Talk:Dos-à-dos

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WP is not a dictionary, and Dab pages don't provide dictdefs. (They disambiguate.) The lead line

, from the French, literally "back-to-back", is applied to:

serves no dab'g purpose. Nor does the

bound in pairs back-to-back (such that the book has two front covers, each of which is upside down with respect to the other)

portion of another entry: all you need to know is that it's applied to a book, not a vehicle, dance, or what have you. Similarly with

also spelled dos-a-dos, a dance move where partners pass back-to-back and return to a facing position

Nor

, a carriage with the dos-à-dos seat.

But here's a different kind of failure to Dab'ate:

*A seat where two or more sit back-to-back, a furniture, or in a carriage (typically a dogcart), or other conveyance.

There's been an article for four years on the only meaning of "dos-à-dos" that is so much as mentioned in passing in one of those 3 articles. This entry should have been discarded when the Dos-à-dos (carriage) entry was added.
--Jerzy•t 02:48, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The purpose of the WP is to provide information, I created this page because it was needed, but there is no reason that a dab page cannot provide a tinsy bit more that the basic information required. People are not computers, they don't get a dab page and say "Ah! Indirection! I must iterate through the list until I find the meaning I want then visit that article." People enter the term (for example) Dos-à-dos for a variety of reasons. Maybe they don't know what it means - maybe it's the answer to a crossword puzzle, or they came across it in a book. Maybe they have an idea it's a type of conveyance, and just want to know what type. Maybe they want an in-depth analysis, and need to visit the dabbed pages. Rich Farmbrough, 18:28, 26 September 2009 (UTC).[reply]