Talk:Shakespeare (disambiguation)

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Untitled user comment 1[edit]

I'm not sure this disambiguation page is needed. After all, as the disam guidelines state, "Do not disambiguate, or add a link to a disambiguation page, if there is no risk of confusion." [1] In this case, the language and asteroid are named for Shakespeare and I doubt anyone would confuse them with the author. --Alabamaboy 13:57, 24 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Disabled links[edit]

In the last section, there are two red links. The pages leading to them do not exist. I have searched all Shakespeare topics and have not found the pages or anything like them. It's possible that I may have missed those pages, or that they were deleted since the page was last updated. I will remove the links in two days if I do not get a reply to this. Best regards.--Song 17:36, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Shakespeare Company entry refers to two brands: Shakespeare Fishing Tackle (http://www.shakespeare-fishing.com) and Shakespeare Electronic Products Group (http://www.shakespeare-marine.com/). Both are now owned by K2 Inc., a California company. Both were originally divisions of The Shakespeare Company, which was founded in 1897 as The William Shakespeare, Jr. Company and was taken over in 1979 by Anthony Industries of Los Angeles, CA. Anthony Industries became K2 Inc. in 1996. There were also divisions in Canada and Great Britain; I don't know what happened to them. I found most of this info at http://www.shakespeare-fishing.com/history/index.shtml. I don't know how these things are normally handled in Wikipedia, but there you go. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.118.231.5 (talk) 22:04, 15 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

i would very much like to caress shaespear's body up and down veryveryvery fast —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tomlet12481632 (talk • contribs) 13:42, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Go ahead. But bring a shovel; he's buried in the Stratford Holy Trinity Church. Also be willing to live with the curse placed on anyone who moves his bones. --Ye Olde Luke (talk) 00:24, 16 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

john was his father  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.172.177.42 (talk) 09:08, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Untitled user comment 2[edit]

I beleve that [[2]] should also be linked into the disambiguations 142.23.41.140 (talk) 21:29, 9 January 2009 (UTC) (Terris)[reply]

Done. --Xover (talk) 11:47, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

See also overpopulation?[edit]

While WP:PTM doesn't forbid the addition of partial title matches, it is clear that it is not encouraged. "The more the better" is definitely not stated. Clarityfiend (talk) 06:33, 7 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

All of the disputed links are closely related to Shakespeare (and mostly to William Shakespeare). If you look at WP:PTM all the examples listed there are ones that have very little connection to the the subject matter. The situation with Shakespeare is that there are a large number of closely related disambig pages, instead of the links being included in this page. It makes perfect sense to me to include this list instead of the links included on them, which would be allowed under policy.

Take for example Shakespeare and Company. It includes Shakespeare and Company (bookstore) and Shakespeare & Company (Massachusetts). Both of these links would be allowed under policy on this page. But it makes sense to just link to the disambig page instead. Removing this from the page is illogical. "Overpopulation" only makes sense if the linkage is tenuous. Jules (Mrjulesd) 09:55, 7 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]