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

[Tony Sidaway]

On 11/15/05, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>

Oh shit!  What did I just say?