User:Mzs/TODO/Disambiguations

A list of candidates for creating disambiguation pages.

A few notes to self (and, theoretically, anybody else who decides to use this table for something)

About the current content of the table

• This table was created with a mix of automation and manual work. Expect the worst of both worlds.
• This table is currently raw: I found pages with sufficiently similar names but have not yet weeded out rows that require no action.
• I've separated out existing disambiguations to a separate table. While they obviously don't qualify as "candidates for creating disambiguation pages", it's worth going over them—especially the older ones—to ensure they're not missing anything, style matches current conventions, etc.
  • A few rows have already been looked at and removed. My current plan is to remove rows as I find ones that require no work and to keep (with a mark of completion) ones that I finish work on. I may change my mind on both of these ideas and/or be inconsistent with them, but they're the idea for now.
• In addition to pages that definitely should should get a disambig, there are some entries that definitely shouldn't (not yet filtered out yet), some that shouldn't under current practices but are worth looking into whether current practices should change, and some I want to look at for other reasons while I'm looking at similarly-named pages.

About disambiguation best practice (a mix of current patterns, me attempting to decree patterns, and me musing over ideas):

• Ideals to strive for:
  • If the reader know the in-game name of an action/quality/storylet/whatever, it should never be necessary to search or guess to find the corresponding wiki page.
  • Due to the way {{IL}} works as well as the need to be linked more frequently, Qualities, Items, and Places should always get priority for the primary page name.
  • Even with {{disambig}} pages to help direct the reader, it should be reasonably easy to guess the appended qualifier to navigate directly to the page.
• Best practices to uphold these ideals:
  • In most cases of name collisions, the primary page name should always be the {{disambig}} pointing to all pages for that name.
  • If one of the pages is subject to {{IL}} (such as a Quality page), it should receive the primary page name and the {{disambig}} page should have " (disambiguation)" appended to the page name.
  • All disambiguated pages—except, of course, ones that get the primary name—should have an appended parenthetical with a short identifying tag. In the rare case where the best identifier is a number, that number should simply be appended on its own rather than in parentheses.
• Examples:
  • Walk North is an ideal example of a {{disambig}} with well-named options: Walk North (Near Arbor) and Walk South (Far Arbor)
  • Give your reflection what it wants is a great example of a well-organised {{disambig}}, although the options are suboptimally named.
  • Sun-Seared Silken Gloves is—correctly—used for the item of that name, but there are also two actions of the same name. These actions are also well-named—Sun-Seared Silken Gloves (10 FATE) and Sun-Seared Silken Gloves (Option). A {{disambig}} should be created at Sun-Seared Silken Gloves (disambiguation), linking to all three relevant pages.

Candidate Table

!!!! The below table has been commented out to allow easier finding of missing content post the July 2023 wiki crash. Otherwise, this page would be responsible for a large chunk of pages on the list of missing pages.