Difference between revisions of "Help talk:Disambiguation"

Revision as of 05:35, 4 February 2009

"In this case it is achieved using Mercury as a disambiguation page." The irony, of course, being that it is not a disambiguation page. And since there are only two things in Eve that are referred to as Mercury that I can think of (the moon mineral and the ISD department), it can make do with the disambiguation link discussed later on the page . . . maybe you should use a different example, CCP? --Garion Avarr 03:17, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Over agressive disambiguation

By forcing (fitting), (player), (corporation), (guide) and other disambiguations to article names, you are breaking the simplicity rule of wiki media and its disambiguation rules. e.g. Salvaging, Salvaging (Guide) and Salvaging guide all refer to same thing, but yet they are scattered, thus disambiguation is pointless. If the article is about Ishkur, how to fit such wessel should be in the same article. Or are we fitting some other ship than ishkur in Ishkur (Fitting) article? Also capitalziation the names inside of ()'s also break naming conventions rules. Top of that, it renders the info from database useless as the FACTs are separated from WIKIs. BlackSmith Sisunautti 10:07, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi,

There are a few reasons that it was decided to have (Fitting), (Chronicle), (Player corporation) etc appended to articles, one of the biggest reasons was the autolinker that is installed here, which, if some of these page titles are common and likely to show up a lot, the autolinker will link them everywhere in the EVElopedia. That involves a lot of work to remove them afterwords, as currently the only way to do so is to add <nowiki></nowiki> to every occurrence of the word. Another reason in regards to the ship pages article you linked; long pages currently break the rendering of the EVElopedia in the in game browser, and this was one way that we could both limit the length of the page, as well as keep information relevant to what the person was searching for.

The Salvaging guide and Salvaging (Guide) pages I wasn't aware of before now, and I will look at merging the two of them after this reply.

Bad capitalization of page titles is something we are working on dealing with just now. Not sure what your last comment on the item database is meant to mean, sorry.

Regards ISD Erilus Nex 11:35, 4 February 2009 (UTC)