[WikiEN-l] Re: Re: WikiProjects overriding global guidelines?

Tue Jun 14 17:16:45 UTC 2005

"Bryan Derksen" <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote in 
message news:42AF0E66.2080500 at shaw.ca...
> Phil Boswell wrote:
>>For me, this goes to the "principle of least astonishment".
>>The titles of many episodes are common phrases. It is not unlikely that 
>>someone might link to that phrase. It is a good thing that the default 
>>target for such a link is **not** a TV episode which happens to use it.
> But in those cases wouldn't it be more appropriate to actually have an 
> article about the common phrase? That way the normal disambiguation state 
> kicks in and a parenthetical is warranted. Other episodes with titles that 
> aren't common phrases wouldn't be disambiguated, but they also wouldn't be 
> astonishing so they wouldn't need a special rule like this.

Bryan he speak good sense :-)

Yes, I absolutely agree. The point being that if the link to such a common 
phrase comes up "blue", editors will assume that such an article already 
exists, whereas if it comes up "red" they might be inclined to go and write 
it.
-- 
Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]]