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*'''You need 3 similarly-named things to start a disambiguation page, particularly one that is itself un-disambiguated.''' A disambig page that is itself un-disambiguated simply invites people to link to it. For instance, if the page ''''City of the Daleks''' existed, then people would ''most likely'' link to it when they were trying to link to the modern [[City of the Daleks (video game)]], because many people are unaware of the 1960s [[City of the Daleks (comic story)]]. Deleting the page at '''City of Daleks''' is actually ''helpful'', because it forces users to pick one of the two valid links. We want disambiguation pages to help us create more correct links — not be lightning rods for bad ones. Un-disambiguated disambig pages tend to have long [[Special:WhatLinksHere|WhatLinksHere]] lists, so they really shouldn't be created '''before they are truly necessary'''. Thus, disambig pages consisting of just two items are actually considered, on balance, ''unhelpful''. | *'''You need 3 similarly-named things to start a disambiguation page, particularly one that is itself un-disambiguated.''' A disambig page that is itself un-disambiguated simply invites people to link to it. For instance, if the page ''''City of the Daleks''' existed, then people would ''most likely'' link to it when they were trying to link to the modern [[City of the Daleks (video game)]], because many people are unaware of the 1960s [[City of the Daleks (comic story)]]. Deleting the page at '''City of Daleks''' is actually ''helpful'', because it forces users to pick one of the two valid links. We want disambiguation pages to help us create more correct links — not be lightning rods for bad ones. Un-disambiguated disambig pages tend to have long [[Special:WhatLinksHere|WhatLinksHere]] lists, so they really shouldn't be created '''before they are truly necessary'''. Thus, disambig pages consisting of just two items are actually considered, on balance, ''unhelpful''. | ||
*According to [[Forum:Peter Anghelides's future doctor naming|a forum discussion]], if a thing needs disambiguation, but it appears in more than one episode or story, the disambiguation term shall be the ''first'' story or episode in which the character appears. For instance, Nancy of ''[[The Empty Child]]'' / ''[[The Doctor Dances]]'' is disambiguated as [[Nancy (The Empty Child)]]. | |||
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