David Goodman wrote:
I would very much liketo take Wps redirect and disam system and rationalize it. the first step would be to change the policy so the full form of the name, including middle names, are always used when available. The second is to add geographic designators for all local events and places and organizations below the national level.
Well, I suppose adding a category to redirects from names "in standard form" could definitely be done now; and it would be possible (?) to make it a "Preferences" option to display standard form names as article titles.
As for rationalisation of dab pages, the MOSDAB people constantly work on this. I have reservations, certainly, because (unlike the redirect case) the idea that a dab page is solely for shunting people on to another page strikes me as ideological rather than in the best interests of the encyclopedia.
Charles