Talk:Solaris

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A quick google search finds hits for:

  • Solaris OS : 47 million
  • Solaris movie: 1.6 million
  • Solaris game : 1.4 million
  • Solaris planet: 1.3 million
  • solaris rock band : 813,000
  • Solaris Lem : 743,000

Given this, I think it's pretty safe to say that the majority of people who would come to this dab page are looking for Solaris the operating system, followed by Solaris the book and the movies it inspired, followed by games involving Solaris (although it's hard to tease this away in a Google search from games available for the Solaris OS), followed by the band. Everything else tails off from there.

If the planet isn't mentioned in the referred page, that should be fixed by adding a mention of it to the page, not deleting it from here. In this case, it turns out it's in the List of towns and locations in Xenogears rather than the main article.

As for the formatting, per WP:MOSDAB#Longer lists the recent reformatting to section headers is acceptable, but I agree that the older format looks better; I added the bolding back. --NapoliRoma 16:32, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Right, and "Java language" returns 210M hits, "Java programming" another 200M, while "Java island" is only 3M and "Java Indonesia" is 1,8M, yet Wikipedia had the sense of keeping the island at Java. Whatever though... I don't care that much.
In case of the floating whatever, I think that lack of mention in the main game article suggests that it is not a major part of the game, and as such does not warrant listing on this disambiguation page. There are a lot of things called "Solaris" out there. If RMS had a machine named "Solaris" (that had no other claim to fame), would we put a link to his article on this page? --74.109.173.23 04:24, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
I agree with you in general, especially including not caring that much... although, here we both are. Kinda sick, ain't it?
I think there's much more of a case to keep Java Java, and if you look at what links to it, there are over 500 links from pages that refer to the island, and less than a couple of dozen that look to be mistaken references to the programming language. On the other hand, last weekend I dab'ed all the ambiguous links from articles to Solaris; 14 of them were intended to point to the OS, 2 meant to point to the Soderbergh movie, 2 to the book company, and 2 to fake planets. (Yes, I just counted them; I'm not proud of this.) None meant to point to the novel or the bands, which might only mean that cultch'ral people are better at creating dab'ed links in the first place than computer people.
On the Stallman hypothetical -- if it was actually mentioned on his page, and someone thought to add it to the dab page, yes, why remove it? (And we could all hope he wouldn't be moved to write a song about it.) The only times I'd yank an entry from a dab page is if it's inaccurate, or there's no relevant link at all to be made and it doesn't meet the usual criteria for keeping a redlink.
Cheers,--NapoliRoma 14:35, 1 February 2007 (UTC)