[WikiEN-l] Re: weird Redirects -- Probably being stupid

[Mirko Thiessen]

Am 17.01.03 13:00:06 schrieb wikien-l-request at wikipedia.org:
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>take a look at this page:
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>http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%E9gion_d%27honneur
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>In what way is the article name different from the redirect?
>All I can see is that one has a "smart quote"-style apostrophe.
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>but the URL of the redirect page seems the same:
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>http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=L%E9gion_d%27honneur&redirect=no
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I am responsible for that strange redirect. Yesterday I realised, that the link pointing from 
the 1802 article did not find its target, although it appeared to be the same spelling. So I 
just copied and pasted the spelling of the existing article to the new redirect page, 
although I didn't see the difference between the spellings.

Many people use the accent sign, when an apostrophe should be used. Perhaps this was 
the reason for the failing redirect.


Regards,

Mirko (AKA Cordyph)

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