Talk:Powers

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Do NOT add other uses of "power" or "powers" here. Everything other than the surname Powers belongs at Power.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Srleffler (talk • contribs) 04:55, 17 May 2006

Uh... says who? The edit that you removed was a link to the critically acclaimed comic book series named Powers. It's not named "Power". It is not about "forces and abilities". It is not reasonable to only list the series under that page.
Really, how on earth is anyone supposed to find information about it if they cannot search for it by name and don't remember the author, and typing in the series' name doesn't get them what they need, even though the article exists? I mean, what kind of a disambiguation page is this supposed to be? Why does this particular generic disambiguation page only accept the names of people, whereas multiple other generic disambiguation pages actually serve the purpose of disambiguation? If you really want this article to be a disambiguation page about people with the last name of Powers and only a disambiguation page about people with the last name of Powers, may I suggest you move it to Powers (surname) (which is a well-established practice) so that it's obvious to everyone that the page intentionally has a very limited scope? (Although I must say that I question the need for that as long as there are only six people with this particular surname, but anyway.) In fact, on further reflection, I have to say that if you really insist that nothing but people may be listed here, then you should move the page. Otherwise it just makes no sense to enforce a policy like this. If nothing else, how could anyone know that they aren't supposed to add anything other than people here? -- Captain Disdain 05:50, 17 May 2006 (UTC)