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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