Talk:Interim

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Per a request, the page "Interim" was moved to "Interim (album)", on the grounds that the great majority of people typing "Interim" are looking for a definition or following a link, not looking for an obscure album by a band I've never heard of. But there are many articles with the word "interim" linked. (Up 'til now I guess that those links would have taken the reader to the Fall album, probably to his surprise.) Rather than de-link all those links - after all, they wouldn't have been made links if the editor hadn't assumed that there was something useful to say about the word or concept "interim" - I created this article. But I don't have anything useful to say about the word "interim". But maybe you do? Herostratus 06:00, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] why?

This article has no links to it. It is a common English word. Why this article? Hmains 05:14, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I think you mean, it has no links in it; but it has many links to it (see What links here). The problem was that there are about 8 billion wikilinks here, all referring to the word interim; however, in this space, there was an album by a fairly non-notable band, so we had to move the article (see Interim (album)). -Patstuart^talk|edits 15:36, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

I know, I was working on this. Sorry, I was looking at the talk page. Am now looking the article links. My real question: why do we need an article on 'interim'? It is just a word, not a person, place, thing or concept. The article can never be more than a word definition. Wouldn't it be better just to delete all the links to this article and then delete the article as being more appropriate for Wiki dictionary, not WP Hmains 03:38, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes, it might, but the person who created Interim (album) could just move it back under the justification that no disambiguation was needed. But we really don't want that to happen, for said reasons. -Patstuart^talk|edits 05:47, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

So what do we do now. Make a disamg page of it so this won't happen? I see my home dictionary has another meaning that could be used: 'Interim (cap) - any of the three provisional arrangments for the settlement of religious differences between Protestants and Catholics during the Reformation'. Hmains 23:37, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

As best I can tell, we could simply change the content to #REDIRECT[[Wiktionary:Interim]] and it would redir to Wiktionary. But then would we need to put a {{redirect...}} template there in case someone's looking for the album. I don't know of any Wikipedia precedent to handle it this way. Regardless, all the linking articles need to be fixed to link to Wiktionary:Interim instead of here if a definition is what's desired. The Protestant/Catholic Interim could certainly be a valid encyclopedia article if anyone wanted to write it. Cheers, PhilipR 23:58, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia is not a dictionary

WP:WINAD. Not sure if people aren't aware of it, don't understand it, don't like it, or what, but it is a policy. This should be WP:AFD but I'm too lazy to figure out the correct policy right this very moment. I'm sincerely sorry for the people who erroneously linked to this article when they meant to link to Wiktionary, but WINAD is a pretty fundamental policy. Compounding their error by trying to give them something useful but unencyclopedic just postpones the necessary step of having them fix their broken articles. - PhilipR 23:11, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

From WP:IAR - where the rules get in the way of writing and effective encyclopedia, ignore them. That's the case here as much as anything I've seen. -Patstuart^talk|edits 02:22, 10 December 2006 (UTC)