On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 9:05 PM, DanTMan <dan_the_man(a)telus.net> wrote:
It's quite possible for someone to click a
redlink after a page has
already been created. And when someone clicks a redlink to create a
page, they are expecting to create that page, not another. So perhaps
when coming from a redlink we should add in an extra message if the page
already exists saying something like "A page with this title has
recently been created. It's likely that you want to edit that page
rather than create a new one. Do you wish to switch to editing that page
instead of creating a new one under a different title?" And give them a
link to switch to that page's edit mode instead.
Someone clicking a red link wants to either
1) read the page (not knowing it doesn't exist), or
2) create the page (thinking it doesn't exist).
In case 1 the best behavior would be to redirect the user to the page
as though it were a blue link. In case 2 the best behavior is
unclear, since the user's expectations are wrong, and so actually if
we do any special-casing, it may as well be a 301 redirect to the
existing page as though it were a blue link. But I wouldn't waste too
many brain cells on this, since it's a fairly uncommon scenario.