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Quick gathering of opinions: is there a point in basketball (disambiguation)?
The film entry is a redlink, and to be honest, I don't think it'll ever earn itself an article, at least not in the foreseeable future. "The Basketball Diaries", in my opinion, has no risk of confusion — someone that wants to find out about "The Basketball Diaries" will probably search for "The Basketball Diaries" or perhaps "Basketball Diaries"; most people if not all would be able to figure out a mere "basketball" won't get them anywhere in a search. The final entry, "BASEketball", has a different spelling and I find this unlikely to be confused with the sport.
Just wanted to see what others think. Neonumbers 12:38, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
I would be grateful for advice on issues concerning Ptolemy (disambiguation). I have summarised the editing history and centralised links for discussions at Talk:Ptolemy (disambiguation). If you have any advice or comments, please leave them there. Thanks. Carcharoth 00:39, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
[Refactored and edited discussions copied here from the Help Desk and Category talk:Lists of ambiguous human names - please note I have copied these comments - apologies if this breaches any etiquette, though I think refactoring like this is OK.]
The Leonardo (disambiguation) page has a bit allowing people to see all articles starting "Leonardo", or rather to see a list of AllPages starting from Leonardo, as seen here. This is the first time I've seen this, though the Leonardo disambiguation talk page led me to Robert, which does look a bit overdone, but also has the "AllPages" link. My question is whether this is a common practice, or whether it falls foul of the "no self-reference" rule about not linking to non-article space in Wikipedia (creates problems with mirror/redistribution sites)? Carcharoth 18:57, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
[end quote]
So is using Special:AllPages a bad idea? It is a useful tool to find articles to put on disambig pages, but it seems lazy not to list them on the page itself. If the complaint is "there are too many", then that suggests something is wrong anyway. Carcharoth 01:59, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
No, Kusma, you are missing the point. No links to any form of Special Pages are acceptable. One of the reason for WP:ASR is because Wikipedia content is widely distributed under the GDFL to other websites. A good example is Answers.com. This link will hopefully show you their version of the Wikipedia disambiguation of the name Leonardo (you may need to scroll down the page): answers.com disambiguation page for Leonardo. As you can see, the "See also: List of all pages beginning with "Leonardo"" link does not work there. I doubt it works on other mirror/redistribution websites either.
Which brings me to another point. The pervasiveness of Wikipedia results on web searches should be emphasised as widely as possible to all editors of Wikipedia - maybe even in the editing boilerplate text. I fear that people who are not aware of how widely the content is redistributed will "check facts" using web pages that are just regurgitating the thing they are trying to check! A horrendous exercise in circularity. Carcharoth 02:55, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
The template and the category title read like they should be used for "ambiguous numbers". I think that means only 666 (disambiguation) or 2600 and similar pages. However, the category currently mostly consists of disambiguation pages whose title starts with a number. I fail to see how any of
qualify as "number-oriented articles". These articles do fit the category description, though: "This category consists of titles that begin with numbers." So should we amend the template, or recategorize some of the articles? Kusma (討論) 22:35, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
This page of titles that begin with numbers is a disambiguation page....
I'm pretty sure i recall at least a discussion (possibly a guideline) regarding putting a year (or vital stats or range of reign) in paren as the Dab'g suffix on an ambig name. IIRC the practice was at least denounced and not defended. But i haven't found again anything about it. Help!
--
Jerzy•
t
16:41, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
BTW, my use of a variation on that (see
The boxers Davey Moore and
Davey Moore) when i broke up a joint bio, seems to have gone unchallenged for going on a year; it continues to strike me as a rare (and perhaps enlightening) exception to the rule that there is virtually always something better than dates to distinguish people. IMO, this case justifies it bcz the time periods are more likely to be both recalled and clear (for any but serious fans) than anything else (like weight class or form of trauma ("(beaten)" vs "(crushed)"?). Comments welcome.
