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This category is getting awfully big and takes a very long time to load (it took me 3 tries to defeat the time-out bunny). Would it be a good idea to sub-categorise: for example create Category:Disambiguation (people)? -- Phil | Talk 17:03, Nov 12, 2004 (UTC)
Disambiguations are becoming increasingly common just like stub categories. We should make a disambiguation topic proposal page just like the stub proposal page. Doncha think? -- SuperDude 16:41, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
You're right on target: disambiguation must by its nature cross concepts. But notice: cross concepts. How is that done? By aligning construction. That is, the meaning of things is a terrible thing to categorize on, for example, subway stations, because you have to know that XYZ could be a subway station. But construction is good because construction is not as far removed from disambiguation, for example, anything with a number in it, n-letter acronyms and so on. Thus in the sub-categories above, those that attempt to classify by concept are not as good as those that attempt to classify by construction. Point is, everyone should ponder what other categories we can create that gear themselves toward construction rather than concept. -- Somewherepurple 23:56, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
Why is the category Category:disambiguation types being moved to this one? I was trying to sort dabs like stubs were sorted. -- SuperDude 04:52, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
I am baffled by an error. Some 3-letter acronyms are on the disambiguation category list abeit null presence of the category being embedded in the {{ TLAdisambig}} template and pages with that template embedded. We should maintain the main dab category so they can stay in Category:Three-letter acronym disambiguations. (unsigned comment from anon) -- 69.209.137.5 ( talk · contribs · logs) 20:55, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
This category is getting outta control! People keep reverting articles to use the generic dab template when I am trying to flush out category specific dabs to spinoff templates. Just think about some uniform aspects of dabs, if they are intercategorized, that would be an appropriate reason to use the generic dab template, otherwise, just use {{ miscdis}} or other topic-specific templates from Wikipedia:List of disambiguation types. -- SuperDude 23:48, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion going on at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)#Proposal to modify MoS section 'The disambig notice'. about the future of dab page cats. If you are interested in this topic, please come join that disucssion, to make sure your voice is heard before a decision is made. -- RoySmith 16:59, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
I put everything that started with 0 through 9 in the numerical category. There is an inconsistency with numbers: under the numbers category, there is a sub category that hold anything that is a letter/number combination. Yet, under some of the A-Z items at the top level, there are things that are letter/number combinations. One of these should go. I think it should be that any letter/number combinations should go into the number subcategory. - SomewherePurple 21:02, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
Finally some people other than me have depopulated this category. Please continue making more spinoff templates. -- SuperDude 22:50, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
There are several sub-categories that apparently belong to this master category (namely, "Category:Lists of roads sharing the same title", "Category:Tropical_cyclone_disambiguation" and maybe others), but DO NOT show as sub-categories. I tried to apply null edit to refresh the cache, but to no avail. Anybody has an idea why it happens ? -- Gabr 09:19, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
Refer to the CfD discussion @ Category:Signpost articles. Courtland 18:58, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
There is a poll at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages) until 12:00 (UTC) January 15, 2005.
There is a poll at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages) until 14:00 (UTC) January 15, 2005.
I have seen alot of articles with a header with a style like this:
also;
I would also like to create Category:Disambiguation pages for redirected article titles as a subcategory for Category:Secondary disambiguation pages. -- Nintendude userpage | message 20:40, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
I was reading through the Dakota disambiguation page, and found that it had so many entries that I got lost. So I went and boldfaced the key terms of each entry, which (I think) makes navigating through the page much easier. Before I do this to any other page, though, does anyone think I've done something I shouldn't? Is there some written or unwritten law I've violated? Thanks for your input. -- Badger151 02:04, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
I just changed/added sortkeys on 5 subcategories to "unhide" them, so they appear at the top of this category (edit: as opposed to appearing on one of the many "next 200" pages). Such "hidden" subcats can be found easily by backing up to the parent category, Category:Wikipedia administration and "expanding the tree" on this category's entry. - dcljr ( talk) 16:06, 18 March 2007 (UTC) edited 18:00, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
Is it possible to add "cleanup" to any dab pages other the straight ones? {{disambig-cleanup}} I would have thought it would be a good idea to extend cleanup to all dab pages with the results appearing here. Abtract ( talk) 19:58, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
No Way. The accompanying Cat contains (with one exception, involving a Cat-assigning template that i haven't figured out how to unbreak) tools and principles for maintaining Dab pages, while the proposed merge location contains Dab pages. With that exception, none of these pages are Dabs! For instance, WP:MoSDab does not begin
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Jerzy•
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17:38, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
The accompanying Cat, while remaining small, has become more diverse. I am putting into effect a subdivision of it, without prejudice to reversion, on the philosophy that the division will be more clear in practice than this proposal.
