| Nikki added a comment. |
I don't think disambiguation items should be removed from the suggester entirely:
We have some statements using "different from" (e.g. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16479551) to prevent names being merged with disambiguation pages, and also some statements using "said to be the same as" (e.g. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q421231) to link disambiguation pages with related spellings or meanings. Hiding disambiguation items would mean people can only create these statements if they have the ID.
People sometimes incorrectly merge disambiguation items with non-disambiguation items. Hiding disambiguation items would mean real items would vanish from the search results after such merges. The same thing would happen when a sitelink turns into a disambiguation page and a bot comes along and marks the item as a disambiguation page. Things like that do need fixing, but hiding the items makes it harder to find them and makes it more likely that people will create duplicates.
As I understand it, the same search is used for the search in the top right of the page. People sometimes need to be able to find disambiguation items, e.g. if you have a new disambiguation page and want to see if there's already an item you can add it to, or if a sitelink (like in the scenario above) needs moving to a disambiguation item.
Cc: Izno, Nikki, Aklapper, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Mbch331
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