[Wikipedia-l] Creating redirects for spelling mistakes

[Stephen Gilbert]

--- tarquin <tarquin at planetunreal.com> wrote:
> Should we really be setting up redirect pages for
> every mis-spelling we 
> see in Unsuccessful Searches, eg Idendity 
> <http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Idendity>, Colombus 
> <http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Colombus> etc.
>
> I'm inclined to say Wikipedia Is Not a Spellchecker.

I only redirect common misspellings. In this case, I
would redirect "Colombus" and ignore "Idendity".

-- Stephen Gilbert

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