delirium@rufus.d2g.com wrote:
I used to maintain the point of view that having redirects all over the place (as long as they always go to the intended article) can never do any harm, and in fact they keep the pages accessible under old links (i.e. deleting them would break links elsewhere on the Internet).
Would it be possible to implement some sort of mechanism whereby a redirect can be flagged as merely a convenience or technological measure, not a legitimate alternate article title?
A *very long time ago* I suggested we implement sysnonyms of the REDIRECT keyword, that would indicate the type: #MISSPELLING #DEPRECATED for subpages, etc and plain old #REDIRECT would correspond to a "see also" entry.