[WikiEN-l] Tower of Babel - Voting remains stupid as well as evil.

[David Gerard]

Tony Sidaway wrote:

[re: pissfight over [[Ivory Coast]] vs [[Cote d'Ivoire]] on en:]

>It occurs to me that these nomenclature problems could be solved at
>software level by permitting the creation of synonyms, rather than
>redirects.
>There's no reason why there should be two or more separate articles,
>with people squabbling about which one should be the main article and
>which the redirect, if both exist and have precisely the same article
>id.  The synonym creation would also have to operate for the
>corresponding talk namespace.


Get coding :-D

(This is a really nice idea, IMO, and would save much of the forests
of redirects and annoyance of double redirects.)


- d.