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