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== Handling misspelled names == Hi Canele, I appreciate all the work you have been doing on the site. Re: mispelled names - I can't find where Wikipedia keeps misspelled names as a page redirect. I think keeping misspelled names clutters up the drop down menu. [[User:Kmdenmark|Kmdenmark]] ([[User talk:Kmdenmark|talk]]) 15:44, 17 January 2019 (EST) :Hi [[User:Kmdenmark]], thanks for your message and sorry I didn't include the en-WP policy link from the start--it's here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect#Reasons_for_not_deleting (I was especially thinking of items 2, 4, and 5). Wikipedia does delete rather than redirect some misspellings but only if it's misleading in some way, or "implausible" that someone might make the same mistake (e.g. if the correct name were Clare Longlastname, WP would keep Claire Longlastname as a redirect to help readers find Clare, because but not Clard Longlastname, because that's not likely to recur). That's why my inclination was to keep Zach for Zack, but yes I can see that it might confuse readers who put the name into the search bar and then wonder if there are two different researchers (less of a problem on Wikipedia when putting anything into the search bar will always give you a large number of results.) It does seem to be a tradeoff, in terms of streamlining that versus preventing inadvertent dead ends--I've found several so far in going through the top redlinked pages. :Hm. Well this isn't the most urgent question, we can always add deleted redirects back if we decide later we want them, but maybe I'll put a note <s>on the [[MEpedia_talk:Manual_of_Style|discussion page of the MOS]]</s> to see if there are more opinions on what people find useful--in the end, whatever most people find most useful will be the best thing to do! [[User:Canele|Canele]] ([[User talk:Canele|talk]]) 18:41, 17 January 2019 (EST) ::Actually probably a better question for [[Talk:Editorial Guidelines]] so it's there! [[User:Canele|Canele]] ([[User talk:Canele|talk]]) 19:13, 17 January 2019 (EST) ===Re: Handling misspelled names -- ~~~~=== : Replace this text with your reply
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