Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Disambiguation/Archive 6

message: Just wanted to know - is there any established policy on character names. Very often some minor character will have a name which is also a common noun with a WP page of its own - e.g. Anole (comics), Rubbermaid (comics). Is it advisable/desirable to create a disambiguation page? Gamesmaster G-9 01:51, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Pages about characters in pop fiction annoy me, but that's largely because I'm biased against popular fiction.  On one hand, I'm loath to legitimize them by making disambiguation pages; on the other hand, I'm loath to tag important articles with references to them. --Smack (talk) 06:38, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Why did you even bother commenting? Ace Class Shadow; My talk. 07:24, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Technically if there are articles by the same name, there should be a disambiguation page.  If there are only two articles by the same name, then all you need are disambiguation links at the top. -- Natalya 15:03, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Because I was too sleepy to realize that I didn't actually have anything constructive to say.  Sorry. --Smack (talk) 04:31, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation with minor comic book characters 

message: I wanted to clean these disamb pages up, but I couldnt decide where to start. Perhaps I can bring it to someone else with a bit more intestinal fortitude's attention? I was wondering if they also needed to be merged. [Bin] & [BIN] --Monotonehell 07:43, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: IMHO, pages like this should be merged only if editors are routinely adding entries to the wrong page (eg. if it would take too much effort to keep them separate, and there's not much point if both are short).  For these two, there seems to be very little overlap (I think the only thing that overlaped was ".bin"), so I personally lean towards keeping them separate.  Anyway, I took a whack at them, but bin could probably use a bit more cleanup.  --Interiot 08:28, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bin and BIN 

message: I'm trying to get Leningrad (a dab) to redirect to St. Petersburg.  Please see Talk:Leningrad#Just my two cents.  (The two cents aren't mine, actually.) --Smack (talk) 06:10, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done.  A random sampling of backlinks shows that almost all uses are to the city.  --Interiot 07:13, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Leningrad 

message: Is there a WikiProject Disambiguation Member userbox? TonyTheTiger 18:32, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There's , but that's specifically for people who repair links to dab pages. Other than that, I don't know of anything. --Tkynerd 19:34, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Disambiguation Member 

message: I would like to request feedback on Robert Johnson.  I like the way it has evolved.  I have tried to format other dab pages like and have been contested by other editors on the see also section.  The major points of contestation are the propriety of including the surname and the list of names in the see also section.  I think in Human name dabs these should be standard and this dab makes it clear why.  If people agree, I would even like to note such a belief on the MOSDAB page itself. TonyTheTiger 22:35, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: P.S. The best place for comment is here at MOSDAB. TonyTheTiger 20:07, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed exemplary Human name dab 

message: There is an ongoing discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style %28Japan-related articles%29#Designated cities concerning ambiguous or misdirected links and City, State naming formats. Some cities which are at simple names (e.g. Kyoto) are receiving many links intended for the state named after them (e.g. Kyoto Prefecture). However, because the governments of the cities are not subordinate to the governments of the prefectures, City, State is considered an inaccurate page name for the city in these cases. Please stop by and leave comments on this problem. Dekimasu 02:13, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for comment at MOS-JP 

message: Please see Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:Roaddis, Template:Roadis, Template:Schooldis, Template:Shipindex, Template:Songdis to discuss deletion of various specialized disambig templates. --Russ (talk) 15:53, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambig templates proliferating again 

