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Is it acceptable to edit user pages to fix links to disambiguation pages? I don't want to offend if this is a no-no Sannse 16:32 Jan 22, 2003 (UTC)
The Prince page is not really a disambiguation page, just a list of definitions of the various ways a prince can be a prince, along with a disambiguation block re: Prince Rogers Nelson and The Prince. However, since people are likely to keep linking to [[Prince]] when they mean [[Prince Rogers Nelson]], I'm inclined to leave it on the Wikipedia:Links_to_disambiguating_pages list so that links to it get listed here and reviewed every now and then.... what say others? Catherine 03:00 Mar 25, 2003 (UTC)
How do I edit the Esperanto Wiki to redirect Comic? Skeetch 03:09, Oct 29, 2003 (UTC)
It may make more sense to remove Vector from the list of disambiguation pages. It contains pertinent discussion on the subject and there already exists a Vector (disambiguation) page. Skeetch 20:19, Nov 10, 2003 (UTC)
How does the search work when there is a redirect to the disambiguation page? Will it count links in to both pages? Or do both pages have be listed separately on the Wikipedia:Links to disambiguating pages page? Rossami 02:45, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)
For the new list I have also included all pages linked from "Wikipedia:Multiple-place names A" and the other 25 letters. There are quite a few of those that are not really disambiguation pages though. Just remove those that are not from this list. Andre Engels 09:08, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Gah! Function was just converted into a disambiguation page. There's 549 links to it!! This'll be a job to convert. Granted, they did a really good job of constructing the disambiguation page, but I'm not sure page history was correctly copied, and I'm not convinced it should go here, rather than function (disambiguation) or something (which is a redirect). (Would this be less work to fix?) Any comments on this before I start working on fixing these? -- ssd 04:41, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I'm slowly working on it. Feel free to join in!
By the way, does someone/something periodically run the automated update process? How often does this happen?
- Andre Engels 10:37, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Should we remove links from the list only when ALL links are fixed (except redirects and appropriate links)? Should User:Talk and Talk: links be fixed as well? I removed Car and Current because the only remaining links are Talk, User or Redirect links. Is this appropriate? -- Golbez 09:01, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
I notice that a lot of the entries people finished left in with a comment "needs constant watching". Considering that this page isn't getting regenerated very often, perhaps it should be split into links needing disambiguation and disambiguation pages fixed but frequently needing rechecks, where stuff doesn't get deleted from the latter... -- ssd 05:15, 20 May 2004 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages maintenance. Josh Parris ✉ 01:03, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
AIUI, now that we're on MediaWiki 1.3, the links table works differently, and so tho above code fragments won't work - so, presumably, you need to do a nested SELECT to work out the article_id for the page
Wikipedia:Links to disambiguating pages (?)...
James F.
(talk)
19:45, 30 May 2004 (UTC)
What does Yugoslavia 243 do here? It is not a dab page. Mikkalai 03:40, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I have done some work on "script", but there is still a problem. There is no article for a comic book script or a theater script. What sould I do with these? Should I remove the wikilinks? Should I create wikilinks to non-existing articles and hope they get written by someone else? JoaoRicardo 01:10, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I have been working on punk now for a reasonable amount of time now, but it seems that i keep running into quite a few of the same links as before. DOes anyone know the reason why?? Jaberwocky6669 03:24, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)
(Moved from article)
I have to stay awake to wait for someone who will be showing up around 2 AM, so I figured I'd keep myself occupied with something productive. With any luck I should be finished tomorrow morning.
albeit slightly behind schedule. Yay! CAPS LOCK 07:16, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I was working on the disney disambiguation page, and found that there was a template sitting on 200 pages or so that linked to the page. So I tracked down the template and changed the link to "The walt disney company".
