alternates
When merging a question with alternates into another question, the alternates of the merged question are merged into the alternates of the primary question.
Olympic alternates don't get medals in team events, unless at some point in time they participate in the event to any extent. The alternates aren't alone however, coaches don't get medals either
No, alternates that you split before joining The Initiates Program do not count towards your total for the splitting alternates mission. Similarly, any alternates that you split whilst on a previous mission do not count towards your total either. It is only the alternates that you split from the start date of your mission that count towards the mission. You can check how many alternates you have split by clicking on "My contributions" on the blue menu and filtering to "Alternates (other)".
If you are struggling to find alternates to sort during your alternates mission in TIP, please get in touch with your TIP Supervisor. The TIP Supervisor will lend you a hand by providing a question or two with bad alternates. Though it is best to try and find these yourself to show your ability to recognise questions with messy alternates.
The luggage room is, a car in the train full of the passengers' luggage. *do not add alternates to this question*
I don't think that any questions inherently need alternates. Good answered questions that can be asked a lot of different ways though, might be "in need" of some preemptive alternates, so that other forms of the question don't collect on the site and sit unanswered.
Through 2010, there were "Catch All Questions" that had tens of thousands of alternates. But these were broken up and now exist as categories instead.As alternates are just rephrasings or misspellings of the same question, the number of alternates will be higher where there are1) many ways to phrase the question,2) many synonyms for the words in a question, and/or3) many ways to misspell the words in a question.Anything more than a few dozen will usually mean some of the alternates are there by mistake.However, due to the large number of askers, games questions can accumulate many alternates. To see two examples of how spelling contributes to the growth of alternates, see the two "Poptropica" in the related questions below.
Most new questions have no alternates. The status of a question changes frequently.
The first tier is alternates is meant to be for all of the different wordings of the question that have correct grammar and spelling. The second tier can contain an unlimited number of alternates that are variations of the alternates in the first tier.
The alternates come in like avalanches. What we need most are well thought-out answers and some help organizing (moving questions to their appropriate categories and splitting out alternates that are attached to the wrong question). You can volunteer by contacting the supervisor of your favorite category or checking in on the WikiAnswers forum for more information.
An alternate specialist is a person who fixing the alternates getting rid of any alternates that are incorrect and obscene or inflamatory by doing this they get rid of vandalism and help out the sites functionality