On 10/24/07, Eugene van der Pijll <eugene(a)vanderpijll.nl> wrote:
230 #REDIRECT [[List of Hobbits]]
Most of these are lists, with redirects from the individual entries.
These wouldn't benefit much from the new syntax. More interesting are
[[Benny Benassi]] (191 redirects) and [[Tsentralny District]] (167
redirects).
This is an interesting question. At first glance, you would think "the
redirects to List of Hobbits were made when someone tried to create a new
article, Esmeralda Brandybuck and it got merged back into the list". No one
would set out to create that many redirects, right?
But then, if it were easy to do, it would be pretty tempting to set up an
alias for every entry on the list. Why not? Just as the tool that inspired
this
discussion looks for bolded text, it would be tempting to set up a
template that did something like:
#ALIASES {{{1}}}'''{{{1}}}'''
For each item in the list. So if someone searched for "Filibert Bolger",
they would be guaranteed to end up on the most definitive page. Sure, there
is no information on Filibert Bolger. But it *is* the most definitive page,
and anyone wishing to add information about hem/her should do it there, and
not create some new [[Filibert Bolger]].
Steve