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My proposal is that, for any
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Every page which is the target of a redirect should define every term redirected to it. These definitions should contain the verbatim wording of the redirected page (so that a reader arriving at the page from the redirect can do a Find In Page in their web browser to quickly find the definition of
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Eventually, the wiki software could even catch these things; a redirect would be prohibited unless the target page's text contained an exact match of the term being redirected from, and an edit removing the last mention of any term being redirected to the page being edited would also delete the
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In addition to a talk page for every article page, there should be draft pages. For each article page, any contributor can create a new 'draft', and a list of these pages should be accessible from a 'drafts' tab next to the
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There should be a guideline that you don't delete large amounts of text newly written by others, even if it is poorly sourced, etc (although i guess text which is legally impermissible or offensive should still be summarily deleted). Rather, you move such text into a draft page.
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The guideline about not summarily deleting other people's newly written text is key. Eventually this could be suggested by software; if a revert or edit meets certain conditions, the wiki software could by default create a new draft with deletions instead of just deleting it.
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To prevent confusion by readers who don't know about draft pages and who think they represent a part of consensus
Knowledge (XXG), the draft pages could only be viewed by logged-in contributors who have checked a box to enable them.
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Too often I find terms redirected to other pages which don't even mention the original term. The reader is left to guess what the relationship between the terms are. Are they synonymous? Distantly related?
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A solution here is a division of labor. We allow people to write poorly sourced text and then for this text to be incrementally, collaboratively improved until it is ready to go on the main page.
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Perhaps at the time that the redirect was created, the target page mentioned the term, but then that mention was later removed. When this occurs the redirect should be un-redirected.
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Now other people can dig through the draft pages and find text that they want to improve, then they improve the text and post it to the main page.
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Occasionally I hear about someone who has a
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It's tremendously disheartening to have text that you spent time writing summarily deleted.
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