Board Thread:Improvements and Suggestions/@comment-1476364-20160825014404/@comment-978785-20170829130623

I just noticed the thread here while browsing the forums and it seems I'm a bad guy as I kinda reverted the changes mentioned here :P.

I kinda understand the original idea, but I found the end result overly confusing. From what I see here, Orkman wanted to separate the pages of the similar name, as if someone typed just "Friendly Arm", he was brought with two pages with very similar (but unique nevertheless) names: Friendly Arm Inn and The Friendly Arm.

Originally, a disambiguation page was planned, however, over the course it was decided not to create one which sounded fine at first, however I think it only led to confusion, since someone typing Friendly Arm Inn or The Friendly Arm was always ending up in the redirected page – which isn't bad by itself, but not tidy either way, especially since one had to to avoid redirects in interwiki links, too.

Anyway, since the pages had unique names and were not colliding with themselves, I think it's better to leave that to templates to indicate the viewers that they might be looking for another page - similar to how Wikipedia does, for example: Black Isle: ''This article is about the geographic area in Scotland. For the games developer, see Black Isle Studios. For other uses, see Black Island (disambiguation).'' – i.e. pick one article for the name and only use parentheses if the names collides.

I keep using template for now, but I think that eventually we will need an improved template, so it can add a text similar how the Black Isle example does – in case of the Friendly Arm: Not to be confused with Friendly Arm Inn (arena) or The Friendly Arm Inn (quest). – i.e. to allow the template to receive another parameter with the textual description.