On 10/5/08, quiddity blanketfort@gmail.com wrote:
because [[Signal Mountain]] as a standard style dab page (with that 1 town and 24 mountains) would be almost useless. So they split the mountains out into a specialized-style dab page.
If the town didn't exist, the two pages would be functionally identical. Adding one town or song or movie (or anything else which despite the name is not a mountain) a trivial difference as all 25 are equally likely to be searched for as "Signal Mountain" or be the intended target of ambiguous links.
Would you move all the towns at [[List of towns named Springfield]] just because of [[Springfield]] is towns? I wouldn't.
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.
—C.W.