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After some discussion (now on Talk:Breeching (boys)), I made Breeching a dab page. Help disambiguating the incoming links, and also improving the dab page, would be appreciated. -- Una Smith ( talk) 07:16, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
Not my idea, but figured some here might have an interest. See Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 December 20#Category:Ambiguous place names. older ≠ wiser 14:48, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
Could someone turn this into a proper disambig page? Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 20:35, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
We need more eyes on James Cary. Sesshomaru is insisting on including Jim Carrey on the disambiguation page as James Carrey, even though that's not the name he is known by. An attempt to discuss the matter on Sesshomaru's Talk page was removed without discussion. Little Red Riding Hood talk 06:25, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
Anima, a disambiguation page, happens to be a relatively common typo for anime, Japanese animation. I tried to find out what the consensus on linking from anima to anime would be in this case, but wasn't able to get any clear answers. Any thoughts? — Dino guy 1000 20:46, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
There's a red linked entry on this page which is missing a blue link mention, but I'm unsure which would serve best. Thoughts? Lord Sesshomaru ( talk • edits) 03:00, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
The page Moxon used to point to Moxon Huddersfield and I have now redirected it to Moxon (disambiguation). Ideally I would prefer to have the disambig page as the main page, but cannot remember the process, and the steps that I have taken are obviously incorrect. Guidance to the right process would be appreciated. Thx. -- billinghurst ( talk) 09:51, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
Who agrees that this should be merged to Batman (disambiguation)? I'd have done it by now, however, I'm not 100% comfortable performing this merger without some discussion. Lord Sesshomaru ( talk • edits) 02:04, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I think some disambiguation is required for Hydrogen line, Hydrogen lines and Hydrogen spectral series, but not sure of the best way to do it. There may be some other articles that could be put into an umbrella disambig page too. OrangeDog ( talk) 22:27, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
{{
for|the spectral series|Hydrogren spectral series}}
hatnote to
Hydrogen line. What are the issues with
Emission spectrum,
Atomic emission spectrum,
Emission spectrum (fluorescence spectroscopy) and
Molecular radiation? Are they also referred to as "Hydrogen line(s)"? --
JHunterJ (
talk) 11:51, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
I am confused by these REDIRECTs: Hans Müller-Einigen, Hans Müller (pentathlete), Hans Müller (CSU). They all redirect to Hans Müller; the pentathlete has a circular link on that target page. I couldn't find any guideline regarding REDIRECTs to disambiguation pages, but these seem confusing and misleading. I think they should all be deleted. Michael Bednarek ( talk) 11:33, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
Was there any point in moving Ed to this title? I couldn't find any legitimate reason for this so I tried to move it back, but am unable to do so. Is there some discussion I'm unaware of? Lord Sesshomaru ( talk • edits) 20:41, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
Can anyone verify the reference to CFN as a "notorious downtown street gang"? There seem to be no external references to this. link to CFN page —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.160.221.4 ( talk • contribs) 23:05, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
Should get disambiguation for Groschen, Grosch's law, Herb Grosch and maybe more. -- 82.212.30.135 ( talk) 15:56, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
Could an admin please move Thomas Brock (sculptor) back to Thomas Brock? It should be the primary dab, at least for now. Thanks. Viriditas ( talk) 09:22, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
I think I have gone and made a mess of this. I looked at the (disambiguation) page and decided it needed to be a redirect, or even {DB}. I removed the hatnote from Jim Jeffords, and went to edit Jim Jeffords (disambiguation), but found there was an inline comment about another Jim Jeffords (boxer) [redlink]. I think the redlink should be in, but that seems to conflict with MOS. Can someone wiser please help. Twiceuponatime ( talk) 09:40, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
Before I go in and do things, seeking opinion from fellow DBers. With Alexander Grant my preference would be to move that page possibly to Alexander Grant (administrator) and then build a disambig on the straight page. Of the links, they are basically all to the LieutGov navbox. Any better suggestions? -- billinghurst ( talk) 12:19, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
Could someone take a look at the article Fasa on the Iranian city. The present hatnote is longer than the actual article. Is this an instance where creating a dab page, perhaps FASA (disambiguation), would be appropriate? Aramgar ( talk) 16:33, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
