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VmKid Since: Sep, 2009
#1: Aug 12th 2011 at 9:10:10 AM

Disambiguations don't currently have a banner, to my knowledge. Should they have one? Maybe they'd say something like:

This is a Disambiguation page, meaning that there are multiple articles with this name. If you were linked here from another page on the wiki, please change the link to direct to the correct page.
Or something to that effect.

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#2: Aug 12th 2011 at 9:11:44 AM

We've been putting that in the description text of the page. I suppose a banner might be useful, but in the interim if you see any disambigs that don't say they are a disambig, it would probably be a good idea to fix them.

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#3: Aug 12th 2011 at 9:19:41 AM

I think I'd prefer it be a banner so it's more eye-grabbing.

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#4: Aug 12th 2011 at 10:15:42 AM

Most of them are visually pretty clear. The only ones that aren't are the ones where it's not really a disambig, it's a trope or works or creator page that has a clarification on it. Like the I'm not sure why we need to add a banner, and I know that Fast Eddie really doesn't like the idea of using banners without a really good reason.

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#5: Aug 12th 2011 at 10:45:55 AM

Banners are only eye grabbing when they're rare. If we start bannering everything then people start ignoring them.

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#6: Aug 12th 2011 at 12:59:08 PM

Shima said exactly what I was going to say.

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#7: Aug 12th 2011 at 2:33:59 PM

I still prefer the color coding idea. I'm thinking orange for these and a little street sign for an icon if it's used as a link.

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