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So even a disambig page can have legitimate links to it. So, if we had the disambig page at ], when you looked at "What links here", you'd still have a mix of legitimate links, and bogus ones (where someone was lazy, and linked to ], without checking to see what they got).
178:, all over again, because you probably don't remember any more which ones were legitimate, and which ones are not. And there's no history on "What links here" you can use, to call out only the ones that have been added since the last time you checked! 102:
at ] is because this enables us to quickly check for articles which have linked to ], without the writer of that page checking to make sure they got the right meaning of "{foo}".
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I see so many instances of these kinds of problems with disambiguation pages that it's not true. I regularly 'clean' disambig pages I created, and I do other ones all the time.
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The disambiguation page (i.e. the page that lists all the potential meanings, and provides links to the articles, for those for which we have articles) should be at ].
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links to ] are automatically bogus, and the rest (to ]) automatically good - and it will be totally trivial to find the ones that need to be fixed.
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The annoying thing is that you go fix them all - and you go back some months later and they are more, and you have to go check them
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As to what to do with the existing ones, yeah, that's a big problem. I'm still pondering what to do about the existing ones.
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pages which have multiple potential meanings (i.e. need disambiguation) should be handled as follows.
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making more of them - my primary concern at the moment is to stop things from getting any worse.
117:, some of the meanings don't have pages (e.g. party hack), and so some pages do legitimately 90:, to make sure they are all to the arboreal "tree", as opposed to someone who wanted, say, a 105:
The thing is that for many disambiguation pages, there are some meanings of "{foo}" which
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Yes, I know a jillion pages already use the old way, but that's no reason to
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the right thing (since the meaning is defined there). E.g. if you look at
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A redirect should should be placed at the main ] location; i.e. with
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I just spent a couple of hours, a while back, fixing all the
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All "foo" articles should be at pages of the form ], ], etc.
82:, and look through each page, when you get there, to find 125:(which is a disambiguation page at the moment), e.g. 159:, and more recently did all the ones that linked to 40:
experience here, I am coming to the conclusion that
57:article actually at ], not even the main meaning. 70:at ] is that when you have a popular page like 194:(To comment on this proposal, please use its 74:, it's impossibly painstaking to go click on 27:(To comment on this proposal, please use its 8: 109:articles, and linking to the disambig page 136:However, if the disambiguation page is 140:at ], with a redirect to ] at ], then 7: 24: 98:The reason why I don't want the 66:The reason why I don't want the 1: 163:. I'm about to do links to 213: 36:Based on a fair amount of 92:tree data structure 86:the references to 204: 167:- and check out 212: 211: 207: 206: 205: 203: 202: 201: 192: 181: 169:What links here 147: 97: 80:What links here 35: 22: 21: 20: 12: 11: 5: 210: 208: 100:disambiguation 64: 63: 59: 58: 50: 49: 23: 15: 14: 13: 10: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 209: 200: 199: 197: 190: 187: 185: 179: 177: 172: 170: 166: 162: 158: 154: 149: 145: 143: 139: 134: 130: 128: 124: 120: 116: 112: 108: 103: 101: 95: 93: 89: 85: 81: 77: 73: 69: 61: 60: 56: 52: 51: 47: 46: 45: 43: 39: 33: 32: 30: 19: 193: 191: 188: 183: 180: 175: 173: 150: 146: 141: 137: 135: 131: 110: 106: 104: 99: 96: 83: 75: 68:main content 67: 65: 54: 41: 37: 34: 26: 25: 171:for that! 127:Soviet art 107:don't have 196:talk page 78:entry in 38:practical 29:talk page 165:protocol 18:User:Jnc 157:Cracker 138:always 76:every 16:< 184:keep 161:hack 153:link 123:hack 119:link 115:hack 88:tree 72:tree 176:all 155:to 142:all 121:to 94:. 84:all 42:all 198:.) 129:. 111:is 55:no 31:.)

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