Would this be an appropriate time for me to ask that if you go to a redirected article (say, George Walker Bush), then you would properly redirected to end up at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W_Bush, rather than http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Walker_Bush with content from the George W Bush page (and the words "redirected from").
I'm sure I had a good reason for requesting this, but it escapes me at the moment. If anyone knows...:)
Steve
On 8/11/06, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
I nixed that because then you've got scary unstable URLs being linked to. The URL system may change, potentially dramatically so, and they'll no longer work. (But I'm a bit of a stickler about stable URLs on articles.)
The PHP manual example is particularly dangerous because they don't even issue an HTTP redirect, it just spits the content right back. Bad for caching and for linking.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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