Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7697305-20140720031357/@comment-4661596-20140724192213

Reading some of these responses, I'm thinking there may still be some confusion of what the disambigs are, vs a regular page that contains a category of items, like the Swords page and the Dyes page that was mentioned above. These pages do not have the disambig tag on them, so they would likely be left alone, or fixed up. A true disambig page looks more like the Chair page that Forze has cited at the top. It is merely a list of the items, no wordy explanations, pics, charts etc. This Critter (Disambiguation) page is a good example of not only the structure of the disambig page, but also the fact that it is not a true disambig, but merely a list of all the critters, and should be deleted. Using Forze's example of "Mercury", if someone typed simply mercury in the wiki wanting info on the planet, how is the wiki to know which mercury to pull up? Mercury the planet? the element? the God? they all have the EXACT same name, and therefore when typed in, the user would be led to a disambig to pick out which version of Mercury they wanted. Here on the Terraria Wiki, we don't have this confusion of items because even though there may be Wood chair, Golden Chair, etc it's not the exact same even though they share the word "chair". So part of what we are proposing is to not necessarily get rid of all the pages, but remove the disambig from them. Some of the really short lists are probably not needed at all, but the large pages can be renamed and tidied up and still be a handy way to check out all possible swords in game and things like that. I hope this helps to clear things up.