Talk:DE

yea and Destiny's Edge and god who knows what more? (Vote:Revert Redirect?)--The Holy Dragons 17:32, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

I'll suggest a disamg page in such situation. Glastium | talk 17:46, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

I didn't notice, sorry. Perfect solution, thanks. --Till034 17:51, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

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I don't think we should start creating disambiguation pages for all possible shorts form. If you are looking for Destiny's Edge or Dynamic event, type it...

If we start creating pages like this, we will have a lot of disambiguation pages. This is a wiki, not a fast search page.

Disambiguation is for things with the same name, not for short forms of many pages.

Examples:

• [[Armor (disambiguation)]]
• [[Defense (disambiguation)]]

This page is not linked in the whole wiki. --Desaroll 15:08, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Your final link there is irrelevant because disambiguation pages like this shouldn't be linked to from within the wiki - internal links should point directly to the intended target. —Dr Ishmael 15:14, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

I know it, I only put that cause I have not any way to reflect if this page is used or not. That's the most similar thing i could find. And it's a factor in the deleting or not of a page. I know, i know... A disambiguation page should not be linked, but if it's linked the links should be fixed before deleting.--Desaroll 15:27, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Edit: Why check internal links? When they deleted the [["Deep sea dragon"]] page, they created a lot of broken links. --Desaroll 15:32, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

There is not a single main space link found on that broken links example in your edit, actually. We really don't/shouldn't care about fixing talk and user pages. - Infinite - talk 15:51, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

I am opposed of deleting this. Disambiguation and redirect pages are so users can search for something and find what they're looking for, even if it wasn't an exact match. Come release, people will start referring to stuff by abbreviations. Abbreviations being documented makes sense and helps visitors, with no downsides what so ever. Also: "This page has been accessed 444 times." — Rhoot 16:02, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Keep it, please.

Questions like this are ultimately style issue, i.e. they are more a matter of preference than being matters that can be decided strictly on the merits. In such cases, I think we should look at what's helpful for the typical player: how likely is it that they can find the article they want by typing in the search box with autocomplete? How many times must they follow links? How likely is it that they end up on the wrong page? How much do they have to read the article to find the content they were looking for? For this reason, I preach against unnecessary redirects (like -s plurals) because they make it harder to find other terms (autocomplete only shows a limited number of articles). I'm also generally against [term (disambiguation)] articles for the same reason, unless there are at least four similar articles (if two, I prefer {{otheruses}}; three is borderline).

"DE" is already a commonly-used abbreviation for both Divinity's Reach and Dynamic Event. That makes it worthy of a glossary term article, which, under the circumstances, is the same as a disambig page.

In contrast, I think [[Armor (disambiguation)]] is extraneous: since there are only two terms, at least half the time, people would end up on the correct page typing "armor" as opposed to 33% of the time if we have the two terms plus the disambig. – Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 16:34, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

DE is not set-in-stone to abbreviate one in mainstream use; both could be intended. Therefore I'd also say keep it around. It's not about being linked within the wiki, but rather searches by the users. - Infinite - talk 17:27, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Ok. I don't share but this is a wiki, and all who posted (Many of them are active members (Or admins)) but me think that this shall be kept. I'll retire the deleting template. If someone has another reason to delete, restart the discussion.

I like when things end in a good way when discussing. --Desaroll 22:33, 17 June 2012 (UTC)