[Wikipedia-l] Re: Creating redirects for spelling mistakes

Toby Bartels toby+wikipedia-l at math.ucr.edu
Sun Jul 21 01:34:47 UTC 2002


Stephen Gilbert wrote:

>I only redirect common misspellings. In this case, I
>would redirect "Colombus" and ignore "Idendity".

[[Colombus]] is arguably a variant spelling, not a misspelling.
But [[Idendity]] certainly shouldn't redirect to [[Identity]],
since [[Identity]] doesn't even exist!!!


-- Toby



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