Wikipedia talk:Links to (disambiguation) pages

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The article says:

Pages and redirects should be added in the following format:

#[[ATB (disambiguation)]]

To save space, don't add a pipe to the link.

I think it would actually make the whole thing a lot clearer if pipes were added, since the (disambiguation) suffices take up most of the space on screen, and are distracting. There used to be a type of HTML list (the DIR list) which allowed the browser to display multiple columns, like a directory listing: this would be ideal for this scenario if it were not for the fact that this type of list is now deprecated. --Phil | Talk 11:03, Apr 26, 2004 (UTC)

"The nice thing about deprecated HTML tags is that they always work." .. Ok <dir> proves it wrong, but did it ever work?

I was thinking about the source when writing about the space. As this page can easily be updated from the database .. maybe <small> is sufficient to reduce the display size ;-) . Anyways, feel free to add the pipe if you really want to. -- User:Docu

[edit] /How to update

What is it?

[edit] more than 100k long - split?

«This page is 104 kilobytes long.» That makes it harder to update manually. Shouldn't it be split? Will it cause any other problems? If to split how? Subpages by letter? Or should I forget about updating it at all? --Nabla 13:44, 2005 Jun 8 (UTC)

I got the impression from Wikipedia:Links to (disambiguation) pages/How to update that this list was actually generated by a database query, so I didn't think people would be updating it manually at all. But yes, the list is getting so long it should be split up into subpages, the way Wikipedia:Links to disambiguation pages is. Noel (talk) 00:27, 20 July 2005 (UTC)