Actually this looks like the perfect subject for a blog post. The Beirut/beer pong diff is a classic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beirut&oldid=21810147 Got more like that? I'd be glad to blog it, or possibly grant editor ops at the WikiVoices blog (a group blog). Thanks very much for the laughter. -Durova On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Carcharoth <carcharot...@googlemail.com>wrote: > Will, simple question: do you accept that trivial disambiguations can > be unencyclopedic and give the wrong impression, and if so, is having > a neutral dab hatlink better than a jarring note being sounded at the > top of a page, the first thing the reader will read after the title? > > OK, that was a long simple question... > > Carcharoth > > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:47 PM, <wjhon...@aol.com> wrote: > > This is how I do it. If in "Plankton" we have only one other thing named > > planton, then we shouldn't have a disamg page just for two items. That > seems > > overkill. So in that case SB_Plankton makes sense. If however in "Bob > > Jones" we have 15 people, 3 things, and 2 places named "Bob Jones" then > it > > makes sense to have a disamg page. > > > > I.E. there's a trade-off in having too many clicks, where it is? two > > items? or three? > > > > W.J > > > > > > > > In a message dated 8/19/2009 7:37:26 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > > carcharot...@googlemail.com writes: > > > > > >> If there really is a chance that > >> people will search for "plankton" in an attempt to find out about the > >> SB character, then the hatnote should be neutral and direct people to > >> a disambiguation page ("for other things named plankton, see here"). > >> And I don't care if that disambiguation page only has two entries. > >> That is an acceptable trade-off to having a spongebob squarepants > >> character name jarring people's reading experience by being placed at > >> the top of an unrelated article. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > WikiEN-l mailing list > > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- http://durova.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l