GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, I have made my point, again, clear on the meta page.
In the bit about handling redirects you say that
As redirects have multiple origins, it cannot be assumed that they have a single origin.
by which you seem to argue that it is impossible that redirects can be handled by a bot at all. But en.wikipedia has had templates like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:R_from_other_capitalisation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:R_from_misspelling for years, which do exactly this kind of thing: flag redirects for categorization, etc., in ways which it is entirely feasible that a bot could pick up on. A redirect with one flag could be treated in one way, while another flag may be treated in another way; and there does not have to be any action taken in treating untagged redirects.
*Muke!