Yes often whole families of people get redirected to a biography of one
member of that family - automatic assumption that all redirects to an
article refer to the subject of the article is wrong. Alternate spellings
of names used to be in the persondata template, and that has now been
discontinued. I expect there will be some work to fix any lost alternate
spellings, but at least the alternate spellings will be visible for other
languages now, so it will be easy to reuse them for other languages if that
is considered desirable on a case by case basis (for example, for some
languages, only the last name was latinized)
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 9:07 AM, Ricordisamoa <ricordisamoa(a)openmailbox.org>
wrote:
I've seen countless inaccurate aliases
'inferred' from redirects by bots.
Let's not do that anymore.
Il 19/06/2015 08:57, Federico Leva (Nemo) ha scritto:
Do we have statistics on how many aliases we have
compared to the
redirects in Wikipedia and Wikiquote, especially for proper names? I'd
suppose that all redirects have been imported by now.
Aliases are a rather efficient way to store redirects for names which are
used in many forms. My only problem is that there is no way to add an alias
for languages, e.g. Latin names of learned people; but I hope search does
or will remedy by searching in all languages anyway.
Nemo
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