Hi. My objection is based on Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Links to disambiguation pages. As the point of a template is to aid navigation (much as this is the point of a disambiguation page), it is better to link users directly to the topics they want to find. Templates are a particularly difficult problem because they create a large number of ambiguous links all at once. It's clear that Plaice is a valid disambiguation page; that said, two possible workarounds would be to have a summary of different fish called Plaice at " Plaice (fish)" and mark it as a set index article, or to create a " List of plaice" (is the plural plaice or plaices? cf. List of bears) and link the template to that. This is likely to come up repeatedly until it's resolved, since the links send it to the top of several lists of problem pages at WP:DPL and on the toolserver. (I separately redirected Bluefin tuna to the article on its genus which describes all of them, but that isn't an option here.) Dekimasu よ! 04:10, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
Also, you noted that you want to link major "species groups". The American plaice and the European plaice are only related at the level of the family ( Pleuronectidae) which also contains a lot of other flounder listed separately in the template, so this might be a place to make an exception to not listing individual species. Dekimasu よ! 04:17, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
"Sea cucumbers" goes Trepanging. Probably not right, or what? 82.141.65.218 ( talk) 18:30, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi. My objection is based on Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Links to disambiguation pages. As the point of a template is to aid navigation (much as this is the point of a disambiguation page), it is better to link users directly to the topics they want to find. Templates are a particularly difficult problem because they create a large number of ambiguous links all at once. It's clear that Plaice is a valid disambiguation page; that said, two possible workarounds would be to have a summary of different fish called Plaice at " Plaice (fish)" and mark it as a set index article, or to create a " List of plaice" (is the plural plaice or plaices? cf. List of bears) and link the template to that. This is likely to come up repeatedly until it's resolved, since the links send it to the top of several lists of problem pages at WP:DPL and on the toolserver. (I separately redirected Bluefin tuna to the article on its genus which describes all of them, but that isn't an option here.) Dekimasu よ! 04:10, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
Also, you noted that you want to link major "species groups". The American plaice and the European plaice are only related at the level of the family ( Pleuronectidae) which also contains a lot of other flounder listed separately in the template, so this might be a place to make an exception to not listing individual species. Dekimasu よ! 04:17, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
"Sea cucumbers" goes Trepanging. Probably not right, or what? 82.141.65.218 ( talk) 18:30, 23 November 2011 (UTC)