Yatch is not an alternative spelling of yacht, it is a mis-spelling. I would prefer the Yatch page to be deleted altogether, to be honest. Silently redirecting this will do nothing to encourage people to improve their spelling. -- —The preceding unsigned comment was added by150.101.157.197 (talk • contribs) .
I am forced to disagree --- silently redirecting it to a page where the word is correctly spelled over and over will, I believe, likely do much more to improve spelling than simply leaving whoever would actually stumble upon the blank Yatch page in the lurch. -- Saaber05:48, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
In that case should not all possible mis-spellings also have redirect pages? What is special about the word yacht? 150.101.157.197
Allow me to be totally honest: I have no idea why Infrogmation felt it was worth his time to add the redirect page. I don't see any particular reason to break it, though, either. For that matter, how did you stumble upon this page? -- Saaber05:56, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Because a friend who can't spell told me he wanted a pony and a yatch for Christmas. I said there's no such thing as a yatch, and he sent me the wikipedia link to prove me wrong. You won't find "Yatch - see Yacht" in a "real" encylopedia so I don't really see why wikipedia should be any different. 150.101.157.19706:01, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
If he actually read the article he ended up at and didn't notice 'Yacht' spelled correctly a dozen dozen times and the little note saying "Redirected from Yatch", there may be other forces at work. You won't find "Brittany Spears - see Britney Spears" in a real encyclopedia (presuming we are both using the term to mean something approximating "paper") either, but the nature of this medium means that we can add and use these convenient shortcuts. -- Saaber06:07, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The point is not that people won't see the correct spelling on the "Yacht" page, it is that they won't realise that their version of the spelling is incorrect. In 10 years' time if the world is full of people who think "yatch" is just an alternative spelling of "yacht" and using the two interchangeably becomes acceptable, you will only have yourself to blame. 150.101.157.19706:10, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I'd be highly amused if that were to come about, but perhaps we can sneak a compromise by my fellow patrolmen, as I'm certainly sympathetic to your position. Hold a moment, I'll edit the article page, and let's see if we can't agree upon it. -- Saaber06:13, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
It seems to me a little unencyclepedic to have the text "Perhaps you meant yacht, as there is no such thing as a 'yatch'." Isn't there a policy on redirecting misspelled words??? --Cumbiagermen08:12, 8 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
It is probably worth pointing out that OED has several quotations from 17th-18th C sources for 'yatch' e.g. J. Harris Lexicon Technicum II, "Yatches, are Vessels with one Deck carrying from 4 to 12 Guns, with from 20 to 40 Men; and are of Burden from 30 to 160 Tun." alexander11000:57, 22 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
