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There's a toggleable option on Wikipedia that makes links to disambiguation pages orange, so maybe something like that could work instead.
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Though it would be easier to redlink pages in the disambig page type rather than the Ambiguity Index. What if the index gets too long and has to be split, which seems like it could happen in the near future?
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While I have proposed another means of flagging Ambiguity Index items, this proposal is another good option.
As for issues arising from an eventual split once the page gets long, that would need a toggle on the subpages on the admin side. If it's not feasible, we should prioritize splitting off work-based disambiguations. We could also clean out some egregious entries as well.
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A problem that might occur is that people may remove them without checking if they're disambigs. Maybe it could be some other color than red.
I mean... disambigs are supposed to be removed, lmao
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Well, often times they're supposed to be changed to some other name.
But most people will be conditioned to ignore red links thinking that someone might make a page out of it, or because what's the use of clicking on a link that doesn't take you anywhere. Making disambigs a different color would be the best solution.
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^ Like green, or yellow, or something else? We already have a proposal to make "namespace-only links" (i.e. links to a page where the namespace is correct, but the title doesn't exist) purple.
I think the issue is that there are two kinds of disambiguation links. Work links, which always need to be renamed if possible; and cut trope links, which in a lot of cases have to just be removed. So while red work links will be ignored, the opposite is true of a red trope link.
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Disambiguation pages now appear as green links. I'd say we can call this issue solved.
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Yup. Lock.
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Fairly simple suggestion. Pages in the Ambiguity Index should show up as redlinks even though they technically exist (like with This Troper and some other pages), to discourage linking to them.
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