On dim, 2003-02-09 at 13:47, Erik Moeller wrote:
Linkability is not an argument: People are already linking to this article using [[Pennsylvania German|Pennsylvania Dutch]], because obviously they do not want to use the corrupt form. Searchability is neither, since redirects show up in searches.
On the contrary, that shows that people *do* want to use the corrupt form, else they would be changing the links to [[Pennsylvania German]] and letting the technically correct form appear in the text.
Sorry, my example was incorrect. I meant [[Pennsylvania Dutch|Pennsylvania German]]. I always get confused with the direction -- that's why I think the syntax should be [[foo->bar]], not [[bar|foo]].
What it does show is that people have an aversion to linking to redirects.
Indeed.