[[Rush (rock band)]]
" and many of our disambiguation problems would be solved. What do you think? -- Larry Sanger
Somehow, I knew that name (RushBand) would invoke remark. I just copied it from the the entry above it (NirvanaBand). However, I concur with your suggestion and will make the changes when I take the time to learn how (soon, I promise). By the way, any reason why something with parenthesis' around it cannot be wiki'd? -- Invictus
It's not your fault and there's nothing you can do at this point, because the feature hasn't been programmed yet. But CliffordAdams is on record (see feature requests) saying the next version might support the feature. --LS
I advocate the use of disambiguating jump pages. For example, the page Rush? will simply list the alternatives that someone might be looking for. In this way, accidental linking is preserved for the most part. But authors who are aware of where they really want to send people can just send them directly to RushBand, say.
Well, jump pages are good, but it still doesn't solve the problem of what to call the pages one jumps off to. RushBand as a name just sucks. --LS
What he said. --LS
The problem of international titles argues in favor of (C), so that authors won't have to know weird canonization rules or do extra typing to link to "Kurt Gödel", for example. But that brings up some other nasty issues requiring groundwork that I haven't finished yet (soon!)
How about using SubPages?? e.g. Bands/Rush?
See naming conventions for discussion. The main problem with subpages is that it's messy. "The Rolling Stones" and "The Beatles" will never be listed as "Bands/The? Rolling Stones" and "Bands/The? Beatles"; but because "Rush" is an ambiguous word (name), we will make them a subpage of Bands/ ? Nahh... --LS
The problem I see is that anybody who types in something? does not know in advance a) that 'something' is ambigue(?) and b) how the 'disambiguator' e.g. sort has been chosen by previous editors. Idea: Define a topic space on most general level and refer it to a specific page when it is created: so: Rush can pe a page on music themes. IF it is linked from a music page as well then it automatically is linked up to Rush(music)? without (music) to be typed in. And from a medicine page Rush? would point to Rush? in the medicine department. (Are there any musics pages discussing drug themes?) I once thought about (and privately prototyped some kind of dictionary program). I ve come up to the solution, that I had to use a special field entry I calles 'as' ('als' in German). So there are
Well, the newest UseModWiki version has been released, and now we're just waiting for Jason to load it (I guess). Then this entire discussion will be unnecessary; we will be able to write "Delphi (programming language)" and "Delphi (ancient Greek oracle)" and "Delphi (place)". --LMS
This is great. I ve just testet this with (in DE section of WP with Madonna (Musik) and Madonna (Religion) (The capitalization is due to German) Is this now an official policy (I would support)? I think the rule should go like this: Item (most general but still distinctive compartment identifier) as in Delphi (place), Delphi (software) and Delphi (mythology?) StefanRybo