On mer, 2002-04-10 at 16:56, Karen AKA Kajikit wrote:
The search engine on the wikipedia rejects punctuation, so does that mean that for best search results we should leave it out of entry titles?
eg. There was no entry for 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' until I made one, but there was an entry already there for 'Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone' without the [correct] apostrophe. Which one should be the main article and which one should be the redirect?
You should consider that a temporary bug in the search engine; hopefully the articles will remain long after the bugs are gone... But punctuationless redirects won't hurt anything, and can help with the buggy search in the meantime.
Personally, I would prefer the "most correct" title to be attached to the actual article; that generally means full names, apostrophes, hypens, and diacritics (so far as Latin-1 allows). Others may disagree, though, particularly on diacritics.
As far as the subpage questions, Jimbo said pretty much what I was going to say.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)