I would appreciate thoughts on how the two Alf Bentleys should be disambiguated. They were at Alf Bentley (footballer born 1887) and Alf Bentley (footballer born 1931), but have been moved to Alf Bentley (1887–1940) and Alf Bentley (1931–1996) respectively, with the reasoning that "footballer" does nothing to disambiguate (since both are footballers) and that both years of death are known. However a talk item at WT:FOOTY suggests moving them back to the original names. Note - there's also Alfred Mulock Bentley, but I guess he should only be considered in terms of the Alfred Bentley dab page. Thanks. -- Jameboy ( talk) 07:05, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
Ok, I'm being really lazy asking here instead of looking it up, but doesn't it require there be more than one article for a DAB to link to? I have the page DISD in mind in particular, which DABs to Dallas Independent School District, among no others. And when I say I'm being lazy, I mean, I don't know how to fix it, if I should fix it, and I'm not going to find out. But if it needs to be fixed, maybe someone else will fix it. (hint hint) ;) Eaglizard ( talk) 23:00, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
I am guessing that these two pages Founder and Founders should be merged and displayed as the one disambig page. -- billinghurst ( talk) 12:20, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
I know we are not supposed to have disam pages for dicdefs, but I think there is room for a few exceptions, Inshore, Ensure and Insure for example. If we accept that position, then I think we need a {{ Homonym}} (or {{ Homophone disambiguation}} if we want to be really pedantic!) disam template. I would put one together if I had the skills, but I don't. Any takers? Thanks. – ukexpat ( talk) 01:19, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
I would like to start the discussion about greater inclusion of the Special:PrefixIndex/ {aka {{ lookfrom}} and Special:Search?search=intitle: {{ intitle}} on disambiguation pages.
I am seeing more and more the addition of general terms onto disambiguation pages, where they add a term that includes the keyword, though it is not a disambiguation, as the full phrase does not need disambiguation. I think that this is that people are often unsuccessful in searches, and do not have a ready means to more easily find something, or know the correct means to search to isolate their result. I would like to propose that in a SEE ALSO section of many (all?) of our disambiguation pages that we consider adding both or one of the links
{{lookfrom|TERM}} | All pages with titles beginning with TERM |
{{intitle|TERM}} | All pages with titles containing TERM |
-- billinghurst ( talk) 06:26, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
Someone has requested Empire Builder be moved to Empire Builder (Amtrak), and then to turn Empire Builder into a disambiguation page. Please see Talk:Empire Builder -- Tesscass ( talk) 18:20, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
I have started a discussion on Khabarovsk being renamed Khabarovsk (city). speednat ( talk) 19:31, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi,
I'm having some difficulties with DAB links in templates. I fixed a link to the Punjab DAB a couple of days ago in template:Airports in India but I'm still getting some Indian Airport articles listed on What links here for Punjab. I can't find any Punjab links on the pages. Is it just taking a while for the change to filter through all the articles?
I'm also hoping that someone's familiar with template syntax. I think there may be a problem with template:Infobox Indian Jurisdiction. I asked WikiProject:India for help and one of their members altered the template so that the links in the infobox to Punjab direct to Punjab (India) rather than the DAB page. But for some reason they're still showing in What links here for the DAB page. Is this a time issue as well? Ka Faraq Gatri ( talk) 23:00, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
At the thread AndrewHowse mentioned, here, I posted a workaround. In short: off Wikipedia, in a text editor use sort and diff tools to filter out all the transcluded articles, paste the resulting short list into a sandbox or preview, then use your favorite dab tool to fix articles on the short list. The transcluded "ghost" links remain on WhatLinksHere, but you can ignore them. -- Una Smith ( talk) 18:49, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
On Talk:Bird of paradise (disambiguation)#Requested move is a debate over which of two candidates, a bird family or a plant family, or neither, is the primary topic for Bird of paradise. -- Una Smith ( talk) 18:32, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
I regularly disambiguate Hungarian and due to its growing length and irrelevance to disambig took the axe to the plethora of Hungarian blahblah terms that had accumulated. I have place them on the talk page for the moment in the hope that someone will get miffed and build a List of terms using Hungarian . Has anyone seen something similar and point one out to me? Otherwise a recommendation of what to do with the morass of links. -- billinghurst ( talk) 12:27, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
{{
lookfrom|Hungarian}}
and {{
intitle|Hungarian}}
in a see also section on the page. I agree with basic gist of your removals though. The page should only list subjects that are commonly known (or might be confused with) the precise term "Hungarian".