message: Now, whatever with these pages?
A lot of them were created by Cardsplayer4life, but not all of them — and from what I gather it looks like (s)he just created them for the sake of completion (so nothing to do with him/her).  Most of them started as redirects made by various users (possibly unaware that there are lots of universities in the world).
Personally, I'm not convinced that they need to exist at all.  People who refer to universities as U of A or something like that almost invariably know that it's an abbreviation, can apply to several hundred universities and it most certainly not the name of the university.  Can someone really expect to type that in, click "Go", and get somewhere?  You wouldn't even type that kind of thing into Google — let alone have it in here.
If people are in agreement with me, then they all need to be either deleted or redirected to UA, UB, and so on (probably the latter, I think).  Otherwise, all of them need to be marked for cleanup (they are in a rather poor state, if you ask me).  Anyone else?  Neonumbers 05:06, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Referring to universities with abbreviations of the form "U of A" seems to me to be an Americanism. Abbreviations for British universities are idiosyncratic; e.g. the University of Wales was never known as "U of W", but just "University of Wales", while consituent universities are e.g. "UWS" for Swansea (before it ceceded anyway), "Aber" for Aberystwyth. I've certainly never heard or read anyone refer to Exeter Uni as "U of E"! Also, I would be very, very surprised if people really referred to e.g. Belgian universities that way. If these pages deserve to exist at all, they should link only to articles where use for that university is verifiable. I suspect such verifiability is a pipe dream even for American universities. Hairy Dude 18:08, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  We could add  to them, though that might not be 100% clear.  Perhaps we need a new disambig maintenance tag that says something like "Disambiguation pages are not indescriminate lists, and should only contain entries that are very frequently referred to simply as .  and where the relationship is verifiable."?  Would a tag like that be useful in enough situations to be worth creating?   --Interiot 18:30, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The initials are extremely commonly used in the USA, including the mainstream press.  The pages should stay assuming there are entries on each one (and not just redirected to UA), but there may be schools on there that don't use the abbreviations (and some that use UA instead of U of A for example)  A google search is an easy place to start.  --Milo H Minderbinder 19:13, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: But even if they are referred to as that abbreviation, for the purposes of an encyclopedia, if you were looking for the University of Lincoln, you'd look up the "University of Lincoln", in the common-sense knowledge that typing in initials for a university is a very untactful search method, let alone a "Go" method.  Imagine you were looking for a specific university.  What would you type into the search box?  Isn't it reasonable to expect someone else to do the same or similar?  Neonumbers 23:56, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[U of A]], [[U of B]], [[U of C]], [[U of D]], ... 

message: Hi, everyone. I wanted to let you know that I've just encountered a problem with a template on one of the pages I was trying to dab, and got help to solve it at WP:VPT. The problem is that Template:Infobox Former Country automatically replaces plain text with wikilinks where it can find an article, but sometimes this results in links to dab pages, which then need to be disambiguated. The solution is to simply replace the plain text with the full piped disambiguated link. An example is at Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, where I replaced the text "English" for the language in the template with English. Just letting y'all know in case you encounter this problem too. Also, I don't know whether there are any other templates that do this; if so, they may also cause the same problem. --Tkynerd 15:34, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Follow-up to the above: User:52 Pickup, who works with the Infobox Former Country template, changed the template to automatically dab the link as long as only a single language is put into the template. If any of you encounter similar problems with other templates, be sure to raise the issue on the template's talk page, and perhaps its maintainer(s) will fix the problem. --Tkynerd 00:41, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problem with some templates, and solution 

message: Thanks to everyone who helped clear pages from this list from the November 4 2006 database dump. The list (originally at 1,092 pages) has been reduced all the way to 0! Congratulations! If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka 01:37, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Malplaced disambiguation pages 

message: Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention.  Badbilltucker 18:42, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia Day Awards 

message: I'm tempted to delete the disambig template from this page. It seems more article-ish than dab-ish. Any opinions? (Perhaps reply to the Talk:10 cents page for history's sake) - grubber 19:21, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[10 cents]] 

