[WikiEN-l] Redlinks or redirects?

Thu Jun 29 15:38:18 UTC 2006

Steve Bennett wrote:
> There have certainly been cases where I've been redirected without
> understanding why (usually because the topic is some synonym for some
> obscure point discussed in the 14th paragraph...) It's not obvious how
> to then fix the problem though - you almost need a "Topics discussed
> in this article" box up the top.

The "Table of Contents" box can serve this purpose in many cases,
fortunately. Subtopics often get their own section, whose header shows
up there.

> Unlike a real encyclopaedia, we don't seem willing or able to have
> incredibly short articles that say things like "Wreckage: temporary
> name given to English pop group Ibex in 1970. See [[Ibex (group)]]".

In this case a disambiguation page would be able to hold this
information, but I can see the problem where a non-ambiguous name comes
in. Hopefully one can come up with enough information to warrant a
section header for the topic, at least.

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