older ≠
wiser 13:05, 20 January 2009 (UTCWhen disambiguating links, often I find it necessary to compile a list of the "usual suspects". And I expect other editors and readers would find the same list useful. See for example Weymouth and Enfield. The concept of a "set index page", as distinct from a disambiguation page, in many cases seems less than useful. Billinghurst's idea of "usual suspect" vs "noise", in contrast, is very useful, but I cannot think how to codify it. This is something that emerges from the work of disambiguating links. -- Una Smith ( talk) 18:42, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
In disambig pages such as French, German, Italian, etc etc, I think the language is the overwhelmingly most likely thing for people to be searching for when they type these terms. This is because a term such as "French" by itself can be a noun referring to the language, but the word by itself isn't a complete phrase synonymous with most of the other titles. (At the very least it would have to be "the French" for French people.) So I suggest putting the language in bold on all of these disambig pages, to make it quick to find the most popular option, particularly as some of these disambig pages are now quite long. NB I am not necessarily suggesting always putting them at the top of the list, as sometimes the definition refers back to a country mentioned in a previous item. — Alan ✉ 14:04, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
Lebrón (with accent) is a dab page, not just for Lebróns, but also for LeBron James and others. But Lebron (no accent) redirects to LeBron James. Is James *so* famous that I should just put a "for" header on his page, or should Lebron instead redirect to the existing dab page? For that matter, should the primary dab page be with or without the accent? ( LeBron also redirects to James, but that seems fine.) Ma t c hups 17:30, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
I found this to be a rather questionable edit. Any thoughts on how to deal with situations like these? Lord Sesshomaru ( talk • edits) 02:57, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
This search term currently leads to a disambiguation page with only two people on it, one a minor actor from Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and the other a much more notable major league baseball player. Is it possible to remove the disambiguation page to have the search term go directly to Brian McCann (baseball) while keeping the statement at the top of McCann (baseball)'s page that mentions the actor? Atlantabravz ( talk) 02:45, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
The new parameters for {{
disambig}} are now active (see the template documentation for details). For example, on a dab page that includes multiple geographic items AND other items, you can use {{
disambig|geo}}
to put the page in both categories.--
Kotniski (
talk) 08:57, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
The {{Hndis-cleanup}} template still uses the old ambox placed at the bottom, rather than the note in the as used in the {{Disambig-cleanup}} template. I reckon it should also be moved over to the new style, not least because it's sat on a hatbox. — Sasuke Sarutobi ( talk) 00:13, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
I've had a search through the archives but can't find anything specifically relating to this issue -- for every Foo School there is nearly always another use of the name in another school as Foo High School, Foo Grammar School, Foo Girls' School etc... should these be combined?
For example, I've been working on cleanup for St. Mary's School disambiguation page... but there is also a separate dab page for St. Mary's Primary School, St. Mary's College (where college may mean higher education or elementary school or anything in between), St. Mary's Academy (ditto), etc., and each of these schools will often just be known as "St Mary's School" anyway. I'd be inclined to combine these dab pages and list all the schools equally in St. Mary's School. Anyone else have any thoughts or pointers on this? Fattonyni ( talk) 14:01, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
See also St. Mary's Secondary School, I'm sure there are more... Fattonyni ( talk) 14:06, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
I suggest that it might be a good idea to merge these three pages:
(and any other variations that I've missed) into a single page covering all of them (one section per spelling), with redirects from all spelling variations pointing to that one page. Mitch Ames ( talk) 08:31, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
*There's only one use of
Gutenburg, the Swiss village at
Gutenburg, Switzerland. So the question is, how much do we cater for mis-spellings? I suggest one of two options:
In case you haven't found it, there's a useful new facility in "Search": if you input "intitle:fooforename foosurname" you get all the articles with those two words in the title (ie including "fooforename initials foosurname", "fooforename foosurname (disambiguator)", etc), with much less noise of other articles than if you just do a plain search. Can be useful in finding entries which below on a {{ hndis}} page. PamD ( talk) 17:43, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi! I'd like to draw your attention to the new WikiProject coordinators' working group, an effort to bring both official and unofficial WikiProject coordinators together so that the projects can more easily develop consensus and collaborate. This group has been created after discussion regarding possible changes to the A-Class review system, and that may be one of the first things discussed by interested coordinators.
