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which were put in wiki articles by incompetent or careless editors. The links took you to a "disambiguation page" which left it up to your imagination which town the editor really meant. I've tried to remedy this situation whenever I've had a few minutes to kill and could figure out which town an
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to be a huge nuisance. Far too much time is spent creating them and putting people in them and debating about who should, or should not, be in this or that category. I very seldom click on a link to a "category" and have little or no interest in what category a person might fall into.
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article was talking about — the one in
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