message: Should dab pages that are also names contain the etymology, origins, or cognates of the name? (Examples: Fuqua, Justin) On one hand, it's not the purpose of a dab page, but on the other hand, where would we put that info? - grubber 06:22, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure that information even belongs on Wikipedia. That's dictionary material, which says "Wiktionary" to me. --Tkynerd 06:26, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I have changed James quite a bit. I removed most of the entries, moved the etymologies to James (name) and removed entries present on dab pages (like King James). I would appreciate if someone look at it; it was a bold edit and I'd appreciate a second set of eyes. - grubber 02:30, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: IMHO: your boldness was well justified. I would do almost everything as you did. My only remarks: a) instead of James (surname) (disambiguation) and like, I would create "People named James" or "List of people with the surname James" and like; at the very least, the double brackets were unnecessary - could have been "(surname disambiguation)"; b) I would create sections on ;Name and ;Sports and Entertainment, as there is enough material for each and nothing gets left out; c) link only to album on  the James (song) entry and would remove the redlink (is this a hit song? Will it ever get its own article?); d) finally, I never saw the point of putting Special:Allpages/Jimmy and the like on dab pages (see the Archive5 page (link at the top) for comments on this). --maf 04:40, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name etymologies 

message: Does it make sense to create a category for user pages that indicate what pages one has adopted?  It might be useful to prevent duplication of effort on some pages, among other things.  For example, I could put on my User Page:
Vertigo
Epic
And the category page would be populated with adopted page names that link back to the user who has adopted it.  Unobstrusive to the non-dab focussed editor, but useful for those who might be interested in this information.  A more sophisticated template might be created for the user page that presents the adopted pages in a table there or something.   I'm not completely convinced its useful, but maybe? (John User:Jwy talk) 03:11, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You might want to take a look at the discussion at the top of the page about this topic: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Disambiguation#Adopting_Pages_and_Link_Repair_Banner - it turned out to not be a very popular idea. -- Natalya 14:12, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I did.  I thought this variation took care of some of the issues.  A more careful reading makes me less hopeful about the idea.  (John User:Jwy talk) 14:39, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dab Adoption Category? 

message: I need help explaining the value of a primary use claim to User:Miaers at Talk:University of Wisconsin. There are about 1200 links to the page, 99% of which are meant to be directed to University of Wisconsin-Madison, and so it is currently a redirect. He has focused on the 1% that aren't meant to point there as evidence that there should be a dab page at University of Wisconsin. There was previously a :Template:Redirect tag at the top of University of Wisconsin-Madison, but he and a few other users have recently had the University of Wisconsin (disambiguation) page deleted through AfD (!!). Please help explain the value of fixing 15 links without a dab page as opposed to having 1200 more links to retarget at WP:DPL. Thank you for any assistance. Dekimasuが... 19:06, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There is nothing wrong with the old disambig page. User:Dekimasu is creating a "double redirect" here and he has no solutions about it. Miaers 19:21, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The way it is set up now (at this moment) looks right to me.  University of Wisconsin redirects to University of Wisconsin-Madison.  At the top of the latter page is a note directing users interested in other units of the state university to University of Wisconsin System.  No disambig page at all, and none needed IMHO.  --Russ (talk) 22:44, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

text: I agree with Russ. It makes sense for what is by far the most common use of "University of Wisconsin" to redirect to that meaning at University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a note at the top directing interested readers to the University of Wisconsin System article, which contains all the necessary disambiguating information as far as I can tell. Turning "University of Wisconsin" into a disambiguation page would seems an unnecessary inconvenience for readers more familiar with the very common use of the term to mean UW-Madison. older ≠ wiser 23:02, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

text: FWIW: That's how University of Texas is. - grubber 23:15, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Just have them link to the University of Wisconsin System, and add a paragraph or two on the history of the UW system. – Lordmontu (talk) • (contribs) 00:01, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Miaers isn't the one who had the disambiguation page removed. In fact, I still don't understand the motives behind that removal. DABs are cheap! --Orange Mike 01:03, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry about that. It is only readding that deleted dab page at the plain title that is a problem, and that's what Miaers has proposed (and done a few times). I don't know why it was deleted, but I can understand if some editors thought the information could be incorporated into the University of Wisconsin system article. Dekimasuが... 04:04, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

text: See Talk:University of Wisconsin (disambiguation)#Not related to the University of Wisconsin for one issue that has arisen during the discussion, and which has implications for the existing guidelines. Andrewa 18:33, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Talk:University of Wisconsin]] 

