I think some way of "compiling" redirects from some kind of
directive in the main article is a very good and important idea.
Especially for Wiktionary where most words have one or many
inflected forms.
Some way to handle conflicts would obviously be necessary.
Perhaps a way to warn that those need to be handled the old
way, perhaps automatically generated disambiguation pages.
Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail)
On 8/30/05, Evan Martin <evanm(a)google.com> wrote:
On 8/30/05, Mark Williamson <node.ue(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
"In most languages" is not true.
The majority of the world's languages do not have gender.
[...]
So creating redirects for different forms of a word is not a concern
for "most" languages.
Quibbles aside, synonymous terms like "car" and "automobile" occur
in
all languages. (Except maybe conlangs, I suppose.)
I think another way to word the proposal is:
"Upon article submit, extract all of the by-hand-specially-marked
synonyms and create redirect articles for the synonyms that don't
already have articles."
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