[WikiEN-l] "refactoring" signatures

Thu Jun 15 11:26:25 UTC 2006

Delirium wrote:
> 
> That sounds like an argument for making "hard" links where both titles 
> are equally authoritative---i.e. "traveling" and "travelling" are both 
> top-level titles, but in fact are the same page.
> 
> 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).

I do wonder why they don't simply redirect both to [[traveling, 
travelling]].  Of course, I'm not an active wiktionarian, so I wouldn't 
know.  It sounds so obvious that it's probably a perennial proposal.

-- 
Ilmari Karonen