Forum:Disambiguation titles

OK since disambiguation titles across the wiki are named differently I just want to bring forth a discussion for standardisation. I feel we should go with how Wikipedia does it. Which simplified is so:
 * 1) When multiple pages share a title the one of higher importance gets the regular title and the disambig page has the "(disambiguation)" in the title.
 * 2) *The page possessing the default title should display a message linking to the disambiguation page.
 * 3) *If there are only two pages, no disambiguation page should be needed, rather the page possessing the default title should display a message linking to the alternate page (see below for an example).
 * 4) If both are of equal importance or higher importance cannot be established than both the pages get disambiguated titles and the disambiguation page gets the default page.
 * 5) The disambiguation part of the title is lowercase.

For example: "Problem Sleuth" currently has three pages: Problem Sleuth (disambiguation), Problem Sleuth (Adventure), and Problem Sleuth (Character). In this case if we assume both the Adventure and the Character are of equal importance than both keep their disambiguated titles, but the disambiguation changed from their current uppercase to lowercase, and the disambiguation removed from the disambiguation page. If we assume one was to have higher importance than the other (a separate discussion in-itself) than the one deemed to be of higher importance should be given the default page, the disambiguation page keeps its disambiguation and the page of lesser importance has its disambiguation changed to lowercase.

As mentioned above, not every such page should need a disambiguation page either. For example: If the Adventure was given the default page, than the disambiguation page should be deleted and a message along the following lines should be added to the top of the adventure page.


 * This page is about the adventure known as Problem Sleuth, for the character of the same name, see Problem Sleuth (character).

Of course in cases where two pages have different titles but would share a page that would usually be a redirect e.g. TT, GG, TG, and GT they should just be given the default page and no disambiguated titles for any of the pages should be needed.

- The Light6 (talk) 11:38, December 5, 2012 (UTC)