GerardM <gerard.meijssen(a)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!
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