User talk:Cnilep/Archive/27 April 2014

Disambiguation pages are not articles.
I was baffled by your comment about my adding a link to The Golddiggers article that pointed to the disambiguation page The Gold Diggers -- UNTIL I looked at the Edit history of the article and saw brackets around the words "The Gold Diggers". That’s when I realized the cause of my initial confusion: It stemmed from the fact that while I wrote the paragraph containing the text in question, I did not insert those brackets to create a link for the phrase "The Gold Diggers"; that was apparently someone else's handiwork.

In any event, my whole reason for NOT attaching a link to the wording of "The Gold Diggers" is that the term -- in the context of the Busby Berekely-Warner Bros. films, which are the relevant point of reference here -- belongs not simply to one film, whether it be "The Gold Diggers of 1933" or any other year, but to a series of films that featured the singer-dancers known as "The Gold Diggers". That list would include "42nd Street" (the first of the Berkely-Warner Bros. movie musicals), "The Gold Diggers of 1933," "Footlight Parade," "Dames," and "The Gold Diggers of 1935". It’s not one, but ALL of those films — indeed the whole gestalt of the Berkely-Warner Bros. style — that gave rise to the television version of the troupe, which came to be called “The Golddiggers”.

It would thus be historically inaccurate to credit any single motion picture with inspiring the latter-day incarnation of “The Goldidggers,” which is why I have made another edit to The Golddiggers article to remove both the reference to the film “The Gold Diggers of 1933,” as well as the brackets around the words “The Gold Diggers,” thereby solving the problem of having a link associated with those words that goes to a disambiguation page. Instead, I have inserted a link to the Wikipedia article about Busby Berkeley, which I believe provides a better contextual overview of the background of the "Gold Diggers" films.

(I have provided this same reply on my own Talk page, but added it here, too, because I'm not familiar enough with the workings of Wikipedia to know whether you'd see it on my page. If it should always appear in only one place and not two, then I apologize for the redundancy.)

Interbang (talk) 10:12, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
 * That is the nature of Wikipedia: various contributors build on one another's work. Thank you for you contributions. Cnilep (talk) 10:28, 27 April 2014 (UTC)