I thought 'problem solved', and it should have been. However, many of these pages, including Captain Loyal Hawk, are still listed as linking to the disambiguation page, even though visiting the page itself shows no links to the disambiguation page. What am I missing?-- Measure July 6, 2005 17:44 (UTC)
What is the proper way to do these musical tempo disambig links? For instance:
These are listed together in many different symphony pages as the names of movements. However, the disambig pages for these all lead to Tempo. It would seem odd to give a list of links of these movement names, and have them all link to the same Tempo page. In order to maintain unique links in case these links are differentiated in the future for whatever reason, should I link them to Allegro_(Tempo), Largo_(Tempo), etc, and then set up those pages as redirects to Tempo? Or should I just not worry about it, and link them all directly? - Marvin01 | talk 8 July 2005 18:49 (UTC)
It is more important to have links disambiguated right than have them disambiguated fast. I just checked ten links on a word I was disambiguating slowly and which a disambiguator had raced past me on. One was probably the wrong dab, one almost certainly a suboptimal dab, one I had left ambiguous intentionally because the web leaves it unclear whether a general or specific sense is meant. Four of them ignored errors in the same sentence, and most left clumsy prose.
I don't think this dabber was in any way to blame; but do remember that a link, once dabbed, may never be looked at again. Septentrionalis 02:17, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
Try disentangling nationalities from ethnicities in Involuntary settlements in the Soviet Union, preferably not one word at a time. Bo Lindbergh 03:02, July 23, 2005 (UTC)
Is there ever a time when it is better to remove the link entirely? I started to disambiguate "south" and one of the first links referred to the southern part of the state the article was about, call it "south Nebraska." Since, naturally, there is no article which covers south Nebraska, the link is useless. Or so it seems to me. – Shoaler ( talk) 16:14, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Most other versions of Wikipedia (other than English) have implemented a system of categories that users can add themselves to on their user page - the English wikipedia up until now has had a very tangled and minimal system of categories for this and has mostly used a series of lists on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians page. For example, the Wikipedia:Alphabetical list of Wikipedians, which has spawned many errors in the past and grown almost the point of not being manageable. This entire system should be replaced by categories, such as Category:Wikipedians and its subcategories such as Category:Wikipedians by location and its subcategories such as Category:Wikipedians in the United States (which would be the replacement for Wikipedia:Wikipedians/United States. Anybody who would like to lend a hand in converting these pages should refer to the changes that are slowly being made to Wikipedia:Wikipedians and the different emerging, afformentioned categories to find a starting place. Whenever a page in Wikipedia:Wikipedians is replaced, all links to that page should also be replaced with a link to the newly created category. Also, a hierarchy should be maintained among the categories (for example, Category:Wikipedians in Acadia had been tagged in the Category:Canadian Wikipedians category which is then tagged in the Category:Wikipedians by location category which is, in turn, tagged in the master Category:Wikipedians category.-- thereverendeg 17:53, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
A project page has been added for this - Wikipedia:User categorisation
-- thereverendeg 00:54, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
M*A*S*H Whatlinkshere indicates quite a few links to the disambiguation page. However, it appears this is due to a bad link in the template used to show a M*A*S*H character. The problem is the template assumes a character is generic for both the film and the TV show. Should I just leave the disambiguation intact as the template's context is technically ambiguous itself? Example:
{{MASH character |image= |bgcolor=#c00 |fgcolor=#000 |rank=[[Corporal]] (formerly)<br>[[Sergeant]] (currently) |name=Klinger |gender=[[Male]] |hair=Black |eyes=Brown |home=[[Toledo, Ohio|Toledo]], [[Ohio]], [[United States|USA]] |film=None |tv=[[Jamie Farr]] }}
I'm working through Vatican now... the distinction between the
Vatican (state) and the
Holy See can be subtle, but never more so than when you have to decide just which one was responsible for sending immortal monster hunter Van Helsing after Dracula in the popular movie...?
~
Veledan |
Talk |
c
.
