[Wikipedia-l] question(s) about article headers...

[Brion L. VIBBER]

On mer, 2002-04-10 at 16:56, Karen AKA Kajikit wrote:
> The search engine on the wikipedia rejects punctuation, so does that
> mean that for best search results we should leave it out of entry
> titles?
>
> eg. There was no entry for 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'
> until I made one, but there was an entry already there for 'Harry Potter
> and the Philosophers Stone' without the [correct] apostrophe. Which one
> should be the main article and which one should be the redirect?

You should consider that a temporary bug in the search engine; hopefully
the articles will remain long after the bugs are gone... But
punctuationless redirects won't hurt anything, and can help with the
buggy search in the meantime.

Personally, I would prefer the "most correct" title to be attached to
the actual article; that generally means full names, apostrophes,
hypens, and diacritics (so far as Latin-1 allows). Others may disagree,
though, particularly on diacritics.

As far as the subpage questions, Jimbo said pretty much what I was going
to say.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)