It might be just me, but I don't think a movie or
book titled "Main Page"
would actually get sold to a editor or studio representative. Titles are key
to drawing in an audience, and when someone came to me with that as a title,
I'd ask them to change it.
Mgm
On 1/14/07, PeruvianLlama <peruvianllama(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Luna wrote:
Right. But since we're obviously going to
need such a redirect, what do
we
gain from moving Main Page? It's a lot of
work for...?
The idea would be that such a redirect would be temporary. The problem
of having Main_Page in the namespace wouldn't be solved overnight, or
even in a matter of days. But at least it would be solved a year (or 6
months, or whatever) down the road. That's a long time, but like I said,
I haven't seen anyone claiming that this is really any kind of an
immediate worry. It's just a good idea for the sake of long-term
consistency.
If we wait until the movie/book/etc. called "Main Page" is made and
suddenly wants to be in that article page, then we no longer have the
luxury of doing things at a reasonable pace. Then it really will be a
big issue to update all of our internal links, and to hope that external
links update quickly enough. If we're proactive about this, we might be
saving ourselves a headache. At worst, like I said, we're at least being
consistent.
MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
And it still doesn't open up the page for any
potential films, books or
articles on anything else, because leaving a redirect is what we need to
not
kill incoming links from outside of Wikipedia.
Mgm
Not immediately no, but it opens up the possibility of doing so in the
future. After a year we can drop the redirect, since most/all of the
external links will have updated. Those that haven't, well, a broken
link or three isn't going to bring either Wikipedia or the internet at
large to its knees. The reason I posted this idea was because the main
three objections to moving appeared to be:
1) It will be too big a strain on the servers to move such a big page
2) It will be too much of a hassle to update internal links
3) It will be too much of a hassle to update external links
I think that if it came to it, we could enlist the help of devs or other
technical wizardry to eliminate the hurdles of objection #1. Objection
#2 has already been rebutted. I was taking aim at objection #3.
There isn't any wildly important reason to move Main_Page somewhere
else, and I say again, it certainly isn't a terribly time-sensitive
issue. But on the other hand, there don't seem to be any wildly
important reasons to _not_ move Main_Page, other than things being too
much of a hassle.
Cheers,
- PeruvianLlama
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