delirium(a)rufus.d2g.com wrote:
I used to
maintain the point of view that having redirects all over the
place (as long as they always go to the intended article) can never do
any harm, and in fact they keep the pages accessible under old links
(i.e. deleting them would break links elsewhere on the Internet).
Would it be possible to implement some sort of mechanism whereby a
redirect can be flagged as merely a convenience or technological measure,
not a legitimate alternate article title?
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.