Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages/Archive 25

message: The guideline should be more specific about not disambiguating articles through non-synonymous redirects, or trivia which will never have an article.  Case in point: an edit war over adding Golden Boy (Seinfeld T-shirt) to Golden Boy (disambiguation). (And please vote at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Golden Boy (Seinfeld T-shirt))  —Michael Z. 2006-07-22 18:21 Z
: (the redirect has been deleted, but it used to redirect to The Marine Biologist).  Especially regarding  redirects, I don't think there should be a blanket policy discouraging all of them...  Most likely, the redlink policy should be applied to  redirects (eg. they may be included only when an editor is confident that an encyclopedia article could be written on the more detailed subject).  --Interiot 03:18, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trivia and redirects 

message: Some disagreement over what to list / what not to list on this dab page. Input welcome: Talk:AFD. Thanks/wangi 16:31, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[AFD]] 

message: Is it wrong to separate DAB sections into American and Non-American groups?  (If not, then we inevitably run into recurring debates about order).  Basically, USC has become a habitual problem child.  Input on talk page encouraged.  Thomas B 15:43, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added my comment on the talk page, but it looks good. -- Natalya 21:27, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[USC]] 

message: Are we ever meant to have images on Dab pages? I presume not, but Halo has two, and I see nothing in the style/guidelines about images. --Quiddity•(talk) 18:38, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Only in rare, rare instances where the image assists in the disambiguation.  Examples of this are Congo (disambiguation) and Mississippi Delta (disambiguation).  Since the images at Halo do not, they should probably be removed.  If you're interested, there was more discussion on this in the above section Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(disambiguation_pages)#Images_to_disambig.3F. -- Natalya 20:57, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks :) And I agree with the last entry in that thread, by Commander Keane, that the line "Images are discouraged unless they aid in selecting between articles" should be added to the style guide. --Quiddity•(talk) 21:23, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added it! -- Natalya 22:05, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I support this. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 00:33, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Likewise, it's rare that images aid a dabpage, but when they do it is a great aid. /wangi 23:31, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images 

message: Please take a look into the Kaffir disambiguation page. It contains a collection of terms that involve the word "kaffir", such as Kaffir melon, Kafir harp and much more.  Several my attempts of cleanup were reverted by the "owner and operator" of the page. I would like to have a second opinion. Thank you, Mukadderat 21:55, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I say go ahead and make it into a standards-following DAB page, and not the mess which it is now. – AmbigDexter 16:53, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Kaffir