IMO we've had three subgroups,
My opinion is that subgroup 1 is well served by remaining the main population of the Cat, and subgroup 3 by being collected under the T heading. In contrast, subgroup 2 is large and diverse enuf that it may be well served by a separate alpha sequence that clearly separates them from 1 and 3.
There may be a need for other subgroups, but for now my perception is that they are likely to be fewer and more diverse that the first 3; i would add a "Misc Dab-related pages" sub-Cat whenever there is more to go in it than
User:Jarry1250/DisambigNav and
User:Jarry1250/Introduction, but for the sake of simplicity keep those two with
User:Jarry1250/Findings in subgroup2 for now.
I am proceeding by implementing that for a trial, confident that going back to what i found is likely to be less work than this explanation.
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Jerzy•
t
06:30, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
Okay, I know I saw something like this the other day, but now I can't find it. I am looking for some sort of guideline on how to choose the correct parenthetical qualifier for a disambiguation article title. For example, there is a page at Eddie Rodriguez about a baseballer. However, there are also both a Filipino writer/director/actor and a Texas State Representative by that name. If I was to try creating pages for them, (assuming they are proved notable) I suppose the first one should be called Eddie Rodriguez (actor) (since he acted in 145 films, and directed/wrote much fewer), but would the second one be Eddie Rodriguez (politician) or Eddie Rodriguez (representative) or Eddie Rodriguez (congressman) or what? -- Atlantima ( talk) 21:23, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
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This category is getting awfully big and takes a very long time to load (it took me 3 tries to defeat the time-out bunny). Would it be a good idea to sub-categorise: for example create Category:Disambiguation (people)? -- Phil | Talk 17:03, Nov 12, 2004 (UTC)
Disambiguations are becoming increasingly common just like stub categories. We should make a disambiguation topic proposal page just like the stub proposal page. Doncha think? -- SuperDude 16:41, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
You're right on target: disambiguation must by its nature cross concepts. But notice: cross concepts. How is that done? By aligning construction. That is, the meaning of things is a terrible thing to categorize on, for example, subway stations, because you have to know that XYZ could be a subway station. But construction is good because construction is not as far removed from disambiguation, for example, anything with a number in it, n-letter acronyms and so on. Thus in the sub-categories above, those that attempt to classify by concept are not as good as those that attempt to classify by construction. Point is, everyone should ponder what other categories we can create that gear themselves toward construction rather than concept. -- Somewherepurple 23:56, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
Why is the category Category:disambiguation types being moved to this one? I was trying to sort dabs like stubs were sorted. -- SuperDude 04:52, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
I am baffled by an error. Some 3-letter acronyms are on the disambiguation category list abeit null presence of the category being embedded in the {{ TLAdisambig}} template and pages with that template embedded. We should maintain the main dab category so they can stay in Category:Three-letter acronym disambiguations. (unsigned comment from anon) -- 69.209.137.5 ( talk · contribs · logs) 20:55, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
This category is getting outta control! People keep reverting articles to use the generic dab template when I am trying to flush out category specific dabs to spinoff templates. Just think about some uniform aspects of dabs, if they are intercategorized, that would be an appropriate reason to use the generic dab template, otherwise, just use {{ miscdis}} or other topic-specific templates from Wikipedia:List of disambiguation types. -- SuperDude 23:48, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion going on at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)#Proposal to modify MoS section 'The disambig notice'. about the future of dab page cats. If you are interested in this topic, please come join that disucssion, to make sure your voice is heard before a decision is made. -- RoySmith 16:59, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
I put everything that started with 0 through 9 in the numerical category. There is an inconsistency with numbers: under the numbers category, there is a sub category that hold anything that is a letter/number combination. Yet, under some of the A-Z items at the top level, there are things that are letter/number combinations. One of these should go. I think it should be that any letter/number combinations should go into the number subcategory. - SomewherePurple 21:02, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
Finally some people other than me have depopulated this category. Please continue making more spinoff templates. -- SuperDude 22:50, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
There are several sub-categories that apparently belong to this master category (namely, "Category:Lists of roads sharing the same title", "Category:Tropical_cyclone_disambiguation" and maybe others), but DO NOT show as sub-categories. I tried to apply null edit to refresh the cache, but to no avail. Anybody has an idea why it happens ? -- Gabr 09:19, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
Refer to the CfD discussion @ Category:Signpost articles. Courtland 18:58, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
There is a poll at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages) until 12:00 (UTC) January 15, 2005.
