On Monday 22 December 2003 21:34, The Cunctator wrote:
Tarquin wrote
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.
This is a great idea... Something that will help make sense of the
"keep
all redirects" policy, which I've always had problems with.
Deprecated isn't a great idea; we want to restrict names to ones that don't have meaning only within a Wikipedia context; they should have meaning outside of Wikipedia. Such as
#REDIRECT (for alternate names of same topic) #MISSPELLING (for misspellings) #SUBTOPIC_OF (for redirects into broader topics, which I think is bad practice but other people like)
Add there #ALTSPELLING for alternative spellings. But wouldn't something like #REDIRECT [[Something]] (misspelling) be just as effective without any changes to the software?