On 10/24/07, Eugene van der Pijll eugene@vanderpijll.nl wrote:
230 #REDIRECT [[List of Hobbits]]Most of these are lists, with redirects from the individual entries. These wouldn't benefit much from the new syntax. More interesting are [[Benny Benassi]] (191 redirects) and [[Tsentralny District]] (167 redirects).
This is an interesting question. At first glance, you would think "the redirects to List of Hobbits were made when someone tried to create a new article, Esmeralda Brandybuck and it got merged back into the list". No one would set out to create that many redirects, right?
But then, if it were easy to do, it would be pretty tempting to set up an alias for every entry on the list. Why not? Just as the tool that inspired this discussion looks for bolded text, it would be tempting to set up a template that did something like:
#ALIASES {{{1}}}'''{{{1}}}'''
For each item in the list. So if someone searched for "Filibert Bolger", they would be guaranteed to end up on the most definitive page. Sure, there is no information on Filibert Bolger. But it *is* the most definitive page, and anyone wishing to add information about hem/her should do it there, and not create some new [[Filibert Bolger]].
Steve