[Wikipedia-l] Some thoughts

[Michel Clasquin]

On Monday 11 February 2002 14:24, Magnus Manske wrote:
> I noticed some things on wikipedia that IMHO should be avoided:
>
> * Creating half a dozen redirects to a single topic. A recent example of
> this might be the "ArXiv.org e-print archive", for which "Xxx.lanl.gov",
> "Www.arXiv.org", "ArXiv.org", and "ArXiv" redirects were created.
> There's no need to do this if the redirected titles aren't very common
> and mentioned in the article text anyway. The search function will find
> them without the redirect, and noone will go through the "All Pages"
> list if there's a search function.

I agree in principle, though there may be individual exceptions.  Do you 
know how many ways "Dostoyevsky" has been (mis)spelled in English over the 
last century or so? <g>

Lately I've made redirects just to give 0-byte stubs something to do. A 
deletion-mechanism as proposed in another post today should clear this up

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