[Wikipedia-l] Re: yet another modest proposal to address

[Jan Hidders]

From: "Uri Yanover" <uriyan_subscribe at yahoo.com>
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> Unlike most others encyclopedias, Wikipedia is about
> ease of editing too, and editing is made harder by the
> abiguity in the convert-links-once solution. What I like
> in the idea of aliases is the total control of the author
> over what he links to. This won't be possible if Wiki
> software is the thing that decides about the conversion.

I would say that it is exactly the other way around. Tim's proposal is not
ambiguous and does not require any searching for terms in name spaces.
Your's, however, does.

-- Jan Hidders