Wow, everyone, calm down. Don't get so worked up over something that is, at best, a very minor nitpick.
Agge's not lying, I'm pretty sure that at some point in the past, I've publicly stated a preference for links such as [[Nimble Mynx Badge|Nimble Mynx]] over just [[Nimble Mynx]], and I can tell you with absolute certainty that that is how I always try to link to articles. I prefer it that way because I don't like the little "Redirected from ..." line when you follow a link, and so that when you do follow a link, you'll get a very visible indicator of what we consider the "master" article.
Also, when people copy-and-paste the URL for articles out of the wiki in other places (such as the official forums), I preferred people going directly to the master article so that anyone who follows the external link wouldn't get the "Redirected from ..." line.
It was purely an aesthetic thing. I never intended for it to mean that people can't link to redirects, just that I personally preferred for links to go to the original article. I'd much rather have someone write or edit an article with links to redirects in it than to not write or edit an article at all. Likewise, if an editor converts a link to a redirect to a link directly to the main article, don't take it personally. You weren't wrong or anything, it's just to make navigation a little cleaner. If you really don't want to bother with it and don't care one way about linking to redirects or not linking to redirects, by all means, do whatever makes you happy and efficient!