[WikiEN-l] Tool announcement: Alternative names redirect

[David Gerard]

On 18/10/2007, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Someone raised the possibility of a bot that would go through a
> category (of biographies), read all articles, find '''bold''' parts,
> check if these exist as a page, and create a redirect if not.
> IMHO that should be a semi-automated process, not a fully automated
> one (creating redirects, that is). So, here's the tool:
> http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/name_redirects.php


Bug report! Put in Category:2007 deaths and you get the following:

Luigi_Filippo_D'Amico
    Luigi Filippo D'Amico : #REDIRECT [[Luigi Filippo D'Amico]] [do
it!] (12 pages link here)

Note: it's trying to redirect the article to itself. And when you hit
"do it!", it'll happily offer to wipe out the article with the
self-redirect ...


- d.