--
Jerzy•
t
16:41, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm posting my three (initial) 'graphs for this section at both Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography#Dab'g suffixes for Bios and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Disambiguation#Dab'g suffixes for Bios. If someone comments, it would probably be good if the first one would also put a note at the top of the section at the other location, urging that the responses be centralized. (Also good:
--
Jerzy•
t
16:41, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
Does rationing count as a disambiguation page? If not, is there a suitable category to put it in as an article that gives an overview of the use of a term in many different subject areas? Carcharoth 13:18, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is the appropriate forum for a help request, so I apologize if I'm out of place. Regardless, I have discovered there is a need for a disambiguation page for Marcus Claudius Marcellus. If you follow the link, the details are in the discussion page. Thank you for your time.-- ScottieB 00:59, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
I came across WTF and it didn't seem to still need cleanup, but I have little expierence in this area, so I thought I'd ask here. JesseW, the juggling janitor 22:07, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Disambiguating links to Bosnia (disambiguation) is pretty difficult, because it's hard to tell which ones should point to Bosnia and Hercegovina, and which to plain old Bosnia. What should we do about this tough case? -- Smack ( talk) 03:06, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
As a newbie, I thought I should ask for help on this: Sths currently redirects to Santa Teresa High School. However, the abbreviation is also used by Sydney technical high school. Can the redirect be removed, or changed into a disambiguation page with links to both pages? TIA Winterelf 03:57, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
On Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation#Primary topic links, I'm proposing to remove some confusing (and apparently often ignored) sentences from the guideline. Any comments are welcome. If there are no objections, I will remove the sentences after a week or so. older ≠ wiser 14:10, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm starting to tidy up the Democracy (disambiguation), and would appreciate some input. I've removed some links such as First Party System, but they are being defended as articles people interested in democracy need "disambiguated". This seems (to me) to clearly be what a disambiguation page is not, but some other views would be appreciated. The discussion thread is at Talk:Democracy (disambiguation)#Weeding_the_links- David Oberst 16:38, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
I was going to create a new article about the writer Lisa Tucker (well-known novelist of young adult literature), but the Lisa Tucker currently on Wikipedia is the American Idol contestant/singer. First thought was- make Lisa Tucker (disambiguation) and use the singer as the main Lisa Tucker. On second thought, they both seem to share equal, average, notability on Google search result pages. In fact, the writer Lisa Tucker has more news that override the singer Lisa Tucker (whom, the only news the singer has is when American Idol or Star Search is referenced.) What should be done? Should the current Lisa Tucker be moved to Lisa Tucker (singer)? Or should a new page, Lisa Tucker (disambiguation) be created? User:Arual 20:40, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
This is an embarrassing example of "We forgot!"...
It's something called "McQueen". In light of recent movies, what does that mean...
Lightning McQueen.
And somebody forgot to put it at McQueen (a disambiguation page).
I did it because:
Imagine. Somebody is looking for the Lightning McQueen article, and they just type "McQueen". The disambig that comes from there did not have Lightning McQueen, thus being a dead-end to the search. The article Lightning McQueen existed, but it now is also linked from the aforementioned disambiguation page. - Tracker <small>([[User talk:TrackerTV|>talk)</small>]] 02:41, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
In case you don't have Category:Disambiguation on your watchlist, there's some discussion at Category talk:Disambiguation#Secondary disambiguations of some new subcategories which may be of interest (or concern). older ≠ wiser 22:07, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
I looked through the talk archives and couldn't find the answer. Do we use {{ disambig-cleanup}} for pages with style problems only, or do we also use it for pages that (pretty much) follow MoS:DP but are missing content. For example, see Orlando. -- Usgnus 07:18, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
Anyone else want to comment at Talk:Grass? -- Usgnus 15:14, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
I seem to be getting into an edit war over whether universities should be listed above capital cities at Georgetown. Any advice from those more experienced? Also look at the talk:Georgetown talk page for a related issue. Thanks. -- Scott Davis Talk 23:31, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
OK. I'm not sure who I should talk to about this, but I think there should be a disambiguation page for the phrase "Romana". It should definitely include the two most obvious choices: Pax Romana and Romana, the companion of The Doctor. But where do I stop? Should I include La Romana province? Romana d'Annunzio? Pedro Caro y Sureda, Marquis of La Romana? Any advice? 74.226.201.126 19:25, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
It's a bit above me to do, but the disambiguation page for amelia is meshed in with amelia the disease. Could someone extricate it & add a link to Amelia (novel)?-- Ibis3 13:53, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
I've looked through the disambigutation policy and didn't find anything that really addressed this question: should the relative important of the pages to potentially be disambiguated matter? The two pages in question are scope creep and scope creep (relationships) Antonrojo 16:52, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I just made available a new mediawiki engine feature: From now on, the MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage page is a regular wiki page with the list of all disambibuation templates. It should have a short description, plus links pointing to all templates used for disambiguation. The page may be in any format, and contain any number of links, but only links to the Template: namespace will be treated as disambiguation templates.
