In some cases, I have used the same disambiguation link at top, only it links to a Disambiguation section at bottom, rather than on a separate page. The link looks the same. In other cases, where the "disambiguation" is misused for overly specific links, I will used the {{fn|1}} footnote tag. Thats for linking to a Notes section, put before External links. [[Monica Lewinsky scandal]] now has this, and I note that people are using these more consistently. Disambiguation could benefit from the same thing. Whoever said that disambiguations needed to be exclusively pages, and not sections? In cases where 98 percent of traffic links to a main article, or where only one separate entry (which people try to stick at the top) a simple disambiguation section seems justified.
SV
--- MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
Disambiguations are there to make it easier for people to find the article they're looking for and have a similar name to the article they end up at. Shortening to a regular "For other uses see Foo (disambiguation)" seems better than hiding them at the bottom, which defies the entire point of having them.
Only expand such top dab notices for stuff that's searched for really often.
--Mgm
On 9/13/05, steve v vertigosteve@yahoo.com wrote:
There has been a dislikable tendency to use large notes -- often dealing with superficial aspects of
the
name -- as disambiguation headers.
As a solution, I suggest using the footnote tags {{fn|1}} (top) {{fnb|1}} (bottom), under a ==
Notes ==
section, to move such things down as footnotes
rather
than hatnotes. Hatnotes should be substantial and
as
brief as possible, not links to punk bands, or any other thing other than disambiguation, or exactly similar titles.
In some cases, using a Disambiguation section
(after
links) seems a better compromise than even
creating a
disambiguation page.
SV
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