User talk:Disambiguator
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Bravo for your "project" to improve Wikipedia's disambiguation pages! A couple of suggestions/requests, though (arising from your edits to Monocle (disambiguation)):
- Per WP:MOSDAB, in most cases the links to articles being disambiguated should not be piped. The reason for this is that the actual name of the article is much more helpful to the person looking for that article than having every link appear with the ambiguous text (e.g. monocle or monocle is less clear than monocle (magazine) or monocle (comics).
- Avoid adding entries to things that aren't ambiguous, like "The Monocled Mutineer". Disambiguation pages are not general indexes. They are aids for the case where someone has made a link to what they thought would be the most likely name, and got it wrong. Nobody would make the link "[[monocle]]" expecting it to lead to "The Monocled Mutineer" or The Emerald Monocle. When there are peripheral things like this that you really feel you have to include, put them in a separate "see also" section, rather than in the disambiguation list.
Thanks again for your cleanup efforts! They are much appreciated. Bad disambiguation pages are a pet peeve of mine, too.--Srleffler 23:07, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
