Talk:William Leslie

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WP:MOSDAB explicitly permits the use of redlinks in disambiguation pages. Nowhere does it say that more than one of the entries must have a blue-linked article; it only says that there should be *some* bluelink for each entry on the page. All of the redlinks are linked from other articles, and have a reasonable probability of being written at some time, the criteria suggested by MOSDAB.

Even before such articles are created, disambiguation pages with multiple redlinks serve a useful function by collecting all the *different* uses of that term linked in a particular article. The existence of a central directory of these uses helps authors avoid creating multiple disambiguated titles for an article about the same person or thing. Unless you can cite chapter and verse of policy prohibiting the creation of dab pages with some redlinks, please stop creating extra work and annoying other editors by deleting them. Choess (talk) 22:49, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation pages aren't for lists of suggestions for future articles. The dab guidelines for redlinks do not explicitly permit all uses of redlinks: the redlinked entry still needs a blue link, and that blue link needs to cover the subject of the entry. User-space pages or WP:LIST articles (if encyclopedic) can serve the "collection" use you describe. Disambiguation pages serve to disambiguate existing articles. -- JHunterJ (talk) 00:09, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]