Talk:Frequent flyer program (Guantanamo)

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This article was unilaterally redirected to the interrogation section of sleep deprivation.

First, this technique is not solely used for interrogation. It is also being used to punish and harrass captives.

Second, readers may genuinely not know what the program is, and that it was part of the interrogations. Sending them to the sleep deprivation article, which, currently, does not even mention the term "frequent flyer" is highly confusing

Third, wikilinks that link to a subsection heading within another article is a very dangerous technique. It is widely used in the Wikipedia namespace, relatively rarely in article space. It is dangerous because our software only partially supports this technique.

1. There is no "what links here" feature for wikilinks to subsections.
2. With normal wikilinks, redirection makes sure links continue to work, even when the name of the target article is changed. But wikilinks to subsection headings break when the title of the subsection is changed, even with the addition of a single comma, or to correct an error in spelling or capitalization. These failures are silent, the editor who made them has no idea they are breaking things.
3. Only whole articles can go on one's watchlist. Subsections within an article can't.

For these reasons I have reverted the redirection. Geo Swan (talk) 19:44, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

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