At 10:53 AM 7/20/02 +0100, tarquin wrote:
Should we really be setting up redirect pages for every mis-spelling we see in Unsuccessful Searches, eg Idendity http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Idendity, Colombus http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Colombus etc.
I'm inclined to say Wikipedia Is Not a Spellchecker.
Well being a serious misspeller I am one of the offenders here. The way it goes is you first misspell the link then you write a long article on the misspelled page, then discover an article spelled right, or finally discover the misspelling, see where I'm going...
Really need to delete the misspelled page but having saved it you end up redirecting it.
Other than the really common misspellings or cases like [[color]] [[colour]] I think all such pages should be deleted.
Fred Bauder