Talk:Aperture (disambiguation)

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[edit] Aperture Science

Why doesn't Aperture Science deserve its own note on this article? It's... well-known-ish. I'd say it's notable. I'd like to hear reasons against it, and perhaps have explained to me what makes an article noteworthy enough.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Shadow Scythe of Strongbadia?! (talk • contribs) 22:10, January 19, 2008

I think that not ambiguous with "aperture", as the edit summary said, was a better reason than anything about what it might deserve. Dicklyon (talk) 04:52, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

As Dick pointed out, it can't appear in the main list because it isn't ambiguous. Disambiguation pages are a navigation aid to assist readers in cases where several unrelated things have the same or similar names. They are not a general-purpose index. No reasonable person is going to make a link to aperture and expect to get an article on Aperture Science, so it has no reason to appear here.

Dab pages often (as this one does) also contain a "see also" list at the end, which contains terms which are not ambiguous but could be confused with the ambiguous term or are otherwise very strongly related to it. Aperture Science doesn't really qualify there either.

The thing is, though, that Aperture Science may not deserve its own article, but shouldn't this page at least contain a link that redirects those searching for Aperture Science to the article about the game Portal? Search already does. —Preceding unsigned comment added by GreenFox12 (talk • contribs) 16:56, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

No, because anyone searching for "Aperture Science" does get the correct article. Someone searching for "Aperture" when they want "Aperture Science" is just being dumb. They will end up here, realize they did something stupid, and enter the correct search term. There is no need to disambiguate "Aperture Science".--Srleffler (talk) 17:22, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

The complete guidelines on disambiguation pages are at Wikipedia:Disambiguation and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages).--Srleffler (talk) 06:41, 20 January 2008 (UTC)