There is a poll at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages) until 14:00 (UTC) January 15, 2005.
I have seen alot of articles with a header with a style like this:
also;
I would also like to create Category:Disambiguation pages for redirected article titles as a subcategory for Category:Secondary disambiguation pages. -- Nintendude userpage | message 20:40, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
I was reading through the Dakota disambiguation page, and found that it had so many entries that I got lost. So I went and boldfaced the key terms of each entry, which (I think) makes navigating through the page much easier. Before I do this to any other page, though, does anyone think I've done something I shouldn't? Is there some written or unwritten law I've violated? Thanks for your input. -- Badger151 02:04, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
I just changed/added sortkeys on 5 subcategories to "unhide" them, so they appear at the top of this category (edit: as opposed to appearing on one of the many "next 200" pages). Such "hidden" subcats can be found easily by backing up to the parent category, Category:Wikipedia administration and "expanding the tree" on this category's entry. - dcljr ( talk) 16:06, 18 March 2007 (UTC) edited 18:00, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
Is it possible to add "cleanup" to any dab pages other the straight ones? {{disambig-cleanup}} I would have thought it would be a good idea to extend cleanup to all dab pages with the results appearing here. Abtract ( talk) 19:58, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
No Way. The accompanying Cat contains (with one exception, involving a Cat-assigning template that i haven't figured out how to unbreak) tools and principles for maintaining Dab pages, while the proposed merge location contains Dab pages. With that exception, none of these pages are Dabs! For instance, WP:MoSDab does not begin
--
Jerzy•
t
17:38, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
The accompanying Cat, while remaining small, has become more diverse. I am putting into effect a subdivision of it, without prejudice to reversion, on the philosophy that the division will be more clear in practice than this proposal.
IMO we've had three subgroups,
My opinion is that subgroup 1 is well served by remaining the main population of the Cat, and subgroup 3 by being collected under the T heading. In contrast, subgroup 2 is large and diverse enuf that it may be well served by a separate alpha sequence that clearly separates them from 1 and 3.
There may be a need for other subgroups, but for now my perception is that they are likely to be fewer and more diverse that the first 3; i would add a "Misc Dab-related pages" sub-Cat whenever there is more to go in it than
User:Jarry1250/DisambigNav and
User:Jarry1250/Introduction, but for the sake of simplicity keep those two with
User:Jarry1250/Findings in subgroup2 for now.
I am proceeding by implementing that for a trial, confident that going back to what i found is likely to be less work than this explanation.
--
Jerzy•
t
06:30, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
Okay, I know I saw something like this the other day, but now I can't find it. I am looking for some sort of guideline on how to choose the correct parenthetical qualifier for a disambiguation article title. For example, there is a page at Eddie Rodriguez about a baseballer. However, there are also both a Filipino writer/director/actor and a Texas State Representative by that name. If I was to try creating pages for them, (assuming they are proved notable) I suppose the first one should be called Eddie Rodriguez (actor) (since he acted in 145 films, and directed/wrote much fewer), but would the second one be Eddie Rodriguez (politician) or Eddie Rodriguez (representative) or Eddie Rodriguez (congressman) or what? -- Atlantima ( talk) 21:23, 27 February 2013 (UTC)