In some cases, I have used the same disambiguation
link at top, only it links to a Disambiguation section
at bottom, rather than on a separate page. The link
looks the same. In other cases, where the
"disambiguation" is misused for overly specific links,
I will used the {{fn|1}} footnote tag. Thats for
linking to a Notes section, put before External links.
[[Monica Lewinsky scandal]] now has this, and I note
that people are using these more consistently.
Disambiguation could benefit from the same thing.
Whoever said that disambiguations needed to be
exclusively pages, and not sections? In cases where 98
percent of traffic links to a main article, or where
only one separate entry (which people try to stick at
the top) a simple disambiguation section seems
justified.
SV
--- MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Disambiguations are there to make it easier for
people to find the
article they're looking for and have a similar name
to the article
they end up at. Shortening to a regular "For other
uses see Foo
(disambiguation)" seems better than hiding them at
the bottom, which
defies the entire point of having them.
Only expand such top dab notices for stuff that's
searched for really often.
--Mgm
On 9/13/05, steve v <vertigosteve(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
There has been a dislikable tendency to use
large
notes -- often dealing with superficial aspects of
the
name -- as disambiguation headers.
As a solution, I suggest using the footnote tags
{{fn|1}} (top) {{fnb|1}} (bottom), under a ==
Notes ==
section, to move such things down as footnotes
rather
than hatnotes. Hatnotes should be substantial and
as
brief as possible, not links to punk bands, or
any
other thing other than disambiguation, or exactly
similar titles.
In some cases, using a Disambiguation section
(after
links) seems a better compromise than even
creating a
disambiguation page.
SV
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