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From: "Steven Walling" steven.walling@gmail.com
How about the following?
Our current URL structure is extremely obtuse for non-technical users, and generally defies their expectations. To most people, en.wikipedia.org/Dogor even wikipedia.org/Dog should work just fine, not produce a 404.
Any collection of "most people" large enough to justify a change like this is, I assert, too technically unsophisticated to be attempting to construct URLs by hand (rather than by copy/pasta).
Do you propose to "fix" also the capitalization and spacing and URLescaping rules, which are much more complicated than that?
My considered reaction, now after several hours, is that this is fixing a problem which is not really broken for *anyone* except those who are OCD about hiding the "tech-y" look in the Location box. No offense. :-)
Cheers, -- jra