In the last year and a half I've answered almost 500 questions in the promise tag. We have a rather small community there and we like to open canonicals such as this onethis one or that one. They usually help a lot with duplicates and are generally very useful to us.
One canonical in particular is What is the explicit promise construction antipattern and how do I avoid it?
It attracted over 2800 views and has both closed duplicates such as this one and a lot of linked questions. However it suffers from a particular interesting problem.
The same anti-pattern has a different name - "the promise constructor antipattern", people often use the terms interchangeably and I notice in comments and on IRC that it creates confusion - a part of this is that when people google it they can't find meaningful results fast.
Obviously, it'd be nice if people could find the canonical using the different name.
So I came up with a scheme today:
- I opened a question showing similar code to the canonical and a title containing the searchable query.
- I closed that question as a duplicate of the canonical as the gold badge owner on the tag.
This caused some confusion which led to meta discussion on the post's comments. I figured bringing it up for discussion on meta would be beneficial.
Is creating duplicates that solve a "searchability" issue a good idea?
