Should redirected wiki articles show source or target date data?

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Should redirected wiki articles show source or target date data? #38

Closed wincent closed 5 years ago

wincent commented 8 years ago

eg:

Mac OS X Created 3/23/2007, updated 7/27/2012
OS X Created 7/27/2012

ie. it was called "Mac OS X" for a while, then a new article called "OS X" was created and the old one got changed into a redirect.

For other fields in the article, we show the redirection target's data (ie. we show the "OS X" article's title, body, tags). Should we show the dates there too? In a sense that would be lossy.

Labeling as a question because I am honestly not sure.

wincent commented 5 years ago

I think I like it the way it is. The non-lossiness argument persuades me.