Forum:"Disambiguation"

Many of our character pages start with text like this:

''This article is about a member of House Heterodyne. For others in the lineage or other uses, see Heterodyne (disambiguation).''

I take it this template was copied from Wikipedia, but it was copied wrongly, for two reasons. The syntactic reason is that in Wikipedia the "disambiguation" is part of the name of the linked page. The related semantic reason is that a disambiguation page is needed only if what the user typed is ambiguous:

''This article is about the Beatles musician. For other people named John Lennon, see John Lennon (disambiguation).''

''"Lennon" redirects here. For other uses with the name Lennon, see Lennon (disambiguation).''

If the name "Heterodyne" led to a redirect page to "Agatha Heterodyne" then it would be appropriate to link to a page named "Heterodyne (disambiguation)." But it doesn't; it doesn't even link directly to the "Heterodyne" page. Instead it leads to a search-result page with 600 links.

If there were several characters named Agatha Heterodyne, then it would be appropriate to link to a page named "Agatha Heterodyne (disambiguation)." But of course that doesn't arise. (If "Aaronev Sturmvoraus" redirected to "Aaronev Wilhelm Sturmvoraus," as I think it should, then it would be appropriate to start his page with a "This article is about Aaronev Wilhelm Sturmvoraus.  For his son Aaronev Tarvek Sturmvoraus, see  Tarvek Sturmvoraus .")

What I propose is that we replace all these house templates with a simple

This article is about a member of House Heterodyne.

and put the house members at the top of the house articles.