[Wikipedia-l] Duplicate pages.

[Eirik Bakke]

Will do.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brion VIBBER" <brion at pobox.com>
To: <wikipedia-l at nupedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 6:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Duplicate pages.


> Eirik Bakke wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> That which you seek you shall find explained in 
> [[wikipedia:Disambiguation]].
> http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/wikipedia:Disambiguation
> 
> Most likely in this case you'd want to create pages such as [[Fish 
> (band)]] (I thought it was "Phish"... There's already an article under 
> that title; is it the same group?), [[Genesis (band)]] etc, with a brief 
> note and link from [[Fish]], [[Genesis]], etc.
> 
> Note that at the bottom of [[Genesis]], there's already a brief note 
> about the band with a link to a non-existent page [[Genesis/group]]. 
> That's an ugly link using the old slash-subpage style from before 
> parentheses worked in wiki titles, feel free to change it.
> 
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
> 
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