Once you change it, the Special:Disambiguations will start showing all the pages linking to disambiguation pages, thus allowing users to correct links - and point them to the specific topics. That list gets regenerated every week (might be more often - need to check with admins).
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. -- Yurik 19:08, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
P.S. The page Wikipedia:Disambiguation Templates is no longer needed, as it contains the same information. -- Yurik 19:11, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
Hello, I am TrackerTV from WP:PCP. We need to collaborate with you on the new disambiguation Power Point. Please talk with us at WT:PCP. Tracker/TTV ( myTalk| myWork| myInbox) 20:21, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
Don't really know if this is the right place to ask, but does anyone know what the policy is for this? For example, at R, there is a link at the top to the page R (disambiguation), but all the items here are already in the main article anyway! This appears very inconsistent, e.g. there is no disambiguation page for B, and there are some extra articles at C (disambiguation) that are not at C. - postglock 03:17, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
The following is copied and pasted from Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation:
“ | Okay. Hey. Forgive me if this comment is misplaced. Name's Ace. I've read and followed an apparent policy that plurals need to either link to the singular article title, or a disambiguation page. Now, on the other hand, this may not be policy and just an "unwritten rule". If the latter case is in effect, as it seems to be, I'd like to recommend this policy be made official, citeable and applied throughout the encyclopedia. The mean issue comes back to disambiguation, not naming conventions or redirects. "Pixies" was once the title of the article now known as "Pixies (band)". The users, to put it mildly, are/were uneducated and/or unrealistic in matters of disambiguation. Similar case at what is now "Eels (band)" and several other " (band)" articles, actually. Users had/have the misguided belief that listing an article at a title for the plural of a common word or phrase is okay. Anyway, that's actually kind of moot. The big issue is plurals. "Eels", the word, can refer to the species,—and other varieties thereof—the band and many other uses. Thus, the redirect goes to the disambiguation page, not any of the articles. I first saw this method being implimented to with the redirect "heroes". It was redirected from hero, to Hero (disambiguation) so that readers could find Heroes (TV series) with more ease. No objections, to my knowledge, with the heroes edit and many objections due to...well...ignorance, with the eels disambiguation. Now, however, I have come across a problem. The redirect Pixies is being fought over. Fans of Pixies (band) believe that article to be the most notible use. They've even neglected to remove a move petition after an anministrator—also a fan and a bit of a jerk—moved the article to the current title. (It was at The Pixies for a time.) Anyway, the redirect of [[[Pixies]] could obviously refer to both Pixie and Pixies (band). And, let's face it, only the band, and, by fanatical devotion to them, some of the users, say simply "Pixies". They're arguably better known as the Pixies, like Joker (comics) as "The Joker. Also moot, however. The issue is, basically, this: I need a ruling. I cannot act per an unofficial practice. So...ahem...Help! :( ACS (Wikipedian); Talk to the Ace. See what I've edited. 16:27, 9 October 2006 (UTC) | ” |
I could really use some mediation on this. ACS (Wikipedian); Talk to the Ace. See what I've edited. 22:37, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
As far as I can tell, this should still be at The Pixies. We have The Beatles, The Kinks, The Jimi Hendrix Experience... and no one ever says, "Hey, you know that song by Pixies?" Dekimasu 08:58, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
Still, what I could really use is the policy I mentioned: Plurals redirect to disambiguation pages. Ace Class Shadow; User talk:Ace Class Shadow. 09:13, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
Would adding a banner to disambiguation pages declaring that it is adopted by a user be feasible and effective for directing interest in disambiguation repair? For example the banner on the talk page could say:
Or something to that effect. Then people could take ownership for each page by including their name on the talk page on the banner. To get more participants another banner could say:
