[WikiEN-l] "refactoring" signatures

Thu Jun 15 07:58:53 UTC 2006

On 6/15/06, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> The current solution, making them different pages, is IMO much worse
> than favoring one or the other, since it requires people to basically
> copy/paste definitions across multiple pages, and make sure changes stay
> in sync.  Look, for example, at "traveling" versus "travelling", which
> currently actually have wildly different content despite being the same
> word with a minor variation in spelling (this was the first example I
> checked).

This whole thing seems silly, bordering on extremely silly. Should
Wikipedia have separate articles for petrol and gasoline?

Possible solution (if it's absolutely critical that color and colour
both have top level non-redirected articles): Put all the content in
{{colr}} and transclude it. If you include a heading near the top and
people use section editing, they won't even know!

Steve