[WikiEN-l] Redirects

[Nikola Smolenski]

On Monday 22 December 2003 21:34, The Cunctator wrote:
> > Tarquin wrote
> >
> > >A *very long time ago* I suggested we implement sysnonyms of the
> > >REDIRECT keyword, that would indicate the type:
> > >#MISSPELLING
> > >#DEPRECATED for subpages, etc
> > >and plain old #REDIRECT would correspond to a "see also" entry.
> >
> > This is a great idea... Something that will help make sense of the
>
> "keep
>
> > all redirects" policy, which I've always had problems with.
>
> Deprecated isn't a great idea; we want to restrict names to ones that
> don't have meaning only within a Wikipedia context; they should have
> meaning outside of Wikipedia. Such as
>
> #REDIRECT (for alternate names of same topic)
> #MISSPELLING (for misspellings)
> #SUBTOPIC_OF (for redirects into broader topics, which I think is bad
> practice but other people like)

Add there #ALTSPELLING for alternative spellings. But wouldn't something like
#REDIRECT [[Something]] (misspelling)
be just as effective without any changes to the software?