Talk:Walter Anderson

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Please continue to use this as a general redirect page to the disambiguation. If you create a new article about another Walter Anderson remember that your guy doesn't have priority over any of the others of the same name. You can reduce confusion by naming it Walter Middlename Anderson or Walter Anderson (occupation) and putting the {{otherpeople|Walter Anderson}} template onto it then adding it to the Walter Anderson (disambiguation) page. Thanks.Trilobitealive (talk) 00:48, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I am not sure what you are tying to do here. WP:DABNAME is pretty explicit in the "The title of a disambiguation page is the ambiguous term itself, provided there is no primary topic for that term". Since there is no primary topic, the disambiguation page has to be the name itself WITHOUT the "(disambiguation)" tag at the end. Zzyzx11 (talk) 00:53, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Go to any one of the various Walter Anderson pages and look at the otherpeople template then click on it and it directs to Walter Anderson (disambiguation). Can you make the template not do that? If so I'll concede your point.Trilobitealive (talk) 00:56, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have made the change. In the future, please refer to Template:Otheruses templates for those various templates. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (talk) 01:01, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

WOW! Hey thanks! I got really frustrated because of the redirect issue. Since this is the first time I've run across this problem. I had to do some cross checking but some examples of the same thing occur if one follows the Joker example on Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Deciding to disambiguate then looks at Joker (comics). Same is true for Roger Taylor (Duran Duran drummer), which one can get to in evaluating Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people)#Difficult to disambiguate.: some examples. I'm going to add the template tweak to my list of easy do do things to watch for. Trilobitealive (talk) 05:06, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]