Steve Bennett wrote:
There have certainly been cases where I've been redirected without understanding why (usually because the topic is some synonym for some obscure point discussed in the 14th paragraph...) It's not obvious how to then fix the problem though - you almost need a "Topics discussed in this article" box up the top.
The "Table of Contents" box can serve this purpose in many cases, fortunately. Subtopics often get their own section, whose header shows up there.
Unlike a real encyclopaedia, we don't seem willing or able to have incredibly short articles that say things like "Wreckage: temporary name given to English pop group Ibex in 1970. See [[Ibex (group)]]".
In this case a disambiguation page would be able to hold this information, but I can see the problem where a non-ambiguous name comes in. Hopefully one can come up with enough information to warrant a section header for the topic, at least.