Talk:Ike

This is the discussion/talk page for article: Ike.

Adding section for News
04-Sep-2008: Because Wikipedia has a dual role in providing information on news topics, as well as traditionally established subjects, there is a split as to which meaning, old or new, is most appropriate for quick links to subjects. To support that dual role, I am adding a group "News" to link meanings of "Ike" that are in recent news, beyond the older traditional links of the Ike name. This is in response to the name "Hurricane Ike" which is a storm that came near the U.S. in September 2008. Typically, a name such as "Shakespeare" would be quickly linked to the oldest mainstream meaning of the term (as in "William ~"); however, if a ship named "Shakespeare" were in top news stories, such a link could be placed, in a disambiguation page, under "News" as an alternate quick link. From the one disambiguation page, readers have a choice to read either about the popular, recent name or the older articles about the similar name. -Wikid77 (talk) 07:35, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. In fact it is explicitly not a news outlet. Wikinews is the news outlet.  Plasticup  T / C  14:02, 4 September 2008 (UTC)