Toby Bartels wrote:
Brion VIBBER wrote in part:
Other things: currently the list includes redirects. Some redirects should definitely stay -- alternate names that would not appear near each other, for instance. Others (spelling, caps variations) could maybe be dropped, but that's harder to do consistently. Or more simply, we could just italicize redirects or something.
I favour using #DEPRECATED in addition to #REDIRECT. This would be used for misspellings, CamelCase, etc, while #REDIRECT would be kept for alternate titles that might well appear in page text but for whatever reason (naming conventions, arbitrary choices) aren't the page title.
For the most part, these would behave the same, but we can distinguish them in indexes of this sort. We can also do a special maintenance search for links to #DEPRECATED pages, since these will usually (not quite always, however) be a mistake in the page's text. To begin with, there will be no #DEPRECATED pages, but whenever we notice (say) CamelCase in the Allpages list, then we know that there's a #REDIRECT to change to #DEPRECATED.
I see this as the sort of thing that a few people will use, but most of us will ignore. People would prefer not to cope with these subtle distinctions.
It could be used on a page that's a candidate for deletion, but which has been kept to avoid breaking the links in somebody's browser. A #DEPRECATED page could be deleted if it has not reached a predetermined level of accesses over a specified period of time.
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