Talk:Atlantis (disambiguation)

message: Someone needs to add links to this page from every disambiguated article listed.  71.129.138.30 02:13, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Eleusis 07:39, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Adding links

message: I suddenly had a thought that "Atlantis" can also be a given name... Why isn't it included here? Shannon1talk contribs 01:01, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Given name? 

message: I've added years to this section a couple times, and they keep being removed without explanation.  May I ask whoever is removing them to please explain their reasoning? --Elonka 03:44, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Someone looking for the album by a particular artist isn't going to be helped by the year. Placing just the bare year as a description of the album link when the rest of the descriptions are actual descriptions might be unhelpful. If someone is looking for an album Atlantis, they are not going to know the year but not know the artist, so none of the articles are rendered more unambiguous with the addition of the year -- the mention of the artist fully disambiguates them, so the title alone is "just sufficient to allow the reader to find the correct link." -- JHunterJ (talk) 13:37, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thank you for engaging in discussion.  I do agree that if the years are missing, it might not be essential to add them, but once the years are there, I don't see that they are such an encumbrance that they should be immediately removed.  My own opinion is that the year is helpful.  For example, if an article about a 1973 event said something like, "John Doe was influenced by the songs from his new Atlantis album", then if the years were on the disambig page, it would help an editor to rapidly identify (or at least narrow) which albums were being referred to, which is the whole point of a disambiguation page. Or is there a policy or guideline against the inclusion of the years somewhere? --Elonka 17:00, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The "just sufficient to allow the reader to find the correct link" comes from WP:MOSDAB. -- JHunterJ (talk) 18:22, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  I am well familiar with WP:MOSDAB, and I see no conflict between "just sufficient", and adding years.  We routinely add years to many aspects of disambiguation pages. --Elonka 21:33, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Other antecedents of "we" also routinely remove years from many aspects of disambiguation pages (such as from entries that don't require any description). I'll take a shot at restoring them here in a non-description way, to see if that works for both of us. -- JHunterJ (talk) 00:05, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Consensus achieved!  I concur with your edits, thanks for being willing to talk things out.  :) --Elonka 01:27, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Album years

message: Kintaro said "There are nine elements on the list not being blue links and there are people insisting on deleting or punting on coment only two of them. Be equal and honest or don't edit the page." Kintaro, there are no entries on the dab page that do not have blue links. There are nine that do not have blue links as the main entry, but that each have a blue link in the description directing readers to another article where they might find more information. Please include a blue link in the description for each red link entry. Also, see WP:BRD. -- JHunterJ (talk) 12:26, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Good... now I do understand, thank you. Kintaro (talk) 22:30, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links to mentions