[Wikipedia-l] Some thoughts

[Steve Callaway]

Yes, but then you get Swedes contributing, Icelanders, Norwegians, Finns,
Estonians, etc, etc, all creating new articles. Much better to basket them
all together, and get the redirects working for you.

In English we certainly recognise: Odin, Od (appears in a number of
mediaeval folk tales), Wotan, Woden, and probably a few more.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Magnus Manske" <Magnus.Manske at epost.de>
To: <wikipedia-l at nupedia.com>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 7:25 PM
Subject: RE: [Wikipedia-l] Some thoughts


> 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 at nupedia.com
> > [mailto:wikipedia-l-admin at nupedia.com]On Behalf Of Steve Callaway
> > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 8:18 PM
> > To: wikipedia-l at 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 at mweb.co.za>
> > To: <wikipedia-l at nupedia.com>; "Magnus Manske" <Magnus.Manske at epost.de>;
> > "Wikipedia-L at Nupedia. Com" <wikipedia-l at 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
> > >
> > > --
> > > Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa)
> > > clasqm at mweb.co.za/unisa.ac.za   http://www.geocities.com/clasqm
> > > This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC
> > >
> > > ...hey, at least a wild goose chase gives you some exercise-Neal
> > Stephenson
> > >
> > >
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