Arguments against case-sensitiveness, #48105738

Oh dear.

This is not at all a slam against Gorobay; I highly appreciate his contributions to MYSTlore.

It is instead me failing to comprehend how anyone could have thought that a software should treat “Guild of burial workers” and “Guild of Burial Workers” as distinct articles to begin with. Without a redirect set up (as Gorobay did), going to the non-existant one will simply lead you to a 404-esque page, with a search link, which will then redirect you to the correct page. Why have that interim step to begin with?

There are actually cases on MYSTlore where we take advantage of the case-sensitive nature of MediaWiki article titles. Off the top of my head, “MYST” and “RIVEN” come to mind: they point to the games, whereas “Myst” and “Riven” point to the Ages. This distinction makes sense insofar as spelling the two in all-uppercase is a marketing thing; they’re not acronyms, initialisms or anything, but instead names, so they should be capitalized as proper nouns. Therefore, when one writes them as all capitalized, they are more likely to refer to the product.

But that’s an extremely rare occasion, and still a very questionable one. Perhaps you meant the other one after all? Perhaps (quite likely) you don’t really think of them as distinct at all? And how are you supposed to know the aforementioned rationale for the redirect?