Timwi wrote:
Another major disadvantage I thought of just now is
that it poisons our
namespace. Suppose some silly company makes some sort of product and (to
be cool) calls it "fr:ea:ky". How would we name our article on it? It's
only a matter of time until this will be an actual problem.
This is a non-starter; you can't link to such titles within the wiki,
because they are interwiki links. A manually constructed URL used to
just give an 'Illegal title' error, except where we had a special-case
on
www.wikipedia.org to do outgoing redirects.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)