Talk:Dec

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I would like to add the abreviation DEC to the database. It stands for the drug diethylcarbamazine. There is already a DEC, which redirects to Digital Equipment Corporation. What do you do when there is one name for two different entries. Can someone help me with this? --Mahongue 09:37 Feb 22, 2003 (UTC)


 * Actually this kind of thing happens a lot at Wikipedia, see Disambiguation. In your case, I suggest you use the full name of the drug as the title of the article and turn DEC into an disambiguation page. --Lorenzarius 10:07 Feb 22, 2003 (UTC)


 * "DEC" is the abreviation for many things. Ideally a disambiguation page would be created at DEC but in this case DEC probably means Digital Equipment Corporation almost all the time when it is linked. So your article should be at drug diethylcarbamazine. --mav


 * Surely you mean it should be at diethylcarbamazine (which is where it is already). --Zundark 10:17 Feb 22, 2003 (UTC)


 * Opps! You are right. --mav

I think this would be an easy disambiguation page to write as DEC is currently just a redirect itself. As Zundark mentioned, I have created a diethylcarbamazine entry already. Does anyone have a problem with me creating a disambiguation page for DEC? --Mahongue 10:28 Feb 22, 2003 (UTC)


 * Just make sure to fix all the misdirected links to DEC and then list it on the disambiguation links page. --mav


 * Maveric, what does it mean to "fix all the misdirected links to DEC"? Does that mean to find the links and have them point directly to Digital Equipment Corporation (instead of to the newly created disambiguation entry)? --Mahongue 11:05 Feb 22, 2003 (UTC)


 * Yes, you need to change every DEC to DEC . You should do this before creating the disambiguation page, so that nothing is broken, even temporarily. --Zundark 11:18 Feb 22, 2003 (UTC)


 * Or is it better to put the disambiguation page at DEC (disambiguation)? There're a lot of article linking to DEC and all of them are referring to the Corporation. --Lorenzarius 10:42 Feb 22, 2003 (UTC)

Ok, its done. And what is great is that if anyone is unhappy, it is very easy to reverse what I did. I (1) changed every DEC link to point to Digital Equipment Corporation (I think someone was helping me, thank you!) and (2) created a very simple disambiguation entry (please check it out and change it if you would like). --66.47.86.47 11:47 Feb 22, 2003 (UTC)

Hunh. Maybe it wasn't so smart making this a disambig page. I just found a ton of pages linked here, all of them thinking it was the Digital Equipment Corp, so if they really were all fixed before (I'm dubious, some of them were pretty dusty) new ones are being created. Noel 05:13, 11 Sep 2003 (UTC)