Ah, now I know what you mean, you are talking about the duplication in the notices. The disambiguations themselves are needed, but the wording could indeed improve. I think it's often a leftover from when there's just one other article to disambiguate with, in which case this is a common wording. Not sure what's wrong with the wording on the barrel one. The unit and the actual metal barrel object are different things that can have their own article.
Mgm
On 2/13/07, Bogdan Giusca liste@dapyx.com wrote:
I noticed that on some pages with very clear titles we can find disambiguation notices, like these ones:
<< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_(software) "This article is about software. For other uses, see Beagle (disambiguation)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vis_(island) "This is an article about island named Vis. For the town with the same name, see Vis_(town)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_(unit) "See Barrel (disambiguation) for other uses."
The point of disambiguation notices is to resolve conflicts when the title is shared by more than one meaning.
But the title "Beagle (software)" is not at all ambiguous! From the title anyone can tell it's about a piece of software not a dog or a ship. The same with "Vis (island)", "Barrel (unit)" and thousands of other articles.
Then why do we have them?
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