[WikiEN-l] Synonymous article ID replacing redirects

[Sam Korn]

On 11/15/05, jkelly at fas.harvard.edu <jkelly at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
>   Perhaps I am missing something, but wouldn't organizing articles in this
> fashion simply push the argument back upon every article that links to the one
> with the contentious name?
>
>   Right now we have a situation in which these debates can be more-or-less
> solved by knowing what the subject's "Wikipedia article name" is, and informing
> people to not link through a redirect.  If Ivory Coast/Cote d'Ivoire become
> equivalent at the backend level, won't the same argument then erupt in the
> "List of African countries" article, the "List of UN members" article, and the
> "List of places with Ivory in their name" article?

Purely theoretically (I don't think such a situation will arise), but
that could easily be resolved with the use of a solidus.  As for which
comes first... does anyone *really* care that much?  If you do, I
think you have your priorities mixed up.

Sam