:48 (UTC)

Please use "What links here" before redirecting :)

I came across your redirect of the name Eric Larson. You redirected that name on February 26th to the comic book artist, Erik Larson. Why am I bringing this up? There is a notable person named Eric Larson that worked for the Disney Animation studios in the early 20th century. They're two different people. See Disney's Nine Old Men. --Anonymous Cow 18:10, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I do a TON of work on redirects and thus do not always check "What links here" when no article exists yet on a subject. Even if I had, though, I would still at the time have made the redirect, with my reasoning being as follows:

At the time I made the redirect, no Eric Larson article existed. So I redirected to Erik Larson, because the comic book artist's name is commonly misspelled as Erik. That was the correct decision at the time. I do not know anything about the Disney animator and cannot write an article about him. Once someone knowledgeable about Eric Larson (such as you) came along, you were able to change that redirect into an article, and not only that, but the redirect alerted you to another person with a very similar name and thus alerted to the need for a disambig message at the top of the article, which you nicely added. So, see, the redirect was good in the long run.

Anyway, thanks for writing up the article. Keep contributing to Wikipedia!

—Lowellian (talk) 23:38, Mar 20, 2005 (UTC)