Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Links to disambiguating pages

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The result of the debate was keep. – AB CD 00:24, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Links to disambiguating pages[edit]

This collection of pages appears to be redundant with Category:Disambiguation. It seems pointless to have to maintain this index manually when the category does it automatically.

Of course, database queries that rely on these pages will have to be changed. -- Smjg 15:08, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Delete. The linkd to disambiguation pages no longer serve a purpose, as far as I can tell. The manual function of linking to disambig pages has been replaced by the automatic function of categorization. Kevyn 15:42, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Comment: I thought that the page's purpose was to prevent disambiguation pages to show up as orphaned pages. -Hapsiainen 16:07, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)

Strong keep. The first line says "the following pages are disambiguation pages linked here in order to avoid being shown in the list of orphaned articles." That is reason enough to keep. -- RHaworth 16:24, 2005 Apr 5 (UTC)

Not to me. To me, it's a reason that the list of orphaned articles is one of the queries that'll have to be changed. -- Smjg 17:15, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Keep. Category:Disambiguation mentions it explicitly: "Links to disambiguating pages - manually maintained lists which "knowingly" point to disambiguation pages to prevent them becoming "orphans"." I read this as saying there are some special cases of disambig pages that need a different mechanism than the category, and that it is not necessary for every disambig page to be listed on the manual list. FreplySpang (talk) 17:26, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Keep. I agree with points made by FreplySpang and RHaworth. Mgm|^(talk) 20:22, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)
Keep for reasons listed above. If you make a habit of working on orphan pages, this is a significant aid in clarifying the work to be done. -- 8^D ^gab 21:42, 2005 Apr 5 (UTC)

Keep I come there to disambiguate links within pages! Jaberwocky6669 02:59, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)
This sounds like something that should be on the bugzilla log for future improvement. But in the meantime, keep it per above. Radiant _* 08:24, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)

Maybe there's a better idea. Replace with automated list. AIUI the very existence of a manual list is a legacy from before the category came along. And FreplySpang, the only two kinds of disambiguation pages are those with "(disambiguation)" in the title and those without. -- Smjg 09:14, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Weak keep and replace with automated list ASAP. --InShaneee 16:58, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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