[Wikipedia-l] Duplicate pages.

[Eirik Bakke]

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From: "Karen AKA Kajikit" <kaji at labyrinth.net.au>
To: <wikipedia-l at nupedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 5:17 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Duplicate pages.


> > Eirik Bakke wrote:
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I'm fairly new to wikipedia, and this mailinglist, so I don't really
> > know if this is the appropriate forum for this, but here goes;
> >
> > I'm attempting to flesh out the area of music genres, however I've ran
> > into a problem I cannot seem to find a way to get around. When
> > entering artists of various musical genres, alot of the entries I want
> > to make, already have alot of information on a totally different
> > subject (Fish, Genesis,Delerium,Live, Emperor ect). The obvious
> > solution would be to add it to the existing pages under a different
> > meaning of the word, however I feel that would do more harm then good
> > on alot of topics. (Writing about progressive rock under the entrance
> > for "Fish") Is there any workaroud for this? Ideally creating several
> > pages for the same topic, that would both show up on a search, without
> > the clutter of having elerything on the same page. This problem will
> > only get more common as the numbers of articles increase.
> >
> > I would apprechiate and insight you migth have to offer.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Eirik Bakke
>
> Hi Eirik,
>
> If it was me doing that work, I'd make the entries with titles as clear
> and disabiguous as I could eg. Fish (Rock band) Someone who did a search
> for fish would see all the entries with the word 'fish' in them and they
> ought to be able to tell which are the ones they're looking for.
>
> From my personal knowledge, a 'fish' is a creature with fins and a
> tail... :)
>
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Yes, that should work. Won't look as elegant, but it should serve. Thanks
for the tip :)

Eirik Bakke