Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Muke Tever wrote:
Sabine Cretella <sabine_cretella(a)yahoo.it>
wrote:
Who contributes simply takes the words he is
"moving" (working on) off
the list - the admins have enough work with deleting all the re-directs
(or is there a way to do this automatically) maybe modifying the page
and writing "to be deleted" instead of the re-direct?
Why delete the redirects? You'll break all the old pages on the web
that link to Wiktionary articles.
You'll have to think of other wikimedia sites too. For example
en.wikipedia's "link to Wiktionary" template currently just
uses{{PAGENAME}}, which will always be capitalized, because Wikipediacapitalizes all
topics it treats.
Hoi,
You delete the redirects because they are plain wrong. A word that has
has both a capitalised version and a non capitalised version will be
split into two versions.
It is almost never useful to delete a redirect, unless you are planning on
replacing it with another page. Even en: policy says to leave them in place
for things like common errors, last I checked.
The usage of wikipedia's link to Wiktionary
currently does indeed use
PAGENAME, how do you know that it still refers to the correct versionof the word ?? You
do not ! So it needs to be changed as PAGENAME isnot good enough. It is feasible to
change the PAGENAME to something elsefor instance a genuine parameter that is either
capitalised or not. I thinkit would be feasible to have a bot check the occrurence of the
old templateand change it for a capitalised or an uncapitalised REAL parameter. So
practically all the instances of the current template need to be changed
anyway.
Yes, all that is what I said: such things need to be thought of.
One other reason why you want to change the current
wiktionary content
is because you will not add redirects for all the new words that will be
added in the future.
I stopped working on en: regularly awhile ago.
*Muke!
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