[Wikipedia-l] Fwd: Re: Wikipedia/OneLook

[Brion VIBBER]

The Cunctator wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 23:01, koyaanisqatsi at nupedia.com wrote:
>>Also, he included redirects (e.g. [[Film Noir]]).  Should we ask that
 >>those be excluded, or is it that pressing an issue?
> 
> We want him to include redirects. Ideally his software would know that
> they're redirects, but we want the result to come up if someone searches
> for an entry like "film noir".

I agree that redirects should be listed; many redirects exist because 
they are alternate titles, alternate phrasings, alternate spellings, 
etc. A perfectly valid search might pick one up but not another.

The particular case of [[Film Noir]] (a redirect to [[Film noir]]) is 
perhaps less important if the search is case-insensitive, but I see 
little point to excising it. You click it, you get the right article, no?

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)