On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 08:33:19AM -0700, Brion Vibber wrote:
Steve Bennett wrote:
Would this be an appropriate time for me to ask that if you go to a redirected article (say, George Walker Bush), then you would properly redirected to end up at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W_Bush, rather than http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Walker_Bush with content from the George W Bush page (and the words "redirected from").
I'm sure I had a good reason for requesting this, but it escapes me at the moment. If anyone knows...:)
We should have a FAQ for this. :)
/me digs up an old response
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-November/032619.html
I'm glad Steve did it. I was gonna do it, but -- and I thought you might actually be quoting me, til I looked -- I remembered already *having* done it once.
Steve, there's one in the archive where he explains it to me too, and (thanks, brion) in more detail than the one he links, IIRC. You might hunt that one down too... I wasn't entirely convinced, I don't think, but enough to shut me up at least. ;-)
Cheers, -- jra