Brion Vibber wrote:
So, since others protest and undelete the redirections, some asked if it would be possible to somehow catch mispellings, redirect the mispelled title to the right-spelled page, *and* dynamically display a message at the top of the article saying "you asked for "fachisme", this word does not exist, and is probably a mispelling of "fascisme".
It has in the past been suggested to have a special type of redirect for misspellings. These could have a "you're an illiterate idiot, from now on please type 'X'" message display when visited or searched, but be hidden from lists like the Allpages list or general search results.
I've never favoured automatic redirects for misspellings. A lot of them are really typos that can come from just hitting the key on the keyboard that's beside the one that you want. With common misspellings the sort of thing that Brion (oops I just had to go back and correct this from Brian) suggests has a lot of merit. A simple redirect presumes what a person wants, and the worst offenders will probably not even realize that they have been redirected.
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