message: One outcome of the above kerfuffle seems to be a proposal to put something like this draft in place of the existing basic dab-page.  It seems somewhat large and un-dabish, and I was wondering if some editors from here might take a look?  My comments on it are here. - David Oberst 02:57, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: See Talk:University of Wisconsin (disambiguation)#Not related to the University of Wisconsin for one issue that has arisen during the discussion, and which has implications for the existing guidelines. Andrewa 18:33, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  UW redux 

message: I've done a bunch of work to clean up Felix and have two requests.  First, this was my biggest dab cleanup, and I'd be happy for a second opinion on the general results.  Second, there was one entry that I left in apparent violation of dab style:
 *Felix - character from the Nintendo video
 game series Golden Sun.
Perhaps this is a good case for IAR, or maybe WP:MOSDAB should be modified to allow piped links in cases like this.  Comments?  Matchups 02:40, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I switch it to:
*Felix - a character from the Nintendo video game series Golden Sun.
which is my preferred way of handling this.  (John User:Jwy talk) 03:36, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Using piping for # links is perfectly acceptable. THere's an exception in the rules for it. Looks like you cleaned the page up pretty good. If you want to do more on it, add some information after the links that have no info on the line yet. Usually copying the first sentence of the article gives you a good starter. Second, I hate long dab pages, but you've trimmed it up from where it began. - grubber 04:20, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks pretty good; nice job giving each entry only one blue link.  A couple of things per the manual of style for disambiguation pages; entries should be sentence fragments, and therefore also shouldn't have periods at the end.  Also, it's general style to describe articles with a comma rather than a dash.  I've taken care of these small changes, but keep up the good work! -- Natalya 01:12, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Felix 

message: ...has been started at Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(disambiguation_pages)#Let.27s_clarify_with_the_various_CC_templates_once_and_for_all (goodness that is a long link!).  Just in case you don't watch both pages, please add your opinions there! -- Natalya 01:12, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: FYI, the , , ,  templates have been put up for deletion as a result of the discussion mentioned. If you'd like to chime in, see the TfD entries. - grubber 18:54, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

text: FYI, it's probably helpful to keep this discussion centralized, perhaps at Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2007_February_9#Counter-proposal so that everyone can see it. -- Natalya 17:43, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A discussion on CC templates... 

message: Just an FYI more because I wasn't sure where to add a link to it anywhere else...  I found this project while going through the "what links here" list for Western Pacific.  One of the regular tasks of Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains is to go through commonly undisambigged links and update them to their correct locations.  Our current work list is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/Todo/Disambig.  Slambo (Speak) 14:24, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Cool!  That sounds a lot like Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links; glad to see that individual Wikiprojects are taking it on too. -- Natalya 17:42, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trains project disambig task 

message: Per the decision at the TfD discussion, all of the CC templates (, , , and ) now redirect to , and no longer need to be used.  The guidelines will be updated accordingly.  Thanks to everyone participated in the discussion - I know we all don't agree, but hopefully we will be benefiting disambiguation pages overall.  -- Natalya 01:13, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: We should get a bot to scour those pages and manually replace them all with .- grubber 14:57, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  User:ST47 volunteered his bot to do that during the TfD.  I'll ping him on User_talk:ST47  to see if he's still willing. -- RoySmith (talk) 18:52, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Running. ST47Talk 19:41, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for taking care of this! -- Natalya 21:18, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

text:  PS, I think "manually" means "done by hand".  If it's done by a bot, wouldn't that be "botanically"?  -- RoySmith (talk) 18:59, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Would you like the links done as well? ST47Talk 20:20, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Which links? -- Natalya 21:20, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Anything linking to, but not transcluding,  ST47Talk 19:02, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm... probably not?  Might that mess with discussions that have gone on referring to them?  -- Natalya 03:13, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Right. OK :) ST47Talk 12:31, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

