Category talk:Redirects from misspellings

Why even allow this type of page? If the creator of the link sees that it is broken right away they are more likely to fix it. Similarly for someone who comes along and sees that the link is broken. TechPurism 16:47, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

A. To prevent duplicate articles from being made by a "bad speller" B. To quickly access links that need fixing because a "bad speller" linked to it. C. Not everybody who uses the English wikipedia is a good speller, or even speaks fluent English. — FREAK OF NUR_xTURE (TALK) 12:55, Jan. 18, 2006

This is really, really stupid. There are an infinite number of misspellings of every page name, how do you select which ones deserve a redirect? All of these should be deleted, IMO. --Khendon 08:32, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

While judging whether they deserve a redirect or not probably isn't possible, there are plenty of very easily misspelled words (calling them non-standard spellings would probably work better) that get huge numbers of hits, and it would be a real lapse of judgement not to include redirects to those queries (e.g. Antartica, which is how the rest of my family likes to think it's spelled). freshgavin ΓΛĿЌ 13:04, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Is someone fixing these with a bot?

Well? — Dunc|☺ 13:09, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I just wrote a script for this. It's similar to my spelling tool, but since there are "only" about 2000 articles that link to redirects in this category, I'll try to fix them myself.

If anybody wants to help or wants the source code (PHP), let me know. Wmahan . 04:34, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've gone through much of the list, but there are still about 1000 left. I put an updated list at User:Wmahan/Links to redirects from misspellings. Any help in going through the list would be appreciated. Wmahan . 20:51, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Be very careful. In some cases, the #REDIRECT target is not the correct spelling of the word. For instance, see La Nina. The correct spelling is La Niña, but La Nina redirects to El Niño-Southern Oscillation in order to avoid a double redirect. If the text of a link to La Niña was updated with El Niño-Southern Oscillation, the sentence would not only be awkward but change meaning. And, of course, the cost of a redirect is quite low; certainly, not worth the chance of leaving a spelling error in the text but correcting the link, or trying to fix the spelling and accidentally changing the meaning. -- Steven Fisher 06:34, 7 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. I suggested a possible solution at Template talk:R from misspelling. Wmahan . 04:45, 9 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Capitalization as a misspelling?

Should a redirect that is different from the correct page title only by capitalization be considered a misspelling? For instance, should Abraham lincoln be listed as a "redirect from misspelling"? –RHolton ≡– 19:18, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In practice, it appears people use this template for such clearly nonstandard capitalizations. However, when a variation in capitalization is not a misspelling but rather a matter of stylistic preference, as with, say, Coriolis Effect → Coriolis effect, {{R from other capitalisation}} and the corresponding Category:Redirects from other capitalisations are a better alternative. Wmahan . 06:19, 9 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

More Obvious

I just discovered this template. As a lousy speller myself who does try to get things spelled right, I am glad to see it. However, it should be obvious to a redirected user what happened. If I go to Condoleeza Rice and wind up at Condoleezza Rice, I could easily miss this:

(Redirected from Condoleeza Rice)

I would like to see

You entered “Condoleeza Rice”.
the correct spelling is “Condoleezza Rice”.

preferably on its own page so I'd have to click and would have my misspelling negatively reinforced and still get the page I want. Alternately this box could appear on the correct page. Is this technically feasible with MediaWiki? —Ben FrantzDale 01:06, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think this might be kind of annoying for some users, especially those with slow connections. I guess it depends how many people are interested in learning how to spell and how many are just interested in getting to their article quicker. So I don't know. But I personally wouldn't like this change. delldot | talk 01:34, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think this would be great. This i how google work when you enter misspelled word.–Stijak 00:42, 2 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Substing?

Since you have to subst the template to see the text on the page (it only appears in the edit window), shouldn't the page say

"To add a redirect to this category, put {{subst:R from misspelling}} after the redirect but on the same line."

rather than

"To add a redirect to this category, put {{R from misspelling}} after the redirect but on the same line."

as it currently does? If you all agree to the change, I'll discuss it on the other redirect templates' talk pages too. delldot | talk 01:34, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK, well no one objected, so I'm going to make the change. If there's a problem with that, you can revert me or discuss it here. Thanks, delldot | talk 00:20, 27 December 2006 (UTC) ~~On second thought, I think I'll discuss it on other redirect template pages and try to figure out why it's not already being done. delldot | talk 00:26, 27 December 2006 (UTC)~~[reply]