Talk:Star (disambiguation)

message: I still fail to get the point whenever people remove information from a disambiguation page. The star (disambiguation) page is a case in point. I thought the whole idea was to provide those seeking knowledge with all the information there is about a particular subject, with all the different uses of a term. While including a rather obscure Student Action For Refugees (STAR), which I think is perfectly okay, deleting Pamela Anderson's novel Star (novel) and the Star of David (referred to by User:Ant as "redundant") is something I just don't understand.
Could those of you who also think that those two occurrences should not be included here please comment on their removal? <KF> 11:21, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
:I think the point of a disambiguation page is to direct readers to their desired article. When someone types in "Star" do you think they were looking for "Star of David"? I don't think so, that search is too general (Just because David Beckham is a "star" footballer, he shouldn't be on this dab). Dab pages are not here to provide a definition for everything under the sun, just to get you to your article. On the Anderson novel, some believe that red links (links to artciles that don't exist yet) shouldn't go on a dab page. Personally I don't mind having Star (novel). --Commander Keane 15:04, September 10, 2005 (UTC)
::Merge it.  its just a dab page that doent say that its a dab page, we need all the links on one page. the dab page. merge one into the other, I dont care which - jedi of redwall
:::I personally think that someone looking for Star of David may well come to this page - many people who read encyclopedias often don't know the precise names of what they are looking for and have to go to similar articles to narrow it down. Hence the existence of the principle of cross-referencing and blue-linking. And a DAB page is the epitome of such cross-referencing. So, yes, I believe things like Red Star (major cultural symbol) and Pentagram (which leads onto religious versions thereof) are necessarily included here. Especially something like Pentagram, which is a word people will recognize once they see it, but various people I've discussed Wicca (or devil worship!) with throughout my life simply refer to it as "that star in a circle"! And no, that does not make them stupid – it simply means that the encyclopedia has to provide a way for them to get to the article they're looking for. Especially in cases where "star" is part of the name of the article, and especially in disambiguating notions such as the symbolic "star (polygon)" from the geometric "star polygon".BigSteve (talk) 06:00, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Talk

message: Should this page include people named "Star" or "Starr", i.e. Kenneth Starr, Patrick Star? Just a thought.--Atlantima 00:49, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Starr (surname) — Swpbtalk.edits 19:18, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That's good, but where is 'Star (given name)'? I remember seeing some people on the internet who were called Star. And I think at least one is a celebrity. Though of course all celebrities are not in wikipedia. 82.141.116.182 (talk) 02:11, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: People named "Star"?

message: I've added a tag to The Star, proposing that it be merged into here. Some of the information is duplicated, some isn't. I think it makes sense to keep them all together and redirect that here. Anyone have any objections to me doing that? - N (talk) 17:01, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think it should be merged - if people search for "THE Star", they're not looking for information on STARS.  They're looking for things which are specifically called "The Star" - films, stories, whatever.  Yes, some information is duplicated, but that should be no reason to merge them.  I realize that they seem similar, but they're not, and merging them will make it more difficult for a user to find what he's looking for.  It might be better to just add a link at the top, saying "for other uses, see 'The Star' or 'STAR'".  Esn 05:32, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't merge that "the star" has a more specific meaning and there is no reason to make people looking for one of those uses to look through this huge list --T-rex 19:05, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed the tag. I'm fairly indifferent about this now, and there's clearly no consensus to merge. - Nzd (talk) 21:16, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed merge from [[The Star]]

message: Some links are italized while others ain't. Can any one clarify?--Anupam Srivastava 12:20, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Anupamsr. You can find a list of things that should be italicized in the Manual of Style. They're usually used for titles of published works, like books, albums and newspapers. - Nzd (talk) 21:26, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Formatting of the article

message: Would it be worth adding a link to the page on Phosphenes, under the science section?  I was looking for more info on this condition, but only knew it as "seeing stars".  Perhaps the expression is too general to be included on the disambiguation?
Thanks, Extenebris 14:48, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I'm afraid it's too general.  The purpose of disambiguation pages is to navigate readers to articles on all identically called entities (in this case, "(a) star"), but not to those which merely include or mention the word "star" in the title.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 15:34, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Seeing stars

message: Would it be appropriate to include a link referencing "star" as a euphemism for a word I won't repeat here? (For said euphemism being used, see the Rolling Stones song "Star Star" or the REM song "Star Me Kitten". 98.71.153.203 (talk) 00:33, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Star" as a euphemism? 

message: Star (classification) is a fairly lengthy article. Is there a particular reason why it's not linked from this disambiguation article? --τις (talk) 08:11, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Star (classification)]] 

message: This dab page is huge, with over 270 links. About 80 of them are for the plural "Stars". Normally, we keep the singular and the plural disambiguated at the same title. However, there's very little overlap between the two here. Apart from a handful of entries (like Star (glyph) or Star), almost all the entries are proper nouns, which are either only called "Star" (like Star (Bryan Adams song) or are only referred to as "Stars" (like Stars (Australian band)). By mixing together the two sets we're doing a disservice to readers, so I'm proposing a split. – Uanfala (talk) 20:52, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Sound reasoning; I support. Might want to leave a hatnote on each dab though. —swpbT • go beyond • bad idea 14:11, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

text: Support per nom. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 17:45, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split out Stars