Talk:Unknown

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wow

Wow. When I searched this up I thought that there would be nothing on it. How amazing! 206.191.28.67 19:36, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

super

Should this link to supernatural? Pendragon39 14:19, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

no, probably not Greg Bard 12:58, 13 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

unknown is missing

Shouldn't there be something on this topic, in itself, not just as a lack of knowledge?? Threelovemonkeys (talk) 05:22, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ordering of sections

An editor insists to move the topics related to the common meanings of the noun "unknown" near to the bottom of the page. MOS:DABCOMMON says "In cases where a small number of main topics are significantly more likely to be the reader's target, several of the most common meanings may be placed at the top, with other meanings below". In this dab page, only the two links appearing in the section "Science and mathematics" can be qualified as common meanings, since they are the only ones that are not proper names, and none of these proper names can be considered as a primary topic. These two meanings appear in the Wiktionary entries. On the other hand, the other entries are all proper nouns, generally of cultural products such as films, books, ... None is sufficiently well known for pretending to be closer to a primary topic that any of the two meanings of the common noun.

So, as usual in case of such an edit conflict, I'll restore the place of these two topics as it was in the last stable version (before April 30). Please, do not change this unless there is a consensus here for changing the stable version. D.Lazard (talk) 14:38, 3 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That wasn't a "stable version". To clarify, "an editor" (D.Lazard) suggests that two of the topics for this title (which has no primary topic) are common enough to list out of alphabetical order at the top of the page. They have some confusion of "common meaning" and "common noun" vs. "proper noun", but that shouldn't impact the discussion. -- JHunterJ (talk) 14:48, 3 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that it's better if the two common nouns ~~(which also happen to be the most common meanings)~~ are moved to the top. It's generally preferable if dab pages have entries for general concepts preceding entries for various specific works. – Uanfala (talk) 15:08, 3 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The readers usage indicates otherwise. In this case, the mathematical meaning is not a common meaning, despite being a general concept (and a "common noun"). -- JHunterJ (talk) 16:13, 3 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the correction: my assumption about popularity was wrong. – Uanfala (talk) 16:16, 3 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Because this is a disambig page, I don’t think the order of the items is that important; many disambig pages seem to list items in a seemingly random order. That said, it’s weird to begin with films, as one expects more typical meanings such as unknown as in unknown unknown, etc. in the beginning. (In fact, some of documentary films make sense only after such ordinary meaning is assumed.) It’s generally not a good idea to surprise readers. —- Taku (talk) 00:22, 4 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm visiting this page in response to a request at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages. I think the order of items and a common look and feel to disambiguation pages is important and where possible should be per WP:LONGDAB. On this page, therefore, I'd like to see (in this order): Arts and entertainment (subsections Film, Gaming; Literature; Music); People; Science; Other uses; See also. I can't see any good reason to depart from that standard. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 09:44, 4 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

WP:LONGDAB is an essay. I definitely disagree with the supersection "arts & entertainment", resulting in level-4 sections for Albums and Songs, needlessly, when the "subsections" Film, etc. make perfectly good sections. -- JHunterJ (talk) 11:17, 4 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Uknown" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Uknown. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 November 6#Uknown until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 00:51, 6 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]