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List:       wikien-l
Subject:    Re: [WikiEN-l] "refactoring" signatures
From:       "Steve Bennett" <stevagewp () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-06-17 17:45:54
Message-ID: b8ceeef70606171045l4037fcd1x9fe58e6fc4208d51 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 6/17/06, Wildrick Steele <wildrick.steele@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Hmm. A redirect is the electronic equivalent of "See xxx". There's
nothing un-dictionary-like about "Variant spelling of xxx, see xxx".

But hey, Wiktionary can fight its own battles...

Steve
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