On 22/01/07, Gregory Kohs thekohser@gmail.com wrote:
Could somebody please explain why [[Water chestnut]] is a disambiguation page (with, in my opinion, neither splitting article really doing a good job of describing the tuber that most English-speaking people are familiar with from either a grocery store can or their local Chinese restaurant), while [[Corn]] (which redirects to [[Maize]]) is a really nice article that talks about the corn we all know and love, while having a convenient, unobtrusive "disambig" flag at the top?
Doesn't the water chestnut deserve a little better than this confusing disambiguation page? It's a pretty common food. Does the Wikipedia community really expect users to find their way specifically to [[Eleocharis dulcis]] to get a half-decent write-up on the water chestnuts that many of their recipes call for?
I think we expect them to be intelligent enough to open [[water chestnut]] and click on the appropriate link. (I would have no idea which one it is, but then I don't eat them)
What I want to know is... why does [[corn]], in much of the English-speaking world a generic term either for cereal crops in general or the locally-dominant crop specifically, and a term with several other distinct meanings, redirect to the specific footstuff called "corn" in America?
I find it amusing we have entirely opposite reactions to these two!