--- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee(a)piclab.com> wrote:
> (Axel Boldt <axelboldt(a)yahoo.com>)m>):
Yes,
that's a real problem; when linking to something, you can
never be sure whether the target is a disambiguation page or not.
That's not a bug, it's a feature. Seriously, accidental discovery of
vaguely related things is one of the fun parts of Wiki surfing, and
part of the value of the medium. Let's not go overboard and "fix"
things that are useful just because they seem unplanned.
Well, if a link to a disambiguation page is planned, then that's fine I
suppose, but often the author is unaware of it and the link may then
become imprecise and unhelpful. For example, in the eighteenth century
there were three mathematicians named "Johann Bernoulli". Also, lots of
technical terms have various definitions depending on context, and
while experts can usually tell which one is meant, those people are not
our main audience.
Axel
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