Forum:CT Archive/Disambiguation pages

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After reading up on disambiguation pages at Wikipedia, I got to thinking that we should re-evaluate the way we handle our, particularly in regards to "primary topics":


 * "When there is a well known primary meaning for a term or phrase, much more used than any other (this may be indicated by a majority of links in existing articles or by consensus of the editors of those articles that it will be significantly more commonly searched for and read than other meanings), then that topic may be used for the title of the main article, with a disambiguation link at the top. Where there is no such clearly dominant usage there is no primary topic page."

Now, take the unoriginally titled Legacy of the Force books. Betrayal is just at Betrayal with a link to the disambiguation page at the top. The same goes for Sacrifice. Tempest, however, is at Tempest (novel), despite being the most linked to article with that name (with over 500 links, while the others only have a few). Eventually, the same will happen with Inferno (novel) and Fury (novel). So I propose that in cases like these where major novels are obviously the primary topics, instead of having:

Tempest (novel) [the book] and Tempest [the disambiguation page]

We have:

Tempest [the book] and Tempest (disambiguation) [the disambiguation page]

Articles this would affect would be Tempest (novel), Inferno (novel), Fury (novel), Darksaber (novel), and Shatterpoint (novel). (Please post any others I have missed.)

Move articles and link to disambiguation pages

 * 1) Ozzel 02:13, 28 January 2007 (UTC)