On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Tim Starling wrote:
This is also on wikitech-l, forwarded on to wikipedia-l at Cunctator's request.
I've already briefly discussed this with Gary on his user talk page. A few observations:
In his proposal below, Gary does not explicitly deal with what happens when a previously unambiguous name is given a second meaning. Here's what I suggest:
- The original page is moved to a disambiguated name. This name is selected
by the user who creates the second page.
- All existing links are updated via the pipe trick to point to the
newly-disambiguated primary article.
Sounds like a bad idea - any pages that previously referred to the old page _wrongly_ would now be even more wrong. There will be rare cases where one disambiguation subject would be the only one that had links, but more commonly there are a few links that go to other disambiguation subjects. So I would very much prefer to have disambiguation done by hand, or at least under human control.
Andre Engels