Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
The reason for this is that like in a paper
dictionaray we only want
correct
spellings and an incorrect spelling should result in a "not found"
message.
In the US, and probably in other places where spelling is not phonetic,
one of the most common uses for a dictionary (if not the most common)
is to find what the correct spelling of a word is. If there is not
"spell check" in the form of redirects or see-unders, then the
Wiktionary
is useless for this.
Hoi,
When a word is correctly spelled in several ways, every alternative is
as good as the other and deserve its own article. It should therefore
be abundantly clear that they are correct. As a consequence of the
massive rename action many thousands of redirects have been created
words like "Lightbulb" are now correct because there is a redirect ??
So the spelling of a sentence like: "A Lightbulb Is Typically Found In
A Lamp." is apparantly correct?? I think not.
Redirects are not an appropriate tool for spell checks.