Talk:Money for Nothing

Disambiguation?

I don't think "Money for Nothing" should be a disambiguation page, as three of the articles are related to Dire Straits and the other two are stubs. I think this page should be moved to Money for Nothing (disambiguation) and Money for Nothing should redirect to Money for Nothing (song). Any thoughs? ♀No-Bullet (Talk • Contribs) 20:55, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Strong disagree:

For one thing, P. G. Wodehouse and his Money for Nothing (novel) are at least as much known as the song, and much more to many people – it just depends on the cultural background and interests.
This is not a popularity contest, a more crucial point is maintenance:
- With the disambig page sitting at the main title Money for Nothing, we can always assert that any link in Special:Whatlinkshere/Money for Nothing is in error and should be disambiguated, until the What-links-here is empty. A good dab page is a dab page with an empty or nigh-empty What-links-here, and bots can automatically detect and report dab pages with too much accrued incoming links, for long-term maintenance.
- If the song goes hogging the main title, all is lost. The list of what-links-here will always be full of legitimate links to the song, and any erroneous link will be lost in the sea. Finding erroneous links will be too time-consuming, leaving readers sent in error and having to see and use the hatnote. Not maintainable and unprofessional.

So, IMO:

At the very least, the current setup should be maintained, that is: the song stays at Money for Nothing (song) and the main title is *only* a redirect. Because this way, it's at least possible to clean up and empty the main title's What-links-here (by linking directly to the song or novel articles). But the current setup is deeply flawed, because it encourages unqualified links to the redirect instead of qualified links to the song and thus creates more maintenance work; because it prevents automatic detection of accrued links (a bot can lookup the What-links-here of all dab pages, but won't know to look at the What-links-here of the redirect at the main title, so it'll be more work to do by hand); and because this setup will just encourage a fanboy to eventually pagemove the song article over the main title, which I'm 100% against for the reasons above.
Which is why I'd prefer the dab page moved back to the main title, to avoid all those troubles and restore a fully maintainable dab page.