Then they could go to that page or this one and adopt a page and include their name on the talk page banner. Would this be effective or possible? I know there are a lot of disambiguation pages, but all projects start small, and this could help to increase adoption rates and link repair. If this works, then a message can be sent to all of the WikiProject: Disambiguation participants asking them if they want to adopt a page. If you support/oppose this, please respond. If somebody knows how to program the banners to work, could somebody show an example? Just thought I would try and see if this would work or not. -- Nehrams2020 21:27, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
-- Nehrams2020 00:52, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
Please help me to talk to the senses of a fan of the " Igor" name disambig page. `' mikkanarxi 03:01, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 13:36, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
I stumbled across this page after finding a disambig page with random article. As there's no set banner for disambiguation pages (and, judging from the above, there seems to be opposing viewpoints as to what should be in one), I've created a bare-bones version for the project at {{ DisambigProject}}, which I've added to Talk:Azariah (seeing as that was the article that lead me to make the banner).
Anyway, hope it works for you. If it turns out that nobody likes it, I'll only cry a little bit, I promise. ;-) EVula 15:18, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
I've proposed changing template:Disambig and its variations from a table-based layout to CSS, at MediaWiki talk:Common.css#Divs instead of layout tables. — Michael Z. 2006-11-06 23:59 Z
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 3 | Archive 4 | Archive 5 | Archive 6 | Archive 7 | → | Archive 10 |
Quick gathering of opinions: is there a point in basketball (disambiguation)?
The film entry is a redlink, and to be honest, I don't think it'll ever earn itself an article, at least not in the foreseeable future. "The Basketball Diaries", in my opinion, has no risk of confusion — someone that wants to find out about "The Basketball Diaries" will probably search for "The Basketball Diaries" or perhaps "Basketball Diaries"; most people if not all would be able to figure out a mere "basketball" won't get them anywhere in a search. The final entry, "BASEketball", has a different spelling and I find this unlikely to be confused with the sport.
Just wanted to see what others think. Neonumbers 12:38, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
I would be grateful for advice on issues concerning Ptolemy (disambiguation). I have summarised the editing history and centralised links for discussions at Talk:Ptolemy (disambiguation). If you have any advice or comments, please leave them there. Thanks. Carcharoth 00:39, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
[Refactored and edited discussions copied here from the Help Desk and Category talk:Lists of ambiguous human names - please note I have copied these comments - apologies if this breaches any etiquette, though I think refactoring like this is OK.]
The Leonardo (disambiguation) page has a bit allowing people to see all articles starting "Leonardo", or rather to see a list of AllPages starting from Leonardo, as seen here. This is the first time I've seen this, though the Leonardo disambiguation talk page led me to Robert, which does look a bit overdone, but also has the "AllPages" link. My question is whether this is a common practice, or whether it falls foul of the "no self-reference" rule about not linking to non-article space in Wikipedia (creates problems with mirror/redistribution sites)? Carcharoth 18:57, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
[end quote]
So is using Special:AllPages a bad idea? It is a useful tool to find articles to put on disambig pages, but it seems lazy not to list them on the page itself. If the complaint is "there are too many", then that suggests something is wrong anyway. Carcharoth 01:59, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
No, Kusma, you are missing the point. No links to any form of Special Pages are acceptable. One of the reason for WP:ASR is because Wikipedia content is widely distributed under the GDFL to other websites. A good example is Answers.com. This link will hopefully show you their version of the Wikipedia disambiguation of the name Leonardo (you may need to scroll down the page): answers.com disambiguation page for Leonardo. As you can see, the "See also: List of all pages beginning with "Leonardo"" link does not work there. I doubt it works on other mirror/redistribution websites either.
