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[kaputtnik <somal@xxxxxxxx>]

> > Should creating of articles prevented if a redirect exists?
> 
> Yes, I think this is acceptable. We create maybe 10 articles per year, it will
> be a while till we run out of names, even including redirects.

Ok, then i try to prevent it in this branch :-)

> 
> > If we want redirects to stay forever, this isn't needed, isn't it?
> 
> While that is true, it might still be nice to fix all references we have
> internally to have consistency.

I think this would be better to manage if we have the other bug fixed and we have also a consistent syntax for internal wiki links.

> > There is no real 'redirect-object' and i have trouble to abstract the
> redirects.
> 
> One solution would be to have a separate table that holds only the existing
> redirects. That table is queried first whenever a article is requested and if
> a match is found, the redirect is evaluated.

I have to think about it. But i guess this would be also better to do it in another branch, because this one is only to prevent the renaming to a name an existing article, or a redirect, has.
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