[WikiEN-l] Naming convention: popularity vs. correctness

Sun Feb 9 22:06:50 UTC 2003

On dim, 2003-02-09 at 13:47, Erik Moeller wrote:
> Linkability is not an argument: People are already linking to this article  
> using [[Pennsylvania German|Pennsylvania Dutch]], because obviously they  
> do not want to use the corrupt form. Searchability is neither, since  
> redirects show up in searches.

On the contrary, that shows that people *do* want to use the corrupt
form, else they would be changing the links to [[Pennsylvania German]]
and letting the technically correct form appear in the text.

What it does show is that people have an aversion to linking to
redirects.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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