Talk:Space Communication

Redirect vs Disambiguation vs ???

Replying to a message on my talk page. I was asked to reply here.

Your first attempt at changing the redirect was to a Dictionary Definition. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a dictionary. If you want to write a fuller encyclopedia entry on the topic, great, but a redirect to a relevant topic is generally much better than a simple dictionary definition.

Your second attempt, to create a disambiguation, has different problems. First, external links are not generally supposed to be used as items on disambiguations. Disambigs are for helping navagation between articles on Wikipedia, not between articles on the wider internet. So that would mean that 2 of your three entries should be removed. But then we are back to a single entry. And single entry disambigs are not really useful. Redirection is the better mechanism for that. SO that brings us right back to a redirect to the article that was previously the target.

If you want to replace the redirect, you really need to either write up a new (non dic-def) article, or find more than one on-wiki target to make up a proper disambiguation. - TexasAndroid (talk) 18:25, 30 March 2012 (UTC)