text: 893 pages contain . See User:STBot for contrib list. ST47Talk 19:43, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

text: 892 processed, one skipped, I will review it after the run. ST47Talk 20:56, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

text: 6213 pages contain . ST47Talk 20:56, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

text: 6136 processed, 77 skipped, will review. ST47Talk 15:40, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

text: 2565 pages contain . ST47Talk 15:40, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

text: review is finished, no transclusions remain. ST47Talk 17:01, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

text: added to queue as cause of some errors in , fixed double redirect, and will review  once that's done. ST47Talk 17:01, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

text: 2540 processed, 25 skipped. ST47Talk 19:59, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

text: 139 pages contain  ST47Talk 19:59, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

text: 139 processed. ST47Talk 20:20, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

text: 11 pages redirect to    or . ST47Talk 20:20, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

text: 11 processed. ST47Talk 20:20, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Job Queue empty. ST47Talk 20:20, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

text: 38 more pages processed. ST47Talk 20:20, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  CC templates now redirect to {{tl|disambig}} 

message: I have started a discussion on Talk:Guard#This is a disambiguation page, not a dictionary entry! about the cleanup of Guard. Since I had my cleanup reversed (and I've done over a hundred cleanups), could I ask that others please take a look at it? Thank you. --maf 04:54, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please help on [[Guard]] 

message: Template talk:Otheruses#"For other articles, see X (disambiguation)."—discuss there. Thanks. Punctured Bicycle 18:41, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed new wording of otheruses template 

message: Is the creation of disambiguation pages for misspellings discouraged? Petadine has been requested at Wikipedia:Requested articles/Applied arts and sciences/Medicine, but it may be a misspelling of 1) Pethidine (i.e. Demerol, an opioid) or 2) Betadine (a type of antiseptic). I checked MoS:DAB, but couldn't really find any definitive advice. I'd appreciate assistance from any members of this project. Thanks, Fvasconcellos 17:27, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: My inclination would be to go for the same guideline as redirects.  If there is a reasonable likelihood that people will look for the topic under the misspelling, then go for it.  If it's bizarre and unlikely, then leave it out.  In this case, Google says it has 604 hits, but only about 35 of these are distinct occurrences in English.  Interestingly, several of these have "(sp?)" or the equivalent, and for most, context suggests they mean Pethidine--there are 102 (gross) hits for "petadine pain" but none for "petadine antiseptic" and only one for "petadine disinfectant."  So my inclination would be to just make it a redirect. Matchups 01:59, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. At 604 Google hits, I think I'll leave this one as a redlink for now :) Fvasconcellos 02:14, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dab pages for misspellings 

message: I would like to get this community's feedback regarding the MOSDAB clause on disambiguation by first names.  The main discussion thread is located here.  Thank you!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 18:58, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation by first name 

message: i tried tidying up Vengeance recently, can somebody review it please? cheers. 81.107.199.220 11:46, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks good to me.  I've had a quick look at "what links here", and as a result, added HMS Vengeance.  IMDb lists ten films called "Vengeance", so fixing the incoming links will need to be done with care, by someone who knows more about film than I do!. CarolGray 13:17, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I fixed title formatting, added some more links based on , rearranged to keep the groups from being so small, removed the link to the director of the vengeance trilogy in favor of keeping the film links, moved the revenge link into the list since there's no primary topic, commented out the star destroyer that isn't mentioned on the linked page, and moved the surname holder to the end of the list.  Maybe some other stuff too. :-) I think that Vengeance should probably be a redirect to Revenge, with the current page moved to Vengeance (disambiguation), in which case the intro could be restored. -- JHunterJ 14:50, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice! (Except for the redlink on that obscure 1970 Chinese movie, imho.) --maf (talk-cont) 21:50, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I turned Vengeance (1970 film) into a stub, so now the page is perfect! Mischievously, --Paul Erik 05:01, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Vengeance]] - need review 

