Template talk:Disambiguation

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[edit] Good idea; now can we have categories to save time?

This looks like a very good idea.

I've not looked at every nuance, but I followed one name through. We could very easily have such persons in their own categories (eg category:John Doe) so that they would list automatically on the disambiguation page, which could be just the category page itself.

In fact, to reduce work, we could have a [[category:''full name without dates etc'']] line built into the standard "template" so that every person in the database was in that category as well as the surname category. A template within the template (one of those amazing things with three or more pairs of braces) might automate the whole thing a bit further; but without that it would be easy to paste the person's name into the space. A person who went by two or more names (eg most married women in "European" society) could easily be put in a category for each.

Comments?

Robin Patterson 00:24, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

The name category idea sounds great! That would automate things nicely... hadn't thought of that. Under the Dutch naming system, names repeat every other generation, so manual addition of those names could get to be tedious. Thanks for the suggestion. Briantice 13:09, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguation pages

I notice that we don't at this moment have our own template:disambig, which is a standard elsewhere in MediaWiki for starting a page where you list the alternatives. There is a "shared one" on Central Wikia, which can be used if we find out how: w:template:disambig. Robin Patterson 22:34, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

We now have our own Template:Disambig, which is a standard in MediaWiki for starting a page where you list the alternatives and invite people to redirect if they came from an internal link.

Now how to tie it in with Brian's idea? His template is more of a "disambig page locator". I've put a note on Template talk:Disambig saying that his one can be added to all the pages mentioned. Robin Patterson 01:01, 3 October 2006 (UTC)