[WikiEN-l] Disambiguation in the same category

Tue Apr 5 16:44:25 UTC 2005

If they have truly identical names, can they be distinguished by their birth year?

Theo

On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 17:26:31 +0100, Kevin Rector wrote:
> I need some advice. What should I do when there are two people in
> the
>
> same category with the same name? For instance, if there were two
> people
> name Joe Blow and one was a soldier and one an author I could do
> something like this: Joe Blow (author)|]] and [[Joe Blow
> (soldier)|]].
> But what do I do if they are the same thing.
>
> Here's a real world example, there are two ice hockey players named
> Petr
> Sykora. They are both Czech, both have played in the NHL and both
> are
> notable enough for an article. Do I make the most notable (he
> already
> has an article) [[Petr Sykora]] and the less notable [[Petr Sykora
> (2)]]? If not, how do I handle this? Thanks.