[WikiEN-l] Redirects

Mon Dec 22 20:34:37 UTC 2003


> -----Original Message-----
> From: wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-
> bounces at Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Lih
> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 9:25 AM
> To: 'English Wikipedia'
> Subject: RE: [WikiEN-l] Redirects
> 
> Tarquin wrote
> >A *very long time ago* I suggested we implement sysnonyms of the
> >REDIRECT keyword, that would indicate the type:
> >#MISSPELLING
> >#DEPRECATED for subpages, etc
> >and plain old #REDIRECT would correspond to a "see also" entry.
> 
> This is a great idea... Something that will help make sense of the
"keep
> all redirects" policy, which I've always had problems with.
> 
Deprecated isn't a great idea; we want to restrict names to ones that
don't have meaning only within a Wikipedia context; they should have
meaning outside of Wikipedia. Such as 

#REDIRECT (for alternate names of same topic)
#MISSPELLING (for misspellings)
#SUBTOPIC_OF (for redirects into broader topics, which I think is bad
practice but other people like)