message: I'd like to drag some fellow dab patrollers into supporting me at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Big Four (music). Or not supporting me, if that is your opinion (no grudges, promise). I am the only Keep on this Prod and my purpose is to keep a dab page from getting polluted with OR content.  Thanks! --maf (talk-cont) 18:36, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fellow support needed (or not) 

message: i had a stab at tidying this disambig page, but needs another pair of eyes to check its all ok. cheers! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.27.130.242 (talk) 14:27, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[BBC (disambiguation)]] needs review 

message: Is there a proper way to propose moving a dismabig page to (disambiguation) and redirecting the original page to a primary article? -- pb30<c.t> 01:36, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If you think the issue of which is the primary topic (per Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Primary topic) will be controversial, you can list it at Wikipedia:Requested moves to gather outside opinions. Also, if the title of the primary topic is officially the same as the title of the disambiguation page, it doesn't need to be a redirect. You can request to have that page moved to the location currently occupied by the disambiguation page. What's the page in question? Dekimasuよ! 03:43, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: TSN. I already listed it at WP:RM, but just wanted to make sure that's the best place. -- pb30<c.t> 05:12, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I left a response over there. I'm not sure I agree with you, but I could be swayed. Others will likely want a bit more evidence that it's the primary topic, so if you can give that to them, it would be helpful. Dekimasuよ! 06:09, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposing Rename 

message: I'm once again having trouble logging on to Wikipedia using CorHomo, and I suspect that this time the new CAPTCHA security is the culprit. Is this happening to anyone else? I'm worried that this will render the program obsolete. Dekimasuよ! 05:18, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I had the same problem after putting a wrong password. After using a wrong password, the CAPTCHA is added for a few minutes to the login page, preventing CorHomo to work. --NicoV 17:02, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  CorHomo and CAPTCHA 

message: Talk:Siberia (disambiguation): Please explain to user:Petri Krohn that his addition (if it is correct) belongs to wiktionary, not to disambig page. `'mikka 23:35, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Siberia : 3rd opinion needed 

message: Opinions needed regarding the redirect of ALF to ALF (disambiguation).  Please comment on Talk:ALF_%28disambiguation%29#And_again.  Thank you. —Viriditas | Talk 08:13, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ALF (disambiguation) 

message: This article includes a long list of movies, each with its own wikilink. About half of the links needed disambiguation, so I disambiguated a long list of links. Now someone whose IP address keeps changing is adding more information to the list, but without preserving my disambiguation. I keep re-adding my disambiguations, and he keeps removing some more. My complaints to him go unanswered. Is this a good place to get some allies? Art LaPella 21:11, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The changing IP address doesn't help matters at all, but I left some messages on the talk pages to hopefully get this editor to address the issue.  I do think this is a good place to get the allies, but apart from trying to communicate with the user, I am not sure that other measures should be taken. I'll help and keep an eye on things with you!--Xnuala (talk)(Review) 21:22, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role]] 

message: I'm still new to the MOS for dab pages, as well as the WP page on them, so I was wondering if someone could clear this up for me. When the title of the page makes up only part of the name of the article listed, should the entry be included? For example, on the current revision of Psycho, should the entries on Psycho House and "Psycho Killer" be removed? I'm fairly confident Bates Motel and A Conversation with Norman should be removed as well, or should they be kept because they are closely related? Thanks in advance. Tbone762 01:11, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As I understand it, an article should be listed if someone is likely to have enter the dab word when the information they are looking for is in the article.  I'm not all that strict about removing them.  Sometimes its a case of "what was the name of the song, "Psycho -something-," then it would come in handy.  For your specific case, I wouldn't necesssarily remove House and Killer, but would not think it wrong if you were to make them flow down the drain. (John User:Jwy talk) 02:14, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

text: If the song "Psycho Killer" is often referred to as just "Psycho", it should be listed in its current position. If not, it can be listed in the "See also" section at the discretion of individual editors. Dekimasuよ! 05:43, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the help, guys! Tbone762 09:39, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Beginner on WP:WPDAB