15:12, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
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Archive 1 | Archive 2 | Archive 3 | → | Archive 5 |
![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 | Archive 2 | Archive 3 | → | Archive 5 |
Is it acceptable to edit user pages to fix links to disambiguation pages? I don't want to offend if this is a no-no Sannse 16:32 Jan 22, 2003 (UTC)
The Prince page is not really a disambiguation page, just a list of definitions of the various ways a prince can be a prince, along with a disambiguation block re: Prince Rogers Nelson and The Prince. However, since people are likely to keep linking to [[Prince]] when they mean [[Prince Rogers Nelson]], I'm inclined to leave it on the Wikipedia:Links_to_disambiguating_pages list so that links to it get listed here and reviewed every now and then.... what say others? Catherine 03:00 Mar 25, 2003 (UTC)
How do I edit the Esperanto Wiki to redirect Comic? Skeetch 03:09, Oct 29, 2003 (UTC)
It may make more sense to remove Vector from the list of disambiguation pages. It contains pertinent discussion on the subject and there already exists a Vector (disambiguation) page. Skeetch 20:19, Nov 10, 2003 (UTC)
How does the search work when there is a redirect to the disambiguation page? Will it count links in to both pages? Or do both pages have be listed separately on the Wikipedia:Links to disambiguating pages page? Rossami 02:45, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)
For the new list I have also included all pages linked from "Wikipedia:Multiple-place names A" and the other 25 letters. There are quite a few of those that are not really disambiguation pages though. Just remove those that are not from this list. Andre Engels 09:08, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Gah! Function was just converted into a disambiguation page. There's 549 links to it!! This'll be a job to convert. Granted, they did a really good job of constructing the disambiguation page, but I'm not sure page history was correctly copied, and I'm not convinced it should go here, rather than function (disambiguation) or something (which is a redirect). (Would this be less work to fix?) Any comments on this before I start working on fixing these? -- ssd 04:41, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I'm slowly working on it. Feel free to join in!
By the way, does someone/something periodically run the automated update process? How often does this happen?
- Andre Engels 10:37, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Should we remove links from the list only when ALL links are fixed (except redirects and appropriate links)? Should User:Talk and Talk: links be fixed as well? I removed Car and Current because the only remaining links are Talk, User or Redirect links. Is this appropriate? -- Golbez 09:01, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
I notice that a lot of the entries people finished left in with a comment "needs constant watching". Considering that this page isn't getting regenerated very often, perhaps it should be split into links needing disambiguation and disambiguation pages fixed but frequently needing rechecks, where stuff doesn't get deleted from the latter... -- ssd 05:15, 20 May 2004 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages maintenance. Josh Parris ✉ 01:03, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
AIUI, now that we're on MediaWiki 1.3, the links table works differently, and so tho above code fragments won't work - so, presumably, you need to do a nested SELECT to work out the article_id for the page
Wikipedia:Links to disambiguating pages (?)...
James F.
(talk)
19:45, 30 May 2004 (UTC)
What does Yugoslavia 243 do here? It is not a dab page. Mikkalai 03:40, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I have done some work on "script", but there is still a problem. There is no article for a comic book script or a theater script. What sould I do with these? Should I remove the wikilinks? Should I create wikilinks to non-existing articles and hope they get written by someone else? JoaoRicardo 01:10, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I have been working on punk now for a reasonable amount of time now, but it seems that i keep running into quite a few of the same links as before. DOes anyone know the reason why?? Jaberwocky6669 03:24, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)
(Moved from article)
I have to stay awake to wait for someone who will be showing up around 2 AM, so I figured I'd keep myself occupied with something productive. With any luck I should be finished tomorrow morning.
albeit slightly behind schedule. Yay! CAPS LOCK 07:16, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I was working on the disney disambiguation page, and found that there was a template sitting on 200 pages or so that linked to the page. So I tracked down the template and changed the link to "The walt disney company".
