Steve Bennett wrote: > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 8:23 PM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Most of the typos for "MySpace.com" and "google.com" had been created >> and deleted by db-R3 (typo unlikely to happen in real life). I >> recreated them with an edit summary pointing to that page, as evidence >> that people's typing really is consistently much worse than we'd like >> to think ... >> >> >> > There is an argument that MediaWiki should really just have a very good > natural language search engine that can guess what users are looking for, > despite any typos. > > There's an even better argument that a hand-built search engine built by > thousands of monkeys addressing every query individually will outperform it > every time. > > And there is a further argument that [[Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#Redirects]] should reflect this by stronger wording. As in "if any doubt, don't nominate or delete, since the resource implications of retaining a redirect for a typo are tiny." I.e. much less than arguing about it.
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