On 6/15/07, Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
Fair enough. I still think it's a lot cleaner and
more usable to type
in a subject and have a paragraph about the subject than to be
redirected to a long page with lots of subjects and be taken to the
middle of the article where the paragraph about that particular
subject is located.
It's been something we have been using for years in relation to
fictional subjects:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_Star_Wars_characters
For fictional subjects it works quite well since the primary
properties of that subject are fairly easy to define. The Xeelee are
only a very powerful species within Stephen Baxter's Xeelee sequence
that is the only group they can really be placed in.
Hodgesaargh only exists within the context of the discworld books.
Thus placing him in a list of Discworld characters is not a problem.
People tend to be more difficult.
An Olympic athlete may well appear in two games. A footballer may play
for many clubs over many seasons and far to many will have played for
any one club to have say "list of minor liverpool players".
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geni