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From: wikien-l-bounces(a)Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-
bounces(a)Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Lih
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 9:25 AM
To: 'English Wikipedia'
Subject: RE: [WikiEN-l] Redirects
Tarquin wrote
A *very long time ago* I suggested we implement
sysnonyms of the
REDIRECT keyword, that would indicate the type:
#MISSPELLING
#DEPRECATED for subpages, etc
and plain old #REDIRECT would correspond to a "see also" entry.
This is a great idea... Something that will help make sense of the
"keep
all redirects" policy, which I've always had
problems with.
Deprecated isn't a great idea; we want to restrict names to ones that
don't have meaning only within a Wikipedia context; they should have
meaning outside of Wikipedia. Such as
#REDIRECT (for alternate names of same topic)
#MISSPELLING (for misspellings)
#SUBTOPIC_OF (for redirects into broader topics, which I think is bad
practice but other people like)