Talk:Undine

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[edit] Style

Please:

• alphabetize the list
• be consistent, use italics on all titles or in none but first check style manual
• complete links to authors

Jclerman 14:58, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(disambiguation_pages). Alphabetizing: A matter of taste maybe, but I prefer to put the most common uses first, or to sort chronologically. Besides, by which word would one alphabetize? Italics: Agreed. Links to authors: I agree with the Manual of Style that a disambig page should have only links to the disambiguated pages in order to be less confusing visually. --Chl 15:56, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Most common uses depend on the brain of the beholder ;-)

For me is 1st. Ondine (play), 2nd. Undine, Last Ondine (actor). For other users it's completely different. A neutral alphabetizing is the ASCII sorting algorithm. If the list would contain only a few items I wouldn't care about the order, but with such a long list it's a pain in the mouse ;-) to find an item. Chronological sorting requires that the user knows the date corresponding to each entry and which criterion has been used to asign a date... For me it would be like a blind date ;-) OK with delinking authors (I haven't read the MOS...).

Jclerman 16:10, 4 March 2006 (UTC)