The #REDIRECT syntax is our ugliest, because it stands out and is confusingly rendered as

1. foo

because # is also our numbering syntax.

The disambiguation pages are badly in need of standardization, as they all look different. If we ever want to change the disambig text, we need to do it manually on hundreds of pages.

We can solve both problems with an only slightly improved #REDIRECT syntax:

Tatra

#REDIRECT [[Tatra mountains]]: a mountain range, part of the Carpathian Mountains, between Poland and Slovakia. #REDIRECT [[Tatra (car)]]: car brand from the Czech Republic -- becomes

Tatra

'''Tatra''' can be used to refer to:

1. [[Tatra mountains]]: a mountain range, part of the .. 2. [[Tatra (car)|Tatra]]: car brand from the Czech Republic

This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page.

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(Note the rightmost parentheses should be auto-removed for aesthetic reasons.)

As you can see, now our #REDIRECT syntax actually makes sense. If there's just one #REDIRECT, we just put the user on the respective page. If there are several, we give him a choice.

I suggest a slightly different syntax to provide a redirect reason:

#REDIRECT [[Tatra mountains]] // namco

Becomes

Redirected to Tatra mountains. Reason: [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions|naming convention]]

As I suggested earlier, these reasons could be loaded from an array in the Language.* file, so that we avoid having to standardize these texts manually.

Thoughts?

Regards,

Erik