Which brings me to another point. The pervasiveness of Wikipedia results on web searches should be emphasised as widely as possible to all editors of Wikipedia - maybe even in the editing boilerplate text. I fear that people who are not aware of how widely the content is redistributed will "check facts" using web pages that are just regurgitating the thing they are trying to check! A horrendous exercise in circularity. Carcharoth 02:55, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
The template and the category title read like they should be used for "ambiguous numbers". I think that means only 666 (disambiguation) or 2600 and similar pages. However, the category currently mostly consists of disambiguation pages whose title starts with a number. I fail to see how any of
qualify as "number-oriented articles". These articles do fit the category description, though: "This category consists of titles that begin with numbers." So should we amend the template, or recategorize some of the articles? Kusma (討論) 22:35, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
This page of titles that begin with numbers is a disambiguation page....
I'm pretty sure i recall at least a discussion (possibly a guideline) regarding putting a year (or vital stats or range of reign) in paren as the Dab'g suffix on an ambig name. IIRC the practice was at least denounced and not defended. But i haven't found again anything about it. Help!
--
Jerzy•
t
16:41, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
BTW, my use of a variation on that (see
The boxers Davey Moore and
Davey Moore) when i broke up a joint bio, seems to have gone unchallenged for going on a year; it continues to strike me as a rare (and perhaps enlightening) exception to the rule that there is virtually always something better than dates to distinguish people. IMO, this case justifies it bcz the time periods are more likely to be both recalled and clear (for any but serious fans) than anything else (like weight class or form of trauma ("(beaten)" vs "(crushed)"?). Comments welcome.
--
Jerzy•
t
16:41, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm posting my three (initial) 'graphs for this section at both Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography#Dab'g suffixes for Bios and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Disambiguation#Dab'g suffixes for Bios. If someone comments, it would probably be good if the first one would also put a note at the top of the section at the other location, urging that the responses be centralized. (Also good:
--
Jerzy•
t
16:41, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
Does rationing count as a disambiguation page? If not, is there a suitable category to put it in as an article that gives an overview of the use of a term in many different subject areas? Carcharoth 13:18, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is the appropriate forum for a help request, so I apologize if I'm out of place. Regardless, I have discovered there is a need for a disambiguation page for Marcus Claudius Marcellus. If you follow the link, the details are in the discussion page. Thank you for your time.-- ScottieB 00:59, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
I came across WTF and it didn't seem to still need cleanup, but I have little expierence in this area, so I thought I'd ask here. JesseW, the juggling janitor 22:07, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Disambiguating links to Bosnia (disambiguation) is pretty difficult, because it's hard to tell which ones should point to Bosnia and Hercegovina, and which to plain old Bosnia. What should we do about this tough case? -- Smack ( talk) 03:06, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
As a newbie, I thought I should ask for help on this: Sths currently redirects to Santa Teresa High School. However, the abbreviation is also used by Sydney technical high school. Can the redirect be removed, or changed into a disambiguation page with links to both pages? TIA Winterelf 03:57, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
On Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation#Primary topic links, I'm proposing to remove some confusing (and apparently often ignored) sentences from the guideline. Any comments are welcome. If there are no objections, I will remove the sentences after a week or so. older ≠ wiser 14:10, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm starting to tidy up the Democracy (disambiguation), and would appreciate some input. I've removed some links such as First Party System, but they are being defended as articles people interested in democracy need "disambiguated". This seems (to me) to clearly be what a disambiguation page is not, but some other views would be appreciated. The discussion thread is at Talk:Democracy (disambiguation)#Weeding_the_links- David Oberst 16:38, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
I was going to create a new article about the writer Lisa Tucker (well-known novelist of young adult literature), but the Lisa Tucker currently on Wikipedia is the American Idol contestant/singer. First thought was- make Lisa Tucker (disambiguation) and use the singer as the main Lisa Tucker. On second thought, they both seem to share equal, average, notability on Google search result pages. In fact, the writer Lisa Tucker has more news that override the singer Lisa Tucker (whom, the only news the singer has is when American Idol or Star Search is referenced.) What should be done? Should the current Lisa Tucker be moved to Lisa Tucker (singer)? Or should a new page, Lisa Tucker (disambiguation) be created? User:Arual 20:40, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
This is an embarrassing example of "We forgot!"...
