[WikiEN-l] Water chestnuts

[Thomas Dalton]

> Could somebody please explain why [[Water chestnut]] is a disambiguation
> page (with, in my opinion, neither splitting article really doing a good job
> of describing the tuber that most English-speaking people are familiar with
> from either a grocery store can or their local Chinese restaurant), while
> [[Corn]] (which redirects to [[Maize]]) is a really nice article that talks
> about the corn we all know and love, while having a convenient,
> unobtrusive "disambig" flag at the top?
>
> Doesn't the water chestnut deserve a little better than this confusing
> disambiguation page?  It's a pretty common food.  Does the Wikipedia
> community really expect users to find their way specifically to [[Eleocharis
> dulcis]] to get a half-decent write-up on the water chestnuts that many of
> their recipes call for?

It would appear that two different plants are known as "Water
chestnut" and neither is significantly more important than the other,
so we have a disambig page. It's standard practice. What would you
have instead?