Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7697305-20140720031357

Hi everyone.

What do you all think of removing/retooling pages which have been identified as "disambiguations" (with the  template), but don't actually fit the definition of the term (as defined by Wikipedia)? I mean, the way such pages are generally used is to provide links to multiple pages which have the same name which would be in danger of being confused otherwise, but the closest we come on this wiki to such situations are pairs of critters and their item versions (like Squirrel and Squirrel (Material)). Considering that the potential for confusion between such pairs is much, much smaller than, say, all of the different uses of "Mercury" on Wikipedia, we might be able to get away with just having short blurbs at the top of pages with similar names leading to their counterparts (like the notes at the top of Iron Broadsword and Iron Shortsword, for example).

For clarity, this would likely result in the deletion of two-pages disambigs like Iron Sword (Disambiguation), while larger disambiguation pages like Chair (Disambiguation) would lose the disambig tag but be expanded with more general info. Under this system, what to do with titles like Iron Sword would also be up for debate.

Thoughts? 