Talk:Yapeyú

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From User_talk:Tobias Conradi

You seam to be taking disambiguation to a wide extreme. To change Yapeyú into a disambiguation page only because there is a river named Guaviraví River, that was once named Yapeyu, and that doesn't even have a page in Wikipedia seams to be not only useless but anoying. Keep it simple. Mariano (t/c) 08:28, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

I will reply when unblocked. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 23:20, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for saying that I take it to a wide extreme. I understand this as being consequent. IMO to ensure quality in Argentine geography, all inhabitad places should get "X, Province" if there is another object named X now or in the past. If one looks at Category:Cities in Corrientes Province or other categories of Crities in Argentina, dab is widely used. And we can be really happy to have fixed this all in the beginning. I work a lot in dab and in other countries they editors are now not that lucky, having lots of wrong links. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 13:32, 19 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I tend to agree with you in the reasoning but not to the extreme. The reason you see so many articles in that format is because I've been creating them by the dozens, and disambiguating whenever another city/town had the same name (in the world). "X, Province" tends to be unambiguous, but it's unneeded if there's only one "X" in the world (other than e.g. a river, which everyone will look for at "X River"). I don't think anyone needs a disambiguation between a city, a department and a river. Redirects, those are a different thing altogether; you can keep the "X, Province" format if you redirect from the "X" article (if "X" is unambiguous). I'm not criticizing your work, only the fact that you've been doing it all over without asking anyone if they thought it was OK. We have a WikiProject in order to coordinate those kinds of changes. —Pablo D. Flores (Talk) 13:46, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

I have to admit that this is maybe the most extreme case I ever saw :-). Spanish language countries maybe have the word river in the name very often, because they use "Rio X". In Europe lots of rivers don't have the word River in the name and lot of people would probably not look up Nile at Nile River. Lots of rivers are linked to simply as "X". So I think to state at X that there is a X River is good. And so dab pages between X River, X Department, X City are fine too. Thanks to the clear policy of the WP Rivers I allways dab the rivers that I see when reading articles. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 14:05, 19 September 2006 (UTC)