MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
Chris Luer made an excellent point. I would go with whatever article was created first in Wikipedia though unless there's massive amounts of links pointing to the other article (prior to this discussion) we might consider changing that.
I don't think we should pay much attention to the link count. Way back in the mists of ancient history before the Manual of Style had taken its present form, I split up the article [[Moon]] into [[Natural satellite]] and [[Luna]] making [[Moon]] into a disambiguation page (Wikipedia hadn't invented parenthesese yet :), and like the obsessive busy beaver I am I went around changing every link to "Moon" into [[Luna|Moon]]. Needless to say, Earth's moon later got moved back to "Moon". But as a result, hundreds and hundreds of articles linked to it via the "Luna" redirect whereas only a handful of recent articles linked via Moon.
Luna is itself now a disambiguation page, so this example's long gone, but the basic idea remains. I don't think that the link count within Wikipedia is all that meaningful, and redirects are perfectly adequate.