Talk:FT

disambiguation confusion

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ft lists several meanings, and includes link to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FT_(disambiguation), which lists several more meanings and then has bogus link back to itself. It looks like a slightly botched edit to re-organize this info. 198.144.192.45 (talk) 07:25, 25 February 2011 (UTC) Twitter.Com/CalRobert (Robert Maas)[reply]

By "bogus link" do you mean the link under See also? Ft (eg foot) is used differently to FT (eg Financial Times) so they need to be listed separately. If the lists are on two different pages (could be done differently) they need to link to each other in case the user has ended on the wrong page. SpinningSpark

another meaning

FT can also mean Flaming Thunder, a programming language. See main development site: www.flamingthunder.com and sample CGI code www.rawbw.com/~rem/HelloPlus/hellos.html#ft0 www.rawbw.com/~rem/HelloPlus/hellos.html#ft1 www.rawbw.com/~rem/HelloPlus/hellos.html#ft2 www.flamingthunder.com/h3-ft.html 198.144.192.45 (talk) 07:31, 25 February 2011 (UTC) Twitter.Com/CalRobert (Robert Maas)[reply]

Disambiguation pages are not definition pages. They disambiguate between Wikipedia articles, therefore a term must first have an article here before it can be listed. SpinningSpark 12:12, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the explanation. So maybe there should be a link from each disambiguation page not just to the per-meaning articles that already exist on WikiPedia, but also to a single definition page that lists *all* meanings of that term regardless of which definitions have their own WikiPedia pages already and which don't yet. This would be useful because somebody seeing an abbreviation or other term within some important online document such as required skills within a job ad would need to learn the meaning of that abbreviation/term regardless of whether Wikipedia has a whole article for that term or not.

BTW I don't know how to search WikiPedia to learn whether there is a FT-definition page or not, and I bet a majority of casual readers of WikiPedia likewise don't know how to find such a definition page, so having a link from the disambiguation page (which is relatively easy to discover) to the corresponding definition page (which is more difficult for casual users to find), would be useful to a lot of people, IMO. 198.144.192.45 (talk) 18:12, 28 March 2011 (UTC) Twitter.Com/CalRobert (Robert Maas)[reply]

I believe the most you can do is add another FT to the list, linking to the Flaming Thunder page, which doesn't exist. I think your only chance is to build a new page for Flaming Thunder, if you're willing to contribute enough time for it. There might be hundreds of topics that can be identified as FT, which isn't the duty of Wikipedia to list them all. AdvertAdam (talk) 18:41, 28 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]