All designated project coordinators are invited to join this working group. If your project hasn't formally designated any editors as coordinators, but you are someone who regularly deals with coordination tasks in the project, please feel free to join as well. - Drilnoth ( talk) 00:33, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
Not sure if this is the right place but I'm considering moving Maurice Greene (athlete) to the main namespace and adding a hatnote for Maurice Greene (composer). Does anyone disagree? Sillyfolkboy ( talk) 07:07, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
You know, I really fail to see why a dab page needs to exist. Some hatnoting can solve this. Thoughts? Lord Sesshomaru ( talk • edits) 03:06, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
What's the guideline for including citations in disambig pages? An editor has included cites in (some of) the entries at American, but I fear this has disfigured the page and made it harder to navigate. He's cited nothing that's not found in any dictionary.-- Cúchullain t/ c 22:23, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
William Poole has a hatnote leading to William Poole (disambiguation), which is a redirect to Poole (surname) (which includes a good handful of Williams, way down the list). Is this an acceptable way of doing, or should there be separate dab pages for "William Poole" and similar shared names? PamD ( talk) 00:16, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Rappaport is a strange page, doubling as an article about the name and as a disambiguation page for people with the name. What should be done about it? Shreevatsa ( talk) 18:50, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Discussion of the appropriate form of a disambiguation entry for items appearing within other articles is occurring at Talk:Morion. -- Rogerb67 ( talk) 05:50, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
There is now a discussion about how the disambig, set index and name boxes should categorise pages. See the discussion over at Template talk:Dmbox#Category:All disambiguation pages.
-- David Göthberg ( talk) 09:19, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi, me again. Could someone turn this into a proper disambig page? Thanks. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 20:45, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
![]() | 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 10 | ← | Archive 13 | Archive 14 | Archive 15 | Archive 16 | Archive 17 | → | Archive 20 |
After some discussion (now on Talk:Breeching (boys)), I made Breeching a dab page. Help disambiguating the incoming links, and also improving the dab page, would be appreciated. -- Una Smith ( talk) 07:16, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
Not my idea, but figured some here might have an interest. See Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 December 20#Category:Ambiguous place names. older ≠ wiser 14:48, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
Could someone turn this into a proper disambig page? Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 20:35, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
We need more eyes on James Cary. Sesshomaru is insisting on including Jim Carrey on the disambiguation page as James Carrey, even though that's not the name he is known by. An attempt to discuss the matter on Sesshomaru's Talk page was removed without discussion. Little Red Riding Hood talk 06:25, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
Anima, a disambiguation page, happens to be a relatively common typo for anime, Japanese animation. I tried to find out what the consensus on linking from anima to anime would be in this case, but wasn't able to get any clear answers. Any thoughts? — Dino guy 1000 20:46, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
There's a red linked entry on this page which is missing a blue link mention, but I'm unsure which would serve best. Thoughts? Lord Sesshomaru ( talk • edits) 03:00, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
The page Moxon used to point to Moxon Huddersfield and I have now redirected it to Moxon (disambiguation). Ideally I would prefer to have the disambig page as the main page, but cannot remember the process, and the steps that I have taken are obviously incorrect. Guidance to the right process would be appreciated. Thx. -- billinghurst ( talk) 09:51, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
Who agrees that this should be merged to Batman (disambiguation)? I'd have done it by now, however, I'm not 100% comfortable performing this merger without some discussion. Lord Sesshomaru ( talk • edits) 02:04, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I think some disambiguation is required for Hydrogen line, Hydrogen lines and Hydrogen spectral series, but not sure of the best way to do it. There may be some other articles that could be put into an umbrella disambig page too. OrangeDog ( talk) 22:27, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
