On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 9:05 PM, DanTMan dan_the_man@telus.net wrote:
It's quite possible for someone to click a redlink after a page has already been created. And when someone clicks a redlink to create a page, they are expecting to create that page, not another. So perhaps when coming from a redlink we should add in an extra message if the page already exists saying something like "A page with this title has recently been created. It's likely that you want to edit that page rather than create a new one. Do you wish to switch to editing that page instead of creating a new one under a different title?" And give them a link to switch to that page's edit mode instead.
Someone clicking a red link wants to either
1) read the page (not knowing it doesn't exist), or
2) create the page (thinking it doesn't exist).
In case 1 the best behavior would be to redirect the user to the page as though it were a blue link. In case 2 the best behavior is unclear, since the user's expectations are wrong, and so actually if we do any special-casing, it may as well be a 301 redirect to the existing page as though it were a blue link. But I wouldn't waste too many brain cells on this, since it's a fairly uncommon scenario.