LittleDan wrote:
I think all of those redirect articles are just unnecessary. There is already (I think) a policy to use the technical terms for everything, or at least the semi-technical terms, so those slang expressions don't fit, and the links (as well as the article text itself) should reflect this. If somebody (for some reason) searches for 'blow job' and doesn't get any title results, he can just scroll down a little and see the article on 'oral sex' (this isn't an issue yet but I know someone will bring it up). If someone links to 'blow job' and creates a page, someone should quickly delete the page and change the link to [[oral sex]].
Wouldn't it be easier to redirect [[Blow job]] to [[Oral sex]] so that we'll never need to delete such a page? This is standard Wikipedia practice in other areas; we shouldn't make exceptions for sex.
This really shouldn't be an issue. Just imagine a 7-year-old looking for an article on blowing bubbles, so she searches for "bubble blow" and gets an article on oral sex in the title search.
She won't. Check it out for yourself! She *will* get it in the article search, but deleting [[Blow job]] won't change that.
-- Toby