Muke Tever wrote:
Redirects are not an appropriate tool for spell checks.
Then what do you suggest would replace it, so the dictionary can be useful?
There are several reasons why redirects will not work. * At this moment in time, there are some 76.000 words. When you have some 760.000 words, you will have a need to add a redirect for every added word. I do not think that this is reasonable to ask from the contributors to Wiktionary. * When a word exists both as a capitalised word and as a noncapitalised word, you will not be directed from one to the other word. This works both ways. * In a paper dictionary you only find words in the proper capitalisation. * When the content of the Ultimate Wiktionary is to be used for spell checking, there will be software that will perform this functionality. The functionality that will allow for uppercase that is typically not correct will be in the software not in the content of the UW. Even so, certain words are only correct in a certain context, otherwise words like their and there can be used without it being recoginised. This is to say that there is more to spellchecking than what can be indicated by redirects in any Wiktionary.
Consequently, as far as I am concerned redirects are of no use whatsoever in any Wiktionary. Your arguments against having words in the proper case do not convince me, but you already knew that.
Thanks, GerardM