[WikiEN-l] "refactoring" signatures

Sat Jun 24 07:44:19 UTC 2006

Ilmari Karonen wrote:

>Delirium wrote:
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>>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).
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>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.
>
It might work with "travel(l)ing", but not with "colo(u)r" since "color" 
is also used in Spanish, but "colour" is not.

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