Daniel Mayer wrote:
--- janisc@adelphia.net wrote:
and how do you redirect? Say someone's album is called "Helium", well we already know helium is a gas. How do you redirect to "Helium (album)"
At the top of the [[helium]] article there is this text "This page is about the chemical element helium. For the American indie rock band Helium see Helium (band). " Simply add a link to [[helium (album)]] as well. If too many things called "Helium" are listed, then move all of them to [[Helium (disambiguation)]] and put {{otheruses}} at the top of the [[helium]] article. That is a template ref that will say "For other uses see [[helium (disambiguation)."
All this is part of the disambiguation block style of disambiguation. Full disambiguation is only used when there is no clearly dominant meaning for a term. See [[Mars]] for an example.
-- mav
Well, It is one way of doing it and on several wikipedias it is very much frowned upon. It means that you discriminate against one meaning as you value one meaning over another. So, a better way of doing it is to create a disambiguation page called [[Helium]] and on this page you refer to all the different meanings of the word. The references need to be taken care off and so do the interwiki links, but it is straightforward and correct.
When to your understanding Helium should be the dominant meaning, you have to understand we are not all in the funny voices or the balloon business. :) So as it is not obvious what should be dominant, it is obvious that this scheme has inherent flaws.
Thanks, GerardM