Talk:Moscow-Washington hot line

Initial Creation and Motivation for Redirect
The Aftermath section of the Cuban Missile Crisis article refers to the Moscow-Washington hot line (sic). Both hot line and hotline are valid terms. The topic to which the Moscow-Washington hot line article refers is authored under the name Moscow-Washington hotline.

The easiest way to fix this would be to alter the Cuban Missile Crisis article's Aftermath section. However, that article is locked and I do not have permission to change it. Thus, I have created a redirect from Moscow-Washington hot line to the article Moscow-Washington hotline.

Given that both terms "hotline" and "hot line" are correct, this is probably a good idea to have this redirect anyway. For someone that has the appropriate permissions, it might be a good idea to decide which form to use by convention. I noticed that the reference to Moscow-Washington hot line in the Cuban Missile Crisis article's Aftermath section is the only such reference on Wikipedia (n.b. to hot line as opposed to hotline), with all others being to Moscow-Washington hotline. Ergo, it perhaps makes the most sense to change the reference in the Cuban Missile Crisis article's Aftermath section to Moscow-Washington hotline for intrawiki consistency yet retain the Moscow-Washington hot line redirect for the sake of those searching on this variant directly.

Pagoda123 (talk) 00:23, 25 May 2008 (UTC)