I think the idea is to help the reader find what they're looking for as quickly as possible. In some cases, the article they want is obvious; in other cases, not so much. I suppose there's room for very common spelling errors, or very unambiguous ones. But some of those disambig pages are already pretty crowded, as is -- if it improves usability, by all means go for it, but be careful that it *does* in fact improve usability. Or that's how I figure it, anyway. On 11/20/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:

We haven't been t trying to provide a complete phonetic index--though this might be a useful goal for a (very large) project. But some terms are so often confused that it is generally helpful to include them. Obviously the truly illiterate will not be reading WP, but the beginning readers will, and the readers of WP-en will certainly include those with minimal proficiency in the language--and English spelling is a notorious source of difficulty to learners. Further, many English speaking well-educated people are dyslexic or have other difficulty with written language--not all will be helped by adding homophones, but some will. The balances between what is helpful and what is out of place must vary--in general I would say WP-en has too few, not too many. One of the terms in your disambiguation page example is jiu, a Chinese wine. If I had only heard the word, i would be most unlikely to guess at the English spelling. Even if I were a Chinese speaker, I might not have been able to guess at the spelling in a language so foreign as English. On 11/20/06, Oldak Quill <oldakquill(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.