{{
for|the spectral series|Hydrogren spectral series}}
hatnote to
Hydrogen line. What are the issues with
Emission spectrum,
Atomic emission spectrum,
Emission spectrum (fluorescence spectroscopy) and
Molecular radiation? Are they also referred to as "Hydrogen line(s)"? --
JHunterJ (
talk) 11:51, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
I am confused by these REDIRECTs: Hans Müller-Einigen, Hans Müller (pentathlete), Hans Müller (CSU). They all redirect to Hans Müller; the pentathlete has a circular link on that target page. I couldn't find any guideline regarding REDIRECTs to disambiguation pages, but these seem confusing and misleading. I think they should all be deleted. Michael Bednarek ( talk) 11:33, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
Was there any point in moving Ed to this title? I couldn't find any legitimate reason for this so I tried to move it back, but am unable to do so. Is there some discussion I'm unaware of? Lord Sesshomaru ( talk • edits) 20:41, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
Can anyone verify the reference to CFN as a "notorious downtown street gang"? There seem to be no external references to this. link to CFN page —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.160.221.4 ( talk • contribs) 23:05, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
Should get disambiguation for Groschen, Grosch's law, Herb Grosch and maybe more. -- 82.212.30.135 ( talk) 15:56, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
Could an admin please move Thomas Brock (sculptor) back to Thomas Brock? It should be the primary dab, at least for now. Thanks. Viriditas ( talk) 09:22, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
I think I have gone and made a mess of this. I looked at the (disambiguation) page and decided it needed to be a redirect, or even {DB}. I removed the hatnote from Jim Jeffords, and went to edit Jim Jeffords (disambiguation), but found there was an inline comment about another Jim Jeffords (boxer) [redlink]. I think the redlink should be in, but that seems to conflict with MOS. Can someone wiser please help. Twiceuponatime ( talk) 09:40, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
Before I go in and do things, seeking opinion from fellow DBers. With Alexander Grant my preference would be to move that page possibly to Alexander Grant (administrator) and then build a disambig on the straight page. Of the links, they are basically all to the LieutGov navbox. Any better suggestions? -- billinghurst ( talk) 12:19, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
Could someone take a look at the article Fasa on the Iranian city. The present hatnote is longer than the actual article. Is this an instance where creating a dab page, perhaps FASA (disambiguation), would be appropriate? Aramgar ( talk) 16:33, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
I would appreciate thoughts on how the two Alf Bentleys should be disambiguated. They were at Alf Bentley (footballer born 1887) and Alf Bentley (footballer born 1931), but have been moved to Alf Bentley (1887–1940) and Alf Bentley (1931–1996) respectively, with the reasoning that "footballer" does nothing to disambiguate (since both are footballers) and that both years of death are known. However a talk item at WT:FOOTY suggests moving them back to the original names. Note - there's also Alfred Mulock Bentley, but I guess he should only be considered in terms of the Alfred Bentley dab page. Thanks. -- Jameboy ( talk) 07:05, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
Ok, I'm being really lazy asking here instead of looking it up, but doesn't it require there be more than one article for a DAB to link to? I have the page DISD in mind in particular, which DABs to Dallas Independent School District, among no others. And when I say I'm being lazy, I mean, I don't know how to fix it, if I should fix it, and I'm not going to find out. But if it needs to be fixed, maybe someone else will fix it. (hint hint) ;) Eaglizard ( talk) 23:00, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
I am guessing that these two pages Founder and Founders should be merged and displayed as the one disambig page. -- billinghurst ( talk) 12:20, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
I know we are not supposed to have disam pages for dicdefs, but I think there is room for a few exceptions, Inshore, Ensure and Insure for example. If we accept that position, then I think we need a {{ Homonym}} (or {{ Homophone disambiguation}} if we want to be really pedantic!) disam template. I would put one together if I had the skills, but I don't. Any takers? Thanks. – ukexpat ( talk) 01:19, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
I would like to start the discussion about greater inclusion of the Special:PrefixIndex/ {aka {{ lookfrom}} and Special:Search?search=intitle: {{ intitle}} on disambiguation pages.
