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Post proposed tools for discussion here.
- There are many thousands of disambiguation pages. They're all in various states of conformance to the Manual of Style, and they all see different amounts of traffic. Thus, we need a way to:
- Systematize, so that we know which disambigs need work and which are done.
- Prioritize, so that we can work on the most oft-used pages first, and leave out-of-the-way ones until later.
--Smack (talk) 03:18, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
- Post comments here
- Fixing links to disambigs is mind-numbing. In my experience, after half an hour of fixing links, my head starts to swim and I have to sit and vegetate for a while. If I interrupt my progress periodically to fix pages that obviously have other problems, I can fix about forty pages in that time. To me, that's not satisfactory. It would be nice to have a bot, similar to the one used for the Wiki Syntax project. This bot would do three things:
- Identify every page that links to a disambig page (using Category:Disambiguation and Special:Whatlinkshere)
- Search through each of these pages for every link to a disambig
- Generate a link to an edit window in which every one of these links has been suitably marked, maybe like this: ].
--Smack (talk) 03:18, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
- Post comments here
Scope addition suggested
3. addition of usage notes to disambiguation discussion pages
Several of the dab templates for use in the main article space do not have clear usage guidelines/suggestions associated with them. This could be rectified.
4. monitoring of dab-template repertoire
The template I listed on the main page which does not appear in the Template Messages: General listing is {{TLAdisambig}}, which I ran across accidentally about a month ago. This WikiProject could take stewardship of the representation of disambiguation-related templates in the Template Messages page set and actively contribute to discussions regarding deletion and creation of templates in this space.
Thoughts?
Courtland 04:36, July 20, 2005 (UTC)
Page titling
Another possible expansion of scope: correcting page titling. Some dab pages are named Glop (disambiguation) but have Glop as a redirect, or vice versa. This might be too big a can of worms, though.
And then there's the fact that Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Uranus are primary topic pages but Saturn, Neptune, and Pluto are dab pages. (Mercury is a special case because of the element.) I put Venus on Requested Moves to move it to "Venus (planet)" (and turn Venus into a dab) and that idea got soundly trounced, so probably Saturn, Neptune, and Pluto should become planet pages.
Also, some pages titled Glop (1989 movie) have a dablink to Glop (disambiguation) even though it's not necessary.
I'm thrilled that somebody started this project, however, and am eager to dig in! —Wahoofive (talk) 07:33, 20 July 2005 (UTC)