[WikiEN-l] Disambiguation policy

[Toby Bartels]

Peter Jaros wrote:

>Tarquin wrote:

>>The purpose of disamb pages is to catch links made to [[Forest]], and
>>only this. Nobody will write "De[[Forest]] Kelley", will they? Nor
>>will they write "Epping [[forest]]", unless they actually want to link
>>to what a forest generally is.

>Not just for links.  They're also to catch lookups when readers use the
>'Go' button.  The page should also include anything a reader might be
>looking for by looking up 'Forest'.  Though this is probably the same
>as what would link to it if we give the readers any credit.  :)

It could reasonably link to [[List of forests]],
but doesn't need to contain such a list itself.
And [[DeForest Kelley]] is just silly. ^_^


-- Toby