[Wikipedia-l] Disambiguation pages

[Daniel Mayer]

On Tuesday 02 July 2002 02:10 am,  Toby Bartels wrote:
> You know what would make writing unambiguous links easier?
> I'd like to say "[[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]]" without repeating "Mercury".
> Would it work to have a feature such that, say, "[[Mercury]](planet)"
> (with no space) produces that effect?

That would be cool. Or simply have the software, by default ignore anything 
in parenthesis and only display the non-parenthetical term: 
So that [[Mercury (planet)]] is displayed as simply <u>Mercury</u>. Or if 
this is deemed inappropriate default behavior, maybe add just the | and/or ~, 
* or whatever to turn this feature on: [[Mercury (planet)|*]] yields 
<u>Mercury</u>. 

Alleviating the tedium of making links to parenthetical titles would be most 
useful. 

--maveric149