I am seeing more and more the addition of general terms onto disambiguation pages, where they add a term that includes the keyword, though it is not a disambiguation, as the full phrase does not need disambiguation. I think that this is that people are often unsuccessful in searches, and do not have a ready means to more easily find something, or know the correct means to search to isolate their result. I would like to propose that in a SEE ALSO section of many (all?) of our disambiguation pages that we consider adding both or one of the links
{{lookfrom|TERM}} | All pages with titles beginning with TERM |
{{intitle|TERM}} | All pages with titles containing TERM |
-- billinghurst ( talk) 06:26, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
Someone has requested Empire Builder be moved to Empire Builder (Amtrak), and then to turn Empire Builder into a disambiguation page. Please see Talk:Empire Builder -- Tesscass ( talk) 18:20, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
I have started a discussion on Khabarovsk being renamed Khabarovsk (city). speednat ( talk) 19:31, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi,
I'm having some difficulties with DAB links in templates. I fixed a link to the Punjab DAB a couple of days ago in template:Airports in India but I'm still getting some Indian Airport articles listed on What links here for Punjab. I can't find any Punjab links on the pages. Is it just taking a while for the change to filter through all the articles?
I'm also hoping that someone's familiar with template syntax. I think there may be a problem with template:Infobox Indian Jurisdiction. I asked WikiProject:India for help and one of their members altered the template so that the links in the infobox to Punjab direct to Punjab (India) rather than the DAB page. But for some reason they're still showing in What links here for the DAB page. Is this a time issue as well? Ka Faraq Gatri ( talk) 23:00, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
At the thread AndrewHowse mentioned, here, I posted a workaround. In short: off Wikipedia, in a text editor use sort and diff tools to filter out all the transcluded articles, paste the resulting short list into a sandbox or preview, then use your favorite dab tool to fix articles on the short list. The transcluded "ghost" links remain on WhatLinksHere, but you can ignore them. -- Una Smith ( talk) 18:49, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
On Talk:Bird of paradise (disambiguation)#Requested move is a debate over which of two candidates, a bird family or a plant family, or neither, is the primary topic for Bird of paradise. -- Una Smith ( talk) 18:32, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
I regularly disambiguate Hungarian and due to its growing length and irrelevance to disambig took the axe to the plethora of Hungarian blahblah terms that had accumulated. I have place them on the talk page for the moment in the hope that someone will get miffed and build a List of terms using Hungarian . Has anyone seen something similar and point one out to me? Otherwise a recommendation of what to do with the morass of links. -- billinghurst ( talk) 12:27, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
{{
lookfrom|Hungarian}}
and {{
intitle|Hungarian}}
in a see also section on the page. I agree with basic gist of your removals though. The page should only list subjects that are commonly known (or might be confused with) the precise term "Hungarian".
older ≠
wiser 13:05, 20 January 2009 (UTCWhen disambiguating links, often I find it necessary to compile a list of the "usual suspects". And I expect other editors and readers would find the same list useful. See for example Weymouth and Enfield. The concept of a "set index page", as distinct from a disambiguation page, in many cases seems less than useful. Billinghurst's idea of "usual suspect" vs "noise", in contrast, is very useful, but I cannot think how to codify it. This is something that emerges from the work of disambiguating links. -- Una Smith ( talk) 18:42, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
In disambig pages such as French, German, Italian, etc etc, I think the language is the overwhelmingly most likely thing for people to be searching for when they type these terms. This is because a term such as "French" by itself can be a noun referring to the language, but the word by itself isn't a complete phrase synonymous with most of the other titles. (At the very least it would have to be "the French" for French people.) So I suggest putting the language in bold on all of these disambig pages, to make it quick to find the most popular option, particularly as some of these disambig pages are now quite long. NB I am not necessarily suggesting always putting them at the top of the list, as sometimes the definition refers back to a country mentioned in a previous item. — Alan ✉ 14:04, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
Lebrón (with accent) is a dab page, not just for Lebróns, but also for LeBron James and others. But Lebron (no accent) redirects to LeBron James. Is James *so* famous that I should just put a "for" header on his page, or should Lebron instead redirect to the existing dab page? For that matter, should the primary dab page be with or without the accent? ( LeBron also redirects to James, but that seems fine.) Ma t c hups 17:30, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
I found this to be a rather questionable edit. Any thoughts on how to deal with situations like these? Lord Sesshomaru ( talk • edits) 02:57, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
This search term currently leads to a disambiguation page with only two people on it, one a minor actor from Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and the other a much more notable major league baseball player. Is it possible to remove the disambiguation page to have the search term go directly to Brian McCann (baseball) while keeping the statement at the top of McCann (baseball)'s page that mentions the actor? Atlantabravz ( talk) 02:45, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
The new parameters for {{
disambig}} are now active (see the template documentation for details). For example, on a dab page that includes multiple geographic items AND other items, you can use {{
disambig|geo}}
to put the page in both categories.--
Kotniski (
talk) 08:57, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
The {{Hndis-cleanup}} template still uses the old ambox placed at the bottom, rather than the note in the as used in the {{Disambig-cleanup}} template. I reckon it should also be moved over to the new style, not least because it's sat on a hatbox. — Sasuke Sarutobi ( talk) 00:13, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
I've had a search through the archives but can't find anything specifically relating to this issue -- for every Foo School there is nearly always another use of the name in another school as Foo High School, Foo Grammar School, Foo Girls' School etc... should these be combined?
