On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 16:21:15 -0700, Toby Bartels toby+wikipedia@math.ucr.edu gave utterance to the following:
Richard Grevers wrote:
In fact - links to disambign articles are a perfect use. You can make it clear what sense of a word you are linking to.
Erm ... why would you ever /deliberately/ link to a disambig page like this? Why not just link to the page that that section of the disambig page links to? The purpose of disambig pages is almost entirely to catch links that /don't/ go where they really ought to go.
Perhaps you mean links to articles that have several brief discussions that are separated by horizontal rules? That makes some sense.
Yes - if you look at the page for [[Pitch]] for example, not all contexts link to articles (most have wiki links, but in some cases the target article is very broad and will be lucky to mention the word pitch once.
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