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