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== Disambiguation pages == | == Disambiguation pages == | ||
You've been creating a few disambiguation pages recently, but I think you may misunderstand the purpose of these pages. The reason to have a disambiguation page is when there is ambiguity in what a reader is searching for. This is most important when multiple articles would otherwise have the same name. On Pikipedia we have lots of redirects from the name of a real-world thing to the name of an article so people who don't know the official name can still find what they're looking for by searching, but if that real-world thing could apply to multiple pages, then a disambiguation page is needed. Disambiguation pages are not needed for pages which share a word in their title, since they wouldn't really help people searching the wiki to find the right page. One thing to note is that the page title only needs to have "(disambiguation)" when there's an article that deserves the main title (e.g. [[Gear]] for the upgrade mechanic and [[Gear (disambiguation)]] for a list of treasures that are gears) or when no article deserves the main title (e.g. [[Challenge Mode (disambiguation)]]). — [[User:Soprano|'''Soprano''']]<sub>[[User talk:Soprano|''(talk)'']]</sub> 03:59, November 11, 2023 (EST) | You've been creating a few disambiguation pages recently, but I think you may misunderstand the purpose of these pages. The reason to have a disambiguation page is when there is ambiguity in what a reader is searching for. This is most important when multiple articles would otherwise have the same name. On Pikipedia we have lots of redirects from the name of a real-world thing to the name of an article so people who don't know the official name can still find what they're looking for by searching, but if that real-world thing could apply to multiple pages, then a disambiguation page is needed. Disambiguation pages are not needed for pages which share a word in their title, since they wouldn't really help people searching the wiki to find the right page. One thing to note is that the page title only needs to have "(disambiguation)" when there's an article that deserves the main title (e.g. [[Gear]] for the upgrade mechanic and [[Gear (disambiguation)]] for a list of treasures that are gears) or when no article deserves the main title (e.g. [[Challenge Mode (disambiguation)]]). — [[User:Soprano|'''Soprano''']]<sub>[[User talk:Soprano|''(talk)'']]</sub> 03:59, November 11, 2023 (EST) | ||
:AH my bad, my bad. So instead it would be something like 'Pear' as there's the [[Crunchy Deluge]] and the [[Tremendous Sniffer]], which are both pears. Similar to the [[Melon]] one which has the watermelon, cantaloupe melon and ones from {{pb}}. — [[User:Chazmatron|'''Chazmatron''']]<sub>[[User talk:Chazmatron|''(talk)'']]</sub> 10:01, November 11, 2023 (BST) | |||