[Wikipedia-l] Re: Creating redirects for spelling mistakes

[Ray Saintonge]

Pierre Abbat wrote:

>"Colombus" could just as easily be a typo for "Colobus". I think we shouldn't 
>be making disambigs for typos, so the page should be deleted.
>
This example illustrates that redirecting typos can easily become monkey 
business.  

Trying to second guess somebody else's errors means jumping to often 
erroneous conclusions.  I've already complained about somebody 
redirecting "pogram" to "program".  Who's to say that the searcher 
wasn't looking for "pogrom"?  To me "pogrom" is a far more likely 
subject for an encyclopaedia article than such a broadly generic term as 
"program".

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