Talk:Hierapolis (disambiguation)

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Problem With Links - Two Phrygian Hiero/apoleis[edit]

While trying to find the page on ancient Hieropolis in Turkey that has the fabulous ruins and geological features, I got "stuck" on this page. It seems that there are two Hieropoleis considered to be "Phrygian", causing confusion with links, and two spellings of Hiero/apolis doing same!

In particular, the first issue is that the two links that mention Phrygian or Phrygia both link to the same place. I believe the first one, the one associated with Pamukkale and the ruins, is linked incorrectly. I found the correct link only by I typing Hierapolis into the upper right search box (but not when I typed it in on the search page). I did note that the term "Hiera/opolis in Phrygia" seems to be associated with the Pamukkale one, as per the sources in the Hierapolis article. The second Hieropolis links to a small modern village in Turkey called Kochislar. So, the links/redirects from Hierapolis, Hieropolis, Hierapolis of Phrygia and Hieropolis of Phrygia would need to be checked/changed, maybe others?

Obviously, the second issue is the spelling issue. There are inconsistent results for both typing article names in the search box, and redirects depending on which spelling is used, even though the spellings seem to be interchangeable.

If the above makes any sense at all, I wonder if someone could, a. double check my conclusions, b. fix this, and c., tell me how they did it and where, as I am not really sure I understand how to deal with redirects.

One final issue concerns the emphasis of Catholic sees on this page. I feel that because this aspect is not the focus of these articles, these details should be moved to the pages, or at least stated minimally, without separate bullet points, as per the MoS on disambiguation pages. I can handle this if there is some consensus.

Thanks to anyone who can help! Peacedance (talk) 19:21, 12 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]