[WikiEN-l] "refactoring" signatures

Thu Jun 15 18:14:14 UTC 2006

On 15/06/06, Ilmari Karonen <nospam at vyznev.net> wrote:
> 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.

But *which one would go first*?

(I'll bet you people would fight over that, too.)

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