Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-4679574-20130829174819/@comment-188432-20130913131813

It's a really tricky issue, frankly. Thing is, there is some utility to having misspelled words as redirects because it will help with auto-suggest in the search bar. On the search side of the equation, a redirect from a misspell will instantly show the user the correct spelling.

The difficulty comes on the edit side. If people start using the incorrect spelling to edit articles, casual readers will likely think the wiki isn't very well managed.

I personally would take a compromise view. I don't know what your wiki topic is, but if it's one that has a lot of fictional names, I'd generally let wrong — but phonetically plausible — redirects stand when it came to minor, obscure things. People aren't going to know how the name of a minor character appearing for one second in the 20th episode of series 5 is going to be spelled. But I would definitely get rid of misspelled redirects for major pages about your topic. I mean you don't want story titles or major character names to have a misspelled redirects because then your wiki will appear to the very average reader like it really doesn't know what it's doing. If you have a few links to a misspelled obscurity, only the über-fans will be bothered. And hopefully they'll be bothered enough to correct the page.