Rename: Doppleganger Crossover

As noted on the discussion page, the correct spelling is "doppelganger" (or, if you want to be pedantic, "doppelgänger").

Given how little use this trope has and how minor this change is, I do not believe we need a crowner to rename it to use the correct spelling of doppelganger. That is just my view though and I am curious to see if other people object to that.

In any event, dictionary.com does not give any results for doppleganger and I would rather not use an incorrect spelling on the wiki.

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Yes, unless someone can demonstrate that "doppleganger" is an acceptable English spelling, there's no reason we shouldn't correct the spelling on this one.

^ Google scores "Doppleganger" at just over 4 million, compared to just over two million for "Doppelganger".

Now to make things even more interesting, restricting to "Doppleganger -doppelganger" scores about 2 million (half the previous amount), while "Doppelganger -doppleganger" scores about 5 million (twice as much).

Merriam-Webster doesn't have an entry for it, but Wiktionary does.

Yeah, I would say it's common enough that we need to keep both spellings.

edited 5th Aug '11 1:05:05 AM by Stratadrake

An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.

And wiktionary sez:

The only thing worse than Gratuitous German is mangled German (gratuitous or not). Should be fixed as soon as possible.

And the correct term is a fucking redirect. What the hell?

edited 5th Aug '11 1:19:28 AM by Nyarly

People aren't as awful as the internet makes them out to be.

Take google's result counts with a grain of salt. They're almost never accurate estimates.

Infinite Tree: an experimental story

That was me. It's called "searchable redirects"...

An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.

Redirect swap time, then. Current title is a typo, albeit a common one.

Infinite Tree: an experimental story

I don't think we should swap redirects here. "Doppleganger" is wrong, plainly wrong. That it's a often-made mistake doesn't make it better (quite the opposite). We shouldn't support it by making it a redirect. It would be completely unnecessary anyway. If someone searches for "Doppleganger", the search will show the correct "Doppelganger". Google is flexible enough.

People aren't as awful as the internet makes them out to be.

I was about to cite inbounds as a reason to keep it as a redirect, but...112 people total? That means that there's probably 1 link out there somewhere, tops. Yeah, the current title should probably just be cut before it gets more.

edited 5th Aug '11 10:40:14 AM by INUH

Infinite Tree: an experimental story

Cut the misspelled one.

Alright, I'm doing this.