Talk:Macmillan

Redirect or disambiguation

I created the this disambiguation. Where's the problem on it?

Macmillan may refer to:

• MacMillan, a bowl-shaped lunar impact crater on the eastern fringes of the Mare Imbrium
• Macmillan (surname), a Scottish surname
• Clan MacMillan, a Highland Scottish clan
• Macmillan Academy, an academy in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England
• MacMillan Bloedel, a Canadian forestry company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia
• Macmillan of Canada, a Canadian publishing house.
• Macmillan Cancer Support, one of the largest British charities[2] and provides specialist health care
• MacMillan Provincial Park, a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada
• Macmillan Publishers, a British publishing company
• Macmillan Inc., a now mostly defunct American publishing company
• Macmillan River, a river in the Yukon Territory of northwestern Canada
• Macmillan 4x4 UK Challenge, an annual navigational endurance challenge event
• Macmillan Inc v Bishopsgate Investment Trust plc (No 3), a judicial decision relating to English trusts law and conflict of laws case from the Court of Appeal
• Palgrave Macmillan, a British academic and trade publishing company headquartered in the London Borough of Camden

SenoritaGomez (talk) 09:17, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

The first problem is procedural. When someone disagrees with an edit that you make, you discuss first (WP:BRD). Starting a discussion and then reinstating the contentious edit is called an edit war and is a very good way to get blocked from editing. Reinstating an edit that has been reverted by multiple other editors is just madness. Before you go any further, see the three-revert rule which you are perilously close to breaking.

The reason why two editors have disagreed with your idea is that different potentially-ambiguous spellings are generally placed on a single disambiguation (dab) page. Dab pages are not classification tools, they are not there to list out everything in the right place and the right hierarchy. They serve one purpose only, and that is to help readers get to where they want to be based on looking for an ambiguous term. To do this, it is help if "MacMillan", "Mcmillan", etc. are all included in one place because it is very common for readers to enter an incorrect capitalisation or spelling. So we have McMillan (somewhat arbitrary spelling and capitalisation, but probably the most common variant) as the one dab page for all the similar terms. WP:DAB is a good place to read about what disambiguation pages are for in Wikipedia, and then how they are named, structured, linked, etc. Remember, they are not for you, not for any of us editors, they are for readers of Wikipedia. Lithopsian (talk) 11:21, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

Lithopsian, very cogent and thorough explanation. Thank you. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 11:56, 25 September 2020 (UTC)