Difference between revisions of "Talk:Executable file"
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A bit of restraint is needed with MediaWiki's disambiguation feature because each page requires manual maintenance. Not every taxonomy is a disambiguation; the prose must also largely fail in explaining its title to the lay reader, because the specific cases are too different, e.g. [[Eternity]], [[Khorus]], [[Saturn]]. [[User talk:Ryan W|Ryan W]] ''([[User:Ryan W|living fossil]])'' 23:18, 25 January 2018 (CST) | A bit of restraint is needed with MediaWiki's disambiguation feature because each page requires manual maintenance. Not every taxonomy is a disambiguation; the prose must also largely fail in explaining its title to the lay reader, because the specific cases are too different, e.g. [[Eternity]], [[Khorus]], [[Saturn]]. [[User talk:Ryan W|Ryan W]] ''([[User:Ryan W|living fossil]])'' 23:18, 25 January 2018 (CST) | ||
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| + | : The idea was that, this being the Doom Wiki, most people searching for "executable" or "executable file" would probably be thinking of DOOM.EXE, but the fact is that we have many EXE file articles, many of which may be relevant to the person who initiated the search with only a specific one immediately in mind. Before I created this article, there was in fact ''nothing'' tying together the EXE articles, and several of them were orphaned articles as a result with no incoming links to them. --[[User:Quasar|Quasar]] ([[User talk:Quasar|talk]]) 23:27, 25 January 2018 (CST) | ||
Revision as of 00:27, 26 January 2018
removal of disambig category
It appears we don't actually use this as a disambig. Inbound links always refer to general characteristics of an .exe, or a group of related .exes with a paragraph here, e.g. applications reading from data files, compiling an object file from source. If each individual tech article became so comprehensive that a certain link could reference, say, memory allocation in Hellmaker, then we could start re-targeting those, but we have hardly reached that level of detail currently.
A bit of restraint is needed with MediaWiki's disambiguation feature because each page requires manual maintenance. Not every taxonomy is a disambiguation; the prose must also largely fail in explaining its title to the lay reader, because the specific cases are too different, e.g. Eternity, Khorus, Saturn. Ryan W (living fossil) 23:18, 25 January 2018 (CST)
- The idea was that, this being the Doom Wiki, most people searching for "executable" or "executable file" would probably be thinking of DOOM.EXE, but the fact is that we have many EXE file articles, many of which may be relevant to the person who initiated the search with only a specific one immediately in mind. Before I created this article, there was in fact nothing tying together the EXE articles, and several of them were orphaned articles as a result with no incoming links to them. --Quasar (talk) 23:27, 25 January 2018 (CST)
