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)
Add there #ALTSPELLING for alternative spellings. But wouldn't something like
#REDIRECT [[Something]] (misspelling)
be just as effective without any changes to the software?