User:Andrewa/trivial disambiguation
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One issue commonly arising at WP:RM is this:
What constitutes adequate natural disambiguation?
This page explores the precedents, policies and guidelines that represent the historical consensus on that particular point.
Examples
[edit]https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Guang_Ming_Daily_(Malaysia)&diff=prev&oldid=649670785 contrast of Guang Ming Daily to GuangMing Daily was opposed on the grounds These are just slightly different ways of writing the same title.
Policies and guidelines
[edit]Current
[edit]- WP:DIFFCAPS and several other shortcuts to Wikipedia:Article_titles#Using minor details to naturally disambiguate articles, a policy of course
Previous
[edit]Opinions
[edit]As we don't normally sign posts to project namespace pages and this page may one day end up there (or not), opinions here should not be signed. Links to your user page and user talk page are in the page history anyway, as required for copyleft attribution. However diffs and/or permalinks to talk pages where you and/or others have expressed an opinion are good things.