[WikiEN-l] New York, New York, a hell of a town...

Mon May 10 22:58:42 UTC 2004

If someone comes to Wikipedia for information on the city that O. Henry 
called "Bagdad-on-the-Hudson," and they type in something reasonable... 
like "New York" or "New York City" or "New York, New York" or "NY" or 
"Manhattan" or "The Big Apple" or even "Gotham," are they going to find 
what they seek?

The answer to this rhetorical question is that "Bagdad-on-the-Hudson" 
comes up blank, but all the others either take one immediately to a 
page with a pretty picture of the Manhattan Skyline and the Statue of 
Liberty, or present it as a clearly explained link less than an inch 
from the top of the page.

So, even though I personally think that putting it under "City of New 
York" is a) pedantic and b) inconsistent, let me coin a motto, 
"Wikipedia is not thumb-indexed" and, Emerson, you know, foolish 
consistency, hobgoblin etc. etc.

I am not, however, volunteering to update the 501 pages that link to 
"New York, New York" to remove double redirects. Somebody _was_ 
planning to do that, right?  :-)

--
Daniel P. B. Smith, dpbsmith at verizon.net
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