User talk:Rob cowie
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[edit] Kukhri
Hi Rob, thanks for the article on Kukhri. There is already an article kukri, I guess it's the same thing with a different spelling? Anyway I moved the contents of this article kukhri to the kukri page and added a redirect to kukhri. Hope it's OK. Please feel free to edit the "kukri" page if you're not happy with the way I moved it. --DannyWilde 14:06, 5 October 2005 (UTC) \
[edit] Easy Cheese
I uploaded a picture, check it out. actually these cheese is alright, except for the pizza kind, stay away from that. --NeverLogic 6:58 ET, 6 December 2005
[edit] Adam's ale
Hi, I put a {{wi}} tag over your entry for "Adam's ale" because in my opinion it's just a phrase, not something you can write an encyclopedia article about, so it belong in wiktionary not here. Feel free to revert if you think I'm wrong. Kappa 23:18, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Sumela Monastery
You wrote:
- From User talk:Howcheng: I feel that I ought to point out that it was not I who made a mistake with the naming of this article. I simply responded to a request to improve/merge the two articles. As for the reasoning behind not deleting misspelt articles.. perhaps you could explain why the current policy is a good one? I'm amazed.
- From Talk:Sumela Monastrey: Anyway, if we are to use redirects as a method of preventing spelling mistakes, should I set to and start creating redirects for all spelling permutations of every article on the site? I think not.
My apologies for saying that it was your mistake. I don't think there's an official policy per se for redirects from misspellings, but the precedent certainly exists (see WP:RDR). I also don't think you or anyone else needs to go and create redirects for likely misspellings; we just handle them as they come up. We keep them, though, because people make mistakes and having the redirects improves the user experience in that they will be able to find what they were (most likely) looking for without have to search again. Also if they don't realize they're misspelling the title, they might end up thinking, "Why doesn't Wikipedia have an article on [topic]?" when in fact we do. Note that, however, WP:CSD does provide a criterion for deleting redirects that are unlikely typos. HTH. howcheng {chat} 17:24, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
I have absolutely no idea if such a feature is being developed (or even being considered for development) or if WP will be moving to a different wiki software, as I don't take part in those discussions. I kind of doubt the latter, however, as there have been considerable man-hours devoted to developing the MediaWiki software. howcheng {chat} 07:38, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
