[WikiEN-l] Adolph Hitler

J. Noel Chiappa jnc at lcs.mit.edu
Thu Nov 13 13:45:34 UTC 2003


     > From: Fred Bauder <fredbaud at ctelco.net>

     >> I don't think we need to record misspellings, otherwise we can get
     >> stuck up with every variant typo, incl. Jospeh Goebbels.

     > If a misspelling gets 70,000 hits on Google it deserves a brief mention.

No, if a mis-spelling gets 70,000 hits it deserves a *redirect*. A name
variant only deserves a mention in the article if it's one that people
actually consciously use (e.g. Rameses/Ramesses).

	Noel




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