-----Original Message----- From: wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l- bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Lih Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 9:25 AM To: 'English Wikipedia' Subject: RE: [WikiEN-l] Redirects
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)
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?
From: Nikola Smolenski on Tuesday, December 23, 2003 12:59 AM On Monday 22 December 2003 21:34, The Cunctator wrote:
#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?
Yup!
Nikola Smolenski wrote:
Add there #ALTSPELLING for alternative spellings. But wouldn't something like #REDIRECT [[Something]] (misspelling) be just as effective without any changes to the software?
Yes. One neat thing to come out of this would that we'd be able to check misspelling redirects for links.
The Cunctator writes:
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.
One would want to keep such a 'deprecated' link only if it was linked-to from outside pages. I can see us occasionally wanting to keep a well-known title even if it would otherwise be dropped.
On the other hand, I'm not sure this actually happens much in the real world.
-Matt (User:Morven)