[Wikipedia-l] Re: Software Assisted Context Resolution (from wikitech-l)

Mon Mar 31 12:27:19 UTC 2003

> > * The original page is moved to a disambiguated name. This name is 
>selected
> > by the user who creates the second page.
> > * All existing links are updated via the pipe trick to point to the
> > newly-disambiguated primary article.
>
>Sounds like a bad idea - any pages that previously referred to the old
>page _wrongly_ would now be even more wrong. There will be rare cases where
>one disambiguation subject would be the only one that had links, but more
>commonly there are a few links that go to other disambiguation subjects. So
>I would very much prefer to have disambiguation done by hand, or at least
>under human control.

I did have another idea for what to do in this case. Perhaps all the links 
to the old page could remain pointing to what is now an automated 
disambiguation page. Readers (not necessarily editors) could be prompted to 
select the right link. Their choice is reflected by updating the referring 
page. Of course the link could be manually fixed later, if something goes 
wrong.

-- Tim Starling.

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