It might be just me, but I don't think a movie or book titled "Main Page" would actually get sold to a editor or studio representative. Titles are key to drawing in an audience, and when someone came to me with that as a title, I'd ask them to change it.
Mgm
On 1/14/07, PeruvianLlama peruvianllama@gmail.com wrote:
Luna wrote:
Right. But since we're obviously going to need such a redirect, what do
we
gain from moving Main Page? It's a lot of work for...?
The idea would be that such a redirect would be temporary. The problem of having Main_Page in the namespace wouldn't be solved overnight, or even in a matter of days. But at least it would be solved a year (or 6 months, or whatever) down the road. That's a long time, but like I said, I haven't seen anyone claiming that this is really any kind of an immediate worry. It's just a good idea for the sake of long-term consistency.
If we wait until the movie/book/etc. called "Main Page" is made and suddenly wants to be in that article page, then we no longer have the luxury of doing things at a reasonable pace. Then it really will be a big issue to update all of our internal links, and to hope that external links update quickly enough. If we're proactive about this, we might be saving ourselves a headache. At worst, like I said, we're at least being consistent.
MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
And it still doesn't open up the page for any potential films, books or articles on anything else, because leaving a redirect is what we need to
not
kill incoming links from outside of Wikipedia. Mgm
Not immediately no, but it opens up the possibility of doing so in the future. After a year we can drop the redirect, since most/all of the external links will have updated. Those that haven't, well, a broken link or three isn't going to bring either Wikipedia or the internet at large to its knees. The reason I posted this idea was because the main three objections to moving appeared to be:
- It will be too big a strain on the servers to move such a big page
- It will be too much of a hassle to update internal links
- It will be too much of a hassle to update external links
I think that if it came to it, we could enlist the help of devs or other technical wizardry to eliminate the hurdles of objection #1. Objection #2 has already been rebutted. I was taking aim at objection #3.
There isn't any wildly important reason to move Main_Page somewhere else, and I say again, it certainly isn't a terribly time-sensitive issue. But on the other hand, there don't seem to be any wildly important reasons to _not_ move Main_Page, other than things being too much of a hassle.
Cheers,
- PeruvianLlama
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