[Wikipedia-l] An alternative idea to resolve the [[Middle Earth]] issue

[Uri Yanover]

Hi everyone again,

Having thought some more about how it is possible to make editing
[[Middle Earth]] easier once again, I've invented another solution 
to the problem: aliases.

Here's how it should work: we create a new Alias namespace. 
Inside it we'd have entries like [[Alias:Middle Earth]]. This page
would look like the following:
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Bilbo                        Middle Earth/Bilbo
Faramir                    Middle Earth/Faramir
Frodo                        Middle Earth/Frodo
Gandalf                    Middle Earth/Gandalf
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In general, the idea would be to match the ad-hoc "short" versions
of the page titles to the "long" version. Each page that that would 
want to use the alias, will have to include a directive, explicitly 
telling it to, e.g. #alias [[Middle Earth]].

This way we could both keep the longer (and the more informative) 
names like [[Middle Earth/Elrond]] and still make short linking
(like [[Elrond]]) possible from the pages that require this.

What do you think about it?

            Uri Yanover