Problem: On nl-wiki, a link to a disambiguation page is in general seen as an unwanted link, that should be resolved to one of the option on that disamb-page.
Who would benefit: The reader (gets better links) and the maintainer of these wrong links.
Proposed solution: Give a warning before saving the page, that disamb-links are available. If a user persists and saves anyways, we at least tried.
There are rare cases where links to disambiguation pages are actually correct. We should probably only warn them when the new content being added contains a disambiguation link (rather than when any of the saved content contains a disambiguation link). Kaldari (talk) 04:28, 31 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm, useful? Frustrating. When I press save, I want to save. Basta. When you close your eyes, you never see any problem ;-) But it still needs to be solved. On the Dutch wikipedia only, we get about 100 new disambiguation links added every day, and it's a sjid-load of work to get them link to the right page(s). And often it's the same user over and over again making that mistake. Maybe one change to my idea: implement this initially for users that are logged in with their account/password, and skip this question for ip-users. Users with an account are assumed to be more wiki-wise then ip-people. Edoderoo (talk) 07:58, 5 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Every mandatory requirement/warning/error message becomes one more step that prevents people from making a change. That's probably bad in a lot or even most cases. This one won't be getting my support. --Izno (talk) 01:37, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
What if we had a function to have any link that goes to a page with a disambig tag of any sort be colored bright green, or something like that. For links that are intended to go to disambig pages, maybe a special piped command or something to not make them stand out as needing correction. KConWiki (talk) 03:06, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
After I enabled orange disambig links, I got much better at not including them in articles. Support making orange disambig links the default. HLHJ (talk) 07:13, 14 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Yes - most good-faith editors would welcome an alert telling them how to improve their page by linking to the article they want instead of to a dab page! I use the "colour them orange" gadget and find it really helpful. PamD (talk) 18:31, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Izno. However, I agree that this is a problem, so if the warning was opt-in, I would support it. Another good idea mentioned above is to add a preference to give dab page links a different colour. — Bilorv (talk) 03:28, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I agree with Bilorv that this is something that could be added to preferences as an opt-in (for example, I have my preferences set to alert me that I am trying to save without providing an edit summary) but can deter new editors. AHeneen (talk) 06:28, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 04:47, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
Oppose per Izno. However, I agree that this is a problem, so if the warning was opt-in, I would support it. Another good idea mentioned above is to add a preference to give dab page links a different colour. — Bilorv (talk) 03:28, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
