On 6/15/06, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
The current solution, making them different pages, is IMO much worse than favoring one or the other, since it requires people to basically copy/paste definitions across multiple pages, and make sure changes stay in sync. Look, for example, at "traveling" versus "travelling", which currently actually have wildly different content despite being the same word with a minor variation in spelling (this was the first example I checked).
This whole thing seems silly, bordering on extremely silly. Should Wikipedia have separate articles for petrol and gasoline?
Possible solution (if it's absolutely critical that color and colour both have top level non-redirected articles): Put all the content in {{colr}} and transclude it. If you include a heading near the top and people use section editing, they won't even know!
Steve