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List:       wikien-l
Subject:    Re: [WikiEN-l] "refactoring" signatures
From:       "Wildrick Steele" <wildrick.steele () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-06-17 12:52:21
Message-ID: 6eaa4d100606170552s49d7ef97j2722f38cfd9b6165 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 15/06/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 6/15/06, Delirium <delirium@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
> 


Right, if it were that simple, this would have long been solved before.
Please check out the tons of discussions on it, for instance here:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Beer_parlour_archive/March_06#First_quarter_2006_US_vs._UK_flamewar


Everyone is welcome to re-start the discussions, but I doubt it will change
anything.

Reasons include that [[color]] contains, or at least should contain,
different etymologies, pronunciations, derived terms, related terms, etc.
than [[colour]]. Another argument is that [[color]] also lists the Latin,
Spanish, etc. words, which [[colour]] doesn't of course.

Redirects are really a Wikipedia thing, and cause much disagreement over on
Wiktionary. A dictionary isn't fit to redirect the user to a different page,
when they only need to know what the word they entered exactly means.

Cheers,
Wildrick
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:Vildricianus
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