Talk:Fort Defiance

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There is a redirect at Fort Defiance. As there was a Fort Defiance in Ohio--where Defiance, Ohio and Defiance County, Ohio are today--I would like to make "Fort Defiance" a disambiguation page. Any comments? PedanticallySpeaking 15:21, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] WP:DISAMBIGUATION

Please read and understand the purpose of disambiguation pages. It is only ment to get people to the correct article out of all the articles that would have the same title. Only one item should be linked per line, as the reader should be able to get to links for other topics from within the article. It is not a general advertising area for articles related to a topic that needs a disambiguation page. Only information to get the reader to the correct topic, no piped linking, and only one link per item. The community came up with this, with a consensus. So if anyone disagrees, bring it up here and get the guideline changed. Otherwise please abide by the guideline. Aboutmovies 01:01, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Before you get too self-righteous, you might want to re-read it yourself a little more carefully. The guideline recommends Each bulleted entry should, in almost every case, have exactly one navigable (blue) link; including more than one link can confuse the reader. Not only one link period, but one blue link (and with a caveat for exceptional cases). It is long-standing practice of disambiguation pages to help direct readers to relevant information. If no article exists yet, the next best option is to direct them to a page with the most closely related information available. That is, of courses, assuming that the item needs to be included on the disambiguation page at all. older ≠ wiser 01:46, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

My bad, I only saw the links re-added in the changed area which doesn't show red/blue. I'm just used to people linking everything on disambigious pages (as shown before I cleaned-up the page). Aboutmovies 02:20, 8 May 2007 (UTC)