I just thought of a way to solve the problem without any subpage-like notations:
* Have all topics, even fictional characters, as a plain title.
* On pages where the title has multiple meanings (e.g., Mars), use a wikipedia-special heading tags. I suggest <h0>Mars the god</h0> ..... <h0>Mars the planet</h0> .....
* On each page that has these special tags, the software generates a brief directory with links inside the page <UL> <li><a href="#Mars the god">Mars the god</a></li> <li><a href="#Mars the planet">Mars the planet</a></li> </UL> <HR>
Personally, I like Tims proposal better, but is has turned out that my taste in these things is strangely uncorrelated with that of the rest of the wikipedia community ;)
Magnus
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-admin@nupedia.com [mailto:wikipedia-l-admin@nupedia.com]On Behalf Of Jan Hidders Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 6:59 PM To: wikipedia-l@nupedia.com Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] yet another modest proposal to address subpage-like behavior
From: "Magnus Manske" Magnus.Manske@epost.de
That's it (as I understood it). The problem at [[Middle Earth]]
does seem to
be thy typing inconvenience. The proposal should solve it nicely and
simple,
without subpages.
I think Tims proposal is an excellent one, but if I'm honest it looks very much like subpages with a slightly different (better) notation.
-- Jan Hidders
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