[Wikipedia-l] RE: movie naming convention (in grater context)

Daniel Mayer maveric149 at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 27 17:45:53 UTC 2002


On Tuesday 27 August 2002 10:25 pm, Ray Saintonge wrote:
> Disambiguation can be an art.  Considering the disambiguation of movies
> in isolotion from everything else can become a problem at a later stage.
>  We need to look at the process (as distinct from format) of
> disambiguation as a whole.  I would make the specific proposal that "the
> first level of disambiguation should answer the question 'what?'".

OK - This was never something I felt strongly about and I think you have a 
good idea on answering "what" with disambiguation and then answering "when" 
if needed. 

Well, I guess I have some articles to move....

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)




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