Michel Clasquin clasqm@mweb.co.za writes:
You mean, just like [[Batman]]? The people working on Tolkien seem to be the only ones in a huff and a hurry about this.
Well, thats different.
Primarily, because Batman is a *the* main character in the franchise, and the name of that franchise. If I use the proper noun "Batman", people know what I'm talking about. There is no ambiguity. The question is not where do you put [[Batman]], but where do you put [[Robin]]. Or [[Alfred]] (do you really want the [[Alfred]] page to be an article about an English king with poor culinary skills and and an article about Bruce Wayne's butler?
A link to both? What would you call the latter?
Similarly, whilst [[Bilbo Baggins]] is unproblematic, [[The Ring]] should probably be an article about Wagner's operatic cycle. Whereas [[Middle Earth/The Ring]] can tell us about its forging in Mount Doom, its loss in Gladden Fields yadda, yadda, yadda.
The fact remains, that (modulo the auto-wikifying of GNU/Linux, which was a bug not a feature), and when used for *disambiguation* rather than in any hierarchical sense, SUBPAGES WORKED.
It continues to baffle me that some people seem to think [[Alfred (Batman)]] is in somehow sense different from [[Batman/Alfred]] (rather than just more difficult to type).