It's something called "McQueen". In light of recent movies, what does that mean...
Lightning McQueen.
And somebody forgot to put it at McQueen (a disambiguation page).
I did it because:
Imagine. Somebody is looking for the Lightning McQueen article, and they just type "McQueen". The disambig that comes from there did not have Lightning McQueen, thus being a dead-end to the search. The article Lightning McQueen existed, but it now is also linked from the aforementioned disambiguation page. - Tracker <small>([[User talk:TrackerTV|>talk)</small>]] 02:41, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
In case you don't have Category:Disambiguation on your watchlist, there's some discussion at Category talk:Disambiguation#Secondary disambiguations of some new subcategories which may be of interest (or concern). older ≠ wiser 22:07, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
I looked through the talk archives and couldn't find the answer. Do we use {{ disambig-cleanup}} for pages with style problems only, or do we also use it for pages that (pretty much) follow MoS:DP but are missing content. For example, see Orlando. -- Usgnus 07:18, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
Anyone else want to comment at Talk:Grass? -- Usgnus 15:14, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
I seem to be getting into an edit war over whether universities should be listed above capital cities at Georgetown. Any advice from those more experienced? Also look at the talk:Georgetown talk page for a related issue. Thanks. -- Scott Davis Talk 23:31, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
OK. I'm not sure who I should talk to about this, but I think there should be a disambiguation page for the phrase "Romana". It should definitely include the two most obvious choices: Pax Romana and Romana, the companion of The Doctor. But where do I stop? Should I include La Romana province? Romana d'Annunzio? Pedro Caro y Sureda, Marquis of La Romana? Any advice? 74.226.201.126 19:25, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
It's a bit above me to do, but the disambiguation page for amelia is meshed in with amelia the disease. Could someone extricate it & add a link to Amelia (novel)?-- Ibis3 13:53, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
I've looked through the disambigutation policy and didn't find anything that really addressed this question: should the relative important of the pages to potentially be disambiguated matter? The two pages in question are scope creep and scope creep (relationships) Antonrojo 16:52, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I just made available a new mediawiki engine feature: From now on, the MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage page is a regular wiki page with the list of all disambibuation templates. It should have a short description, plus links pointing to all templates used for disambiguation. The page may be in any format, and contain any number of links, but only links to the Template: namespace will be treated as disambiguation templates.
Once you change it, the Special:Disambiguations will start showing all the pages linking to disambiguation pages, thus allowing users to correct links - and point them to the specific topics. That list gets regenerated every week (might be more often - need to check with admins).
