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Parenthetical disambiguation should also be avoided whenever possible.

It would be idiotic to have a non-article list with a disambiguation notice at [[Paul Simon]] with links to [[Paul Simon (musician)]] and [[Paul Simon (politician)]] just because these two people share the same name. Of course, the musician (who is hands down the most widely known person by the name "Paul Simon") should be at [[Paul Simon]] and the politician should be at an article that has his middle initial (Like [[George W. Bush]]) and if that doesn't work then the hideous [[Paul Simon (politician)]] would have to be used. Notice, the decision to use a parenthetical title here was a last resort and was only used for the less well-known Paul Simon.

In addition; if one thing is known only by a one word name, and another thing is usually called by the same one word name in its native context but is often also called by a naturally disambiguated two word name, there is NO need to have a disambiguation page at the one word page title (because the context here is an online hyper-linked encyclopedia, not the native context of the two word term). We can reasonably assume a person of average or greater intelligence making a link intended for the two word term, will make a link to the two word term and not the one word term because this is an encyclopedia and we should assume that person has enough sense to naturally disambiguate the link.

For example: It would be equally dumb to turn [[worm]] into a non-article disambiguation page just because there is also such things as computer worms and candy worms.

It is my opinion that one of the reasons why wikipedia has been as preposterously successful as it has, is due the ease with which links can be made from one article to the next. Unfortunately, as wikipedia grows, ambiguities will increasingly pop up and resolving those ambiguities might make linking more and more tedious as time goes by -- if we are not careful.

In order to dramatically slow this, I propose that we should be very careful when deciding to make disambiguation pages and only make them when true ambiguities exist (also, to avoid parenthetical disambiguation whenever possible). No one of average or greater intelligence would link to [[Paris]] in the context of a hyper-linked encyclopedia and reasonably expect that link to go to an article about Paris, Texas. I also proposse to make it a policy that whoever makes these pages should have to fix each and every misdirected link so that they point directly to where they intend.

--maveric149