I thought 'problem solved', and it should have been. However, many of these pages, including Captain Loyal Hawk, are still listed as linking to the disambiguation page, even though visiting the page itself shows no links to the disambiguation page. What am I missing?-- Measure July 6, 2005 17:44 (UTC)
What is the proper way to do these musical tempo disambig links? For instance:
These are listed together in many different symphony pages as the names of movements. However, the disambig pages for these all lead to Tempo. It would seem odd to give a list of links of these movement names, and have them all link to the same Tempo page. In order to maintain unique links in case these links are differentiated in the future for whatever reason, should I link them to Allegro_(Tempo), Largo_(Tempo), etc, and then set up those pages as redirects to Tempo? Or should I just not worry about it, and link them all directly? - Marvin01 | talk 8 July 2005 18:49 (UTC)
It is more important to have links disambiguated right than have them disambiguated fast. I just checked ten links on a word I was disambiguating slowly and which a disambiguator had raced past me on. One was probably the wrong dab, one almost certainly a suboptimal dab, one I had left ambiguous intentionally because the web leaves it unclear whether a general or specific sense is meant. Four of them ignored errors in the same sentence, and most left clumsy prose.
I don't think this dabber was in any way to blame; but do remember that a link, once dabbed, may never be looked at again. Septentrionalis 02:17, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
Try disentangling nationalities from ethnicities in Involuntary settlements in the Soviet Union, preferably not one word at a time. Bo Lindbergh 03:02, July 23, 2005 (UTC)
Is there ever a time when it is better to remove the link entirely? I started to disambiguate "south" and one of the first links referred to the southern part of the state the article was about, call it "south Nebraska." Since, naturally, there is no article which covers south Nebraska, the link is useless. Or so it seems to me. – Shoaler ( talk) 16:14, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Most other versions of Wikipedia (other than English) have implemented a system of categories that users can add themselves to on their user page - the English wikipedia up until now has had a very tangled and minimal system of categories for this and has mostly used a series of lists on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians page. For example, the Wikipedia:Alphabetical list of Wikipedians, which has spawned many errors in the past and grown almost the point of not being manageable. This entire system should be replaced by categories, such as Category:Wikipedians and its subcategories such as Category:Wikipedians by location and its subcategories such as Category:Wikipedians in the United States (which would be the replacement for Wikipedia:Wikipedians/United States. Anybody who would like to lend a hand in converting these pages should refer to the changes that are slowly being made to Wikipedia:Wikipedians and the different emerging, afformentioned categories to find a starting place. Whenever a page in Wikipedia:Wikipedians is replaced, all links to that page should also be replaced with a link to the newly created category. Also, a hierarchy should be maintained among the categories (for example, Category:Wikipedians in Acadia had been tagged in the Category:Canadian Wikipedians category which is then tagged in the Category:Wikipedians by location category which is, in turn, tagged in the master Category:Wikipedians category.-- thereverendeg 17:53, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
A project page has been added for this - Wikipedia:User categorisation
-- thereverendeg 00:54, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
M*A*S*H Whatlinkshere indicates quite a few links to the disambiguation page. However, it appears this is due to a bad link in the template used to show a M*A*S*H character. The problem is the template assumes a character is generic for both the film and the TV show. Should I just leave the disambiguation intact as the template's context is technically ambiguous itself? Example:
{{MASH character |image= |bgcolor=#c00 |fgcolor=#000 |rank=[[Corporal]] (formerly)<br>[[Sergeant]] (currently) |name=Klinger |gender=[[Male]] |hair=Black |eyes=Brown |home=[[Toledo, Ohio|Toledo]], [[Ohio]], [[United States|USA]] |film=None |tv=[[Jamie Farr]] }}
I'm working through Vatican now... the distinction between the
Vatican (state) and the
Holy See can be subtle, but never more so than when you have to decide just which one was responsible for sending immortal monster hunter Van Helsing after Dracula in the popular movie...?
~
Veledan |
Talk |
c
.
15:12, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
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