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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Mav (talk | contribs) at 18:56, 24 July 2002 (Homer Simpson is nearly as bad as Homer Simpson.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

I just tested the waters on moving the dreadfuly named The Simpsons/Marge to *shock* Marge Simpson. If all the characters were moved in this way then linking to these articles will be as easy as [[this]]. I've already done this with the Star Wars and Star Trek articles and the result has been increased contributions to those article (who wants to write [[Star Wars/Han Solo|Han Solo]] each and every time you want to link to an article about, *gasp*, Han Solo -- there simply ain't anybody else using that name that is near as well known as the Star Wars character). Recently this has also been done for the Middle-earth articles and I think it will soon be time to do the same to The Simpsons articles. I say we kill the / pages! --mav 17:53 Jul 24, 2002 (PDT)

I was going to suggest that the characters could all be organized under The_Simpsons/..., and redirect pages could be used to point to the clumsier headings, but I see the problem with this idea. If Homer_Simpson redirected to The_Simpsons/Homer, the problem is that other articles can't use [[Homer_Simpson]], because the software doesn't do multiple indirection (to avoid loops?) I know many of you are already aware of this, I'm just explictly pointing it out to others who aren't. Marknau

I have already moved and changed all the links for The Simpsons/Homer to Homer (The Simpsons) is this a problem? I did a similar move fo the Character page... -- *<:@)

Actually there is a larger problem with this: Users, especially new ones, will not know that the more sensible redirects extist and will only see the / page title or the parentetical ones and they will tend to use pipes to link to these articles when they could simply use a free link (example: [[Homer Simpson]] instead of [[The Simpsons/Homer|Homer Simpson]] or [[Homer (The Simpsons)|Homer Simpson]]). --mav

How many other Homer Simpsons are there? --KQ

There's a Wallis Simpson and potentially one of her ex's Ernest Simpson... - I don't know it just seems that some conflict might be there or appear in the future with one of the Characters and then one of them would be the exception to the rest... -- *<:@)
Sorry not clear, here's an example: Say the Simpsons introduces a character called Wallis Simpson, then the Simpsons (prolly minor) character would be "Wallis Simpson (The Simpsons)" whereas all the other would be Homer Simpson, etc. -- *<:@)

Yes, but that would be one inconvenience rather than several dozen. --KQ

Yes, please don't use parentheticals until an actual ambiguity presents itself -- this is what they are for. [[Homer (The Simpsons)|Homer Simpson]] is little improvement over [[The Simpsons/Homer|Homer Simpson]]. --mav

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