[Wikipedia-l] Duplicate pages.

[Karen AKA Kajikit]

> Eirik Bakke wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm fairly new to wikipedia, and this mailinglist, so I don't really
> know if this is the appropriate forum for this, but here goes;
> 
> I'm attempting to flesh out the area of music genres, however I've ran
> into a problem I cannot seem to find a way to get around. When
> entering artists of various musical genres, alot of the entries I want
> to make, already have alot of information on a totally different
> subject (Fish, Genesis,Delerium,Live, Emperor ect). The obvious
> solution would be to add it to the existing pages under a different
> meaning of the word, however I feel that would do more harm then good
> on alot of topics. (Writing about progressive rock under the entrance
> for "Fish") Is there any workaroud for this? Ideally creating several
> pages for the same topic, that would both show up on a search, without
> the clutter of having elerything on the same page. This problem will
> only get more common as the numbers of articles increase.
> 
> I would apprechiate and insight you migth have to offer.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Eirik Bakke

Hi Eirik,

If it was me doing that work, I'd make the entries with titles as clear
and disabiguous as I could eg. Fish (Rock band) Someone who did a search
for fish would see all the entries with the word 'fish' in them and they
ought to be able to tell which are the ones they're looking for.