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. -- Yurik 19:08, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
P.S. The page Wikipedia:Disambiguation Templates is no longer needed, as it contains the same information. -- Yurik 19:11, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
Hello, I am TrackerTV from WP:PCP. We need to collaborate with you on the new disambiguation Power Point. Please talk with us at WT:PCP. Tracker/TTV ( myTalk| myWork| myInbox) 20:21, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
Don't really know if this is the right place to ask, but does anyone know what the policy is for this? For example, at R, there is a link at the top to the page R (disambiguation), but all the items here are already in the main article anyway! This appears very inconsistent, e.g. there is no disambiguation page for B, and there are some extra articles at C (disambiguation) that are not at C. - postglock 03:17, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
The following is copied and pasted from Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation:
“ | Okay. Hey. Forgive me if this comment is misplaced. Name's Ace. I've read and followed an apparent policy that plurals need to either link to the singular article title, or a disambiguation page. Now, on the other hand, this may not be policy and just an "unwritten rule". If the latter case is in effect, as it seems to be, I'd like to recommend this policy be made official, citeable and applied throughout the encyclopedia. The mean issue comes back to disambiguation, not naming conventions or redirects. "Pixies" was once the title of the article now known as "Pixies (band)". The users, to put it mildly, are/were uneducated and/or unrealistic in matters of disambiguation. Similar case at what is now "Eels (band)" and several other " (band)" articles, actually. Users had/have the misguided belief that listing an article at a title for the plural of a common word or phrase is okay. Anyway, that's actually kind of moot. The big issue is plurals. "Eels", the word, can refer to the species,—and other varieties thereof—the band and many other uses. Thus, the redirect goes to the disambiguation page, not any of the articles. I first saw this method being implimented to with the redirect "heroes". It was redirected from hero, to Hero (disambiguation) so that readers could find Heroes (TV series) with more ease. No objections, to my knowledge, with the heroes edit and many objections due to...well...ignorance, with the eels disambiguation. Now, however, I have come across a problem. The redirect Pixies is being fought over. Fans of Pixies (band) believe that article to be the most notible use. They've even neglected to remove a move petition after an anministrator—also a fan and a bit of a jerk—moved the article to the current title. (It was at The Pixies for a time.) Anyway, the redirect of [[[Pixies]] could obviously refer to both Pixie and Pixies (band). And, let's face it, only the band, and, by fanatical devotion to them, some of the users, say simply "Pixies". They're arguably better known as the Pixies, like Joker (comics) as "The Joker. Also moot, however. The issue is, basically, this: I need a ruling. I cannot act per an unofficial practice. So...ahem...Help! :( ACS (Wikipedian); Talk to the Ace. See what I've edited. 16:27, 9 October 2006 (UTC) | ” |
I could really use some mediation on this. ACS (Wikipedian); Talk to the Ace. See what I've edited. 22:37, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
As far as I can tell, this should still be at The Pixies. We have The Beatles, The Kinks, The Jimi Hendrix Experience... and no one ever says, "Hey, you know that song by Pixies?" Dekimasu 08:58, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
Still, what I could really use is the policy I mentioned: Plurals redirect to disambiguation pages. Ace Class Shadow; User talk:Ace Class Shadow. 09:13, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
Would adding a banner to disambiguation pages declaring that it is adopted by a user be feasible and effective for directing interest in disambiguation repair? For example the banner on the talk page could say:
Or something to that effect. Then people could take ownership for each page by including their name on the talk page on the banner. To get more participants another banner could say:
Then they could go to that page or this one and adopt a page and include their name on the talk page banner. Would this be effective or possible? I know there are a lot of disambiguation pages, but all projects start small, and this could help to increase adoption rates and link repair. If this works, then a message can be sent to all of the WikiProject: Disambiguation participants asking them if they want to adopt a page. If you support/oppose this, please respond. If somebody knows how to program the banners to work, could somebody show an example? Just thought I would try and see if this would work or not. -- Nehrams2020 21:27, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
-- Nehrams2020 00:52, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
Please help me to talk to the senses of a fan of the " Igor" name disambig page. `' mikkanarxi 03:01, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 13:36, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
I stumbled across this page after finding a disambig page with random article. As there's no set banner for disambiguation pages (and, judging from the above, there seems to be opposing viewpoints as to what should be in one), I've created a bare-bones version for the project at {{ DisambigProject}}, which I've added to Talk:Azariah (seeing as that was the article that lead me to make the banner).
Anyway, hope it works for you. If it turns out that nobody likes it, I'll only cry a little bit, I promise. ;-) EVula 15:18, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
I've proposed changing template:Disambig and its variations from a table-based layout to CSS, at MediaWiki talk:Common.css#Divs instead of layout tables. — Michael Z. 2006-11-06 23:59 Z