At Mon, 31 Mar 2003 12:28:59 +0200 (CEST),
Andre Engels (engels(a)uni-koblenz.de) wrote:
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
My original idea is for the human to control the disambiguation
process. The software just facilitates the process.
Gary Curtis
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