Delirium wrote:
That sounds like an argument for making "hard" links where both titles are equally authoritative---i.e. "traveling" and "travelling" are both top-level titles, but in fact are the same page.
The current solution, making them different pages, is IMO much worse than favoring one or the other, since it requires people to basically copy/paste definitions across multiple pages, and make sure changes stay in sync. Look, for example, at "traveling" versus "travelling", which currently actually have wildly different content despite being the same word with a minor variation in spelling (this was the first example I checked).
I do wonder why they don't simply redirect both to [[traveling, travelling]]. Of course, I'm not an active wiktionarian, so I wouldn't know. It sounds so obvious that it's probably a perennial proposal.