BDFL in wikipedia

[Jorge Vargas]

On 2/21/07, Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-py at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
> En Wed, 21 Feb 2007 05:28:30 -0300, Andrew McNamara
> <andrewm at object-craft.com.au> escribió:
>
> >> Hi I just hit this page in wikipedia BDFL[1]
> >> and it redirected me to Guido's wikipedia[2] entry
> >> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BDFL
> >
> > I suspect, in this case, the redirect is implicit. It's happening
> > because the Wikipedia search engine finds no page called BDFL, and the
> > Guido_van_Rossum is the next closest match.
>
> No, both BDFL and Benevolent_Dict... have an explicit redirect to Guido's
> entry.
> It used to be quite different in the past, but the topic has been heavily
> discussed and edited.
> See
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Benevolent_Dictator_for_Life#Concerned_about_accuracy_-_BDs_versus_BDFLs
> Guido appears to be the *only* one called BDFL.
>
ahhh thanks Gabriel that should clear it out :)

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