(Axel Boldt axelboldt@yahoo.com): --- Gary Curtis wikiman@freemail.com.au wrote:
It is for Jack or Jill Average, who adds a link to [[mercury]] with little thought that there are so many mercury's.
Yes, that's a real problem; when linking to something, you can never be sure whether the target is a disambiguation page or not.
That's not a bug, it's a feature. Seriously, accidental discovery of vaguely related things is one of the fun parts of Wiki surfing, and part of the value of the medium. Let's not go overboard and "fix" things that are useful just because they seem unplanned.