On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 3:47 AM, Charlotte Webb charlottethewebb@gmail.com wrote:
Would you move all the towns at [[List of towns named Springfield]] just because of [[Springfield]] is towns? I wouldn't.
Neither would I (simplistically stated: because I tend to favour mergism), but some people would, due to their own subjective opinions.
I really don't think it started with disambig pages! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ALLWIKI explains the tightrope, now don't link anything superfluous!
Well, I fail to see how three of four languages spoken in der Schweiz are "superfluous". Better to start with verbs like "so-and-so [[walking|walked]] all the way to..." than high-profile proper nouns, but only if there is a problem so bad that rapid uncareful changes would be better than the status quo. I'm not convinced of this.
I should have said - I don't necessarily agree with that edit to [[Switzerland]] either.
I'm just trying to explain to you why it happens (because you asked).
Allwiki is one extreme, plain-unlinked-text is the other - we each decide individually where we fall in between. I'm not trying to "convince" you of anything!
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