Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation/Incomplete disambiguation draft

Purpose
To present a revision pertaining to [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Disambiguation&oldid=1185117635#Should_the_section_on_Incomplete_Disambiguation_be_deprecated_or_revised? this discussion].

The issues

 * 1) Editors are creating an increasing number of pages that would previously have been considered as incomplete disambiguation and in most cases would be merged and redirected back to the base name disambiguation page. This represents a divergence from the current guidance.
 * 2) *The primary concern is for disambiguation pages that have parenthetical qualifiers (see Category:Disambiguation pages with (qualified) titles).
 * 3) *For example, there is an existing disambiguation page for Arteaga -- and there is an incomplete disambiguation page at Arteaga (footballer). In the past, pages such as this would be merged and redirected, but there are many similar pages that persist and are being cited as other stuff to justify the creation of more.
 * 4) A number of related topics are mostly tangential, but may have some role in this:
 * 5) *Double disambiguation
 * 6) *Partially disambiguated page names (WP:PDAB or WP:PARTIALDAB)
 * 7) *Transclusion using transclude list -- where and how to present this as an option
 * 8) A secondary, related issue is the lack of clarity with regards to the terms such as "Double disambiguation", Incomplete disambiguation", and "Partial disambiguation" or "Partially disambiguated page names". These terms entered the Wikipedia lexicon at different times and with varying degrees of prior discussion (for example, double disambiguation had none and was essentially only a merge of a separate page created by a sockpuppet of a banned user). These have since accrued somewhat differing interpretations.
 * 9) A tertiary issue concerns the location of WP:DOUBLEDAB and WP:INCDAB as subsections under Disambiguation where both currently appear to describe something other than links as their main purpose.

Option 1
A proposal by to update text in WP:DOUBLEDAB and WP:INCDAB

Incomplete disambiguation
Below is text from the current version]:

Other considerations

 * 1) Move both WP:DOUBLEDAB and WP:INCDAB subsections from WP:Disambiguation to level four subsections under Combining terms on disambiguation pages
 * 2) Create a new level four subsection under Combining terms on disambiguation pages to present transclusion for disambiguation pages using transclude list
 * 3) No changes to Partially disambiguated page names other than to update back links.

Discussion
I can see where Option 2 is going, and it doesn't seem objectionable to me, but it's quite a lot of verbiage. There must be a way to compress this. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  22:53, 15 November 2023 (UTC)