For example, I've been working on cleanup for St. Mary's School disambiguation page... but there is also a separate dab page for St. Mary's Primary School, St. Mary's College (where college may mean higher education or elementary school or anything in between), St. Mary's Academy (ditto), etc., and each of these schools will often just be known as "St Mary's School" anyway. I'd be inclined to combine these dab pages and list all the schools equally in St. Mary's School. Anyone else have any thoughts or pointers on this? Fattonyni ( talk) 14:01, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
See also St. Mary's Secondary School, I'm sure there are more... Fattonyni ( talk) 14:06, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
I suggest that it might be a good idea to merge these three pages:
(and any other variations that I've missed) into a single page covering all of them (one section per spelling), with redirects from all spelling variations pointing to that one page. Mitch Ames ( talk) 08:31, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
*There's only one use of
Gutenburg, the Swiss village at
Gutenburg, Switzerland. So the question is, how much do we cater for mis-spellings? I suggest one of two options:
In case you haven't found it, there's a useful new facility in "Search": if you input "intitle:fooforename foosurname" you get all the articles with those two words in the title (ie including "fooforename initials foosurname", "fooforename foosurname (disambiguator)", etc), with much less noise of other articles than if you just do a plain search. Can be useful in finding entries which below on a {{ hndis}} page. PamD ( talk) 17:43, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi! I'd like to draw your attention to the new WikiProject coordinators' working group, an effort to bring both official and unofficial WikiProject coordinators together so that the projects can more easily develop consensus and collaborate. This group has been created after discussion regarding possible changes to the A-Class review system, and that may be one of the first things discussed by interested coordinators.
All designated project coordinators are invited to join this working group. If your project hasn't formally designated any editors as coordinators, but you are someone who regularly deals with coordination tasks in the project, please feel free to join as well. - Drilnoth ( talk) 00:33, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
Not sure if this is the right place but I'm considering moving Maurice Greene (athlete) to the main namespace and adding a hatnote for Maurice Greene (composer). Does anyone disagree? Sillyfolkboy ( talk) 07:07, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
You know, I really fail to see why a dab page needs to exist. Some hatnoting can solve this. Thoughts? Lord Sesshomaru ( talk • edits) 03:06, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
What's the guideline for including citations in disambig pages? An editor has included cites in (some of) the entries at American, but I fear this has disfigured the page and made it harder to navigate. He's cited nothing that's not found in any dictionary.-- Cúchullain t/ c 22:23, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
William Poole has a hatnote leading to William Poole (disambiguation), which is a redirect to Poole (surname) (which includes a good handful of Williams, way down the list). Is this an acceptable way of doing, or should there be separate dab pages for "William Poole" and similar shared names? PamD ( talk) 00:16, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Rappaport is a strange page, doubling as an article about the name and as a disambiguation page for people with the name. What should be done about it? Shreevatsa ( talk) 18:50, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Discussion of the appropriate form of a disambiguation entry for items appearing within other articles is occurring at Talk:Morion. -- Rogerb67 ( talk) 05:50, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
There is now a discussion about how the disambig, set index and name boxes should categorise pages. See the discussion over at Template talk:Dmbox#Category:All disambiguation pages.
-- David Göthberg ( talk) 09:19, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi, me again. Could someone turn this into a proper disambig page? Thanks. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 20:45, 3 March 2009 (UTC)