Talk:Musharraf

Single-article person category

@Pi zero: Not sure if we should have this, but it's existed for almost 10 years, so I protected per usual procedure. --SVTCobra 00:00, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

@SVTCobra:

• As long as it's here, I agree it should get the usual treatment. That's taking no position on whether or not we should keep it.
• There are no links currently using it at all.
• It seems we might want a page here that pulls in {{w}} links with this target and says you probably meant so-and-so, but if that's what you meant you should target them specifically. Technically it wouldn't be a disambiguation page because we don't have any other possible targets to suggest (and neither does Wikipedia), but the machinery for disambiguation pages ought to do the job well enough.

--Pi zero (talk) 00:47, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

Similarly, we have Sarkozy which for some reason seemed like a less common name to me. Cheers, --SVTCobra 00:57, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

@SVTCobra: See what you think of the wording. --Pi zero (talk) 01:11, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

Is this like a usage note for writers? I supposes so. I don't know how readers would land here. And frankly, I don't know what the second sentence means. My worry is more what happens when a brand new reader types "musharraf" or "sarkozy" in the search bar. Do we want the auto-search to suggest the correct pages or let them travel to these disambig/redirect pages (whatever they end up being)? --SVTCobra 01:22, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

On an open wiki all readers should be welcomed as potential contributors, so instructions on what-to-do-if-you-see-this should be be written with that in mind. (Even though, ideally, if anyone were to create a wikilink with target "Musharraf", somebody would notice before publication and our general readership would never get to see it.) I doubt if I'm up to composing this improvement just atm (toward the end of my day), but yes we want to do that. --Pi zero (talk) 01:35, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

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Reading the same words at "Sarkozy" I feel you are trying to tell our writers "DON'T USE THIS LINK" but as an writer here, as long as I don't get a red link, I think I did OK. i would rarely click the link as a writer to see the actual target (with local links that is). --SVTCobra 01:38, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

Well, fuckmesideways. Both names are redirects on Wikipedia. I should have probably just said nothing. I hate when that happens. Sorry, --SVTCobra 01:43, 10 August 2019 (UTC)