On 10/25/07, Simetrical Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
I was assuming nesting would be allowed (although it might quickly run into alias number limits, of course). Iteration is the term my formal languages book uses for the * operator, indicating "repeat the preceding item zero or more times". Next time I'll just say "the * operator" instead of trying to be fancy. :)
Heh, ok.
Of course, the correct way to fix this is to actually implement real
merging. For now, why don't people just do a history merge, by deleting one page, moving another on top of it, and undeleting? Is that viewed as too confusing in terms of the history display?
That requires admin rights, which most people don't have - whereas replacing a page with a redirect can be done by anyone. It's also presumably virtually impossible to undo.
As I said, a special page.
Perhaps another tab, "aliases"? We should get away from calling them "redirects" in any case.
Steve
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