Yes, but only one or two are actually used in ENglish (Wotan and Odin, I
guess). The others could be mentioned within the text of the actual article,
so that the search function will find them. Redirects are only good if they
are used in other articles.
-----Original Message-----
From: wikipedia-l-admin(a)nupedia.com
[mailto:wikipedia-l-admin@nupedia.com]On Behalf Of Steve Callaway
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 8:18 PM
To: wikipedia-l(a)nupedia.com
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Some thoughts
Also, this is a vexed issue with a number of mythologies, particularly
Celtic and Norse where many different spellings refer to the same
topic e.g.
Odin, Wotan, Woden, Odd, Od, Odinn, etc, etc, etc... Without multiple
redirects we would probably end up with a topic for each of them:
not good,
not good at all...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michel Clasquin" <clasqm(a)mweb.co.za>
To: <wikipedia-l(a)nupedia.com>om>; "Magnus Manske"
<Magnus.Manske(a)epost.de>de>;
"Wikipedia-L@Nupedia. Com" <wikipedia-l(a)nupedia.com>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 7:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Some thoughts
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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