Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1251315-20150307101537

Hello

So as we're aware, characters/quests/items etc get disambiguated if there's another of the same name on the wiki. However, in several cases, 2-link disambiguations exist, for which they need cleared up (aka, we remove the disambiguation, and then move the most likely target for that title over the disambiguation and fix the links to point at that).

This makes sense for characters/quests/items etc, but we don't currently remove disambiguations for any locations. Current practice is that all locations should stay disambiguated, with 2-link disambiguations being deleted, but nothing replacing them.

This isn't very consistent. If we're going to remove disambigs for characters/quests/items etc, then doesn't it make sense to simply remove 2-link disambigs for locations as well? Also, by doing this, it makes it more likely that the location in which a disambiguation was deleted will be recreated by a passing user, unnecessarily meaning that someone will need to go and remove it, which can be prevented by simply making sure the disambiguations are replaced with something.

From my own personal experience on other wiki's, and even here, articles are hard to find due to disambiguations. When I'm in-game and I need to find something quickly, I just type the exact name into the search bar and am not interested in waiting for autocomplete to give me suggestions. This means that I will be directed to a page containing a notice indicating the page was removed. For other users, this might result in them questioning whether we're actually bothering to document everything, or if the article doesn't exist yet and needs to be created, which they will do, not realising the article exists under a disambiguated title.

Please leave your thoughts below and I'll ask CCC/Atvelonis to highlight this. 