Board Thread:Spelling debates/@comment-188432-20130428153100/@comment-188432-20130430014806

This thread is merely a discussion about the spelling of one word, as provided for by both T:SPELL itself and T:SBOT LIST. The result of this discussion will be to change the coding — or not — on T:SBOT, and to determine the nominally "most correct" spelling for the purposes of starting articles. We will not be creating any sort of categorical structure as a consequence of this discussion. Spelling cannot be efficiently maintained through categories, so please let that idea die its natural death.

While one possible outcome of this discussion might well be that we simply change SBOT to not correct for encyclopaedia, we do at least need to decide on the spelling of Encyclopaedia Britannica, since an attempt has been made to start a page on it, and since different in-universe spellings can be demonstrated. We also need to decide on the spelling for any future page on encyclopedias in general, since there's obviously enough material to start such a page.

Because we do have to have one of the two spellings in order to even start these two pages, there will be a "correct" spelling whether we like it or not. So which will it be?

And since there is only going to be one possible page name, should the bot not simply correct to that page name? Is there a real advantage to allowing the use of redirects in the text of pages?