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Lithopsian I am aware that the AfD closed as a redirect, however there was only 10 hours between my proposing a dab and the discussion being closed. I am aware that the other Walt Czarneckis have never had articles (nor would I argue for one), but the Team Penske VP's position has sources, and his name often comes up in news articles when giving quotes on behalf of Penske, hence why I believe it's a plausible search on Wikipedia and therefore worthy to create a dab out of (also I'm the one who added the hat to Detroit Gems). - "Ghost of Dan Gurney"(work / talk)03:09, 20 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
That's why we have WP:HATNOTES. Being a plausible search term doesn't mean we have to have a dab page. When a dab page has only two entries (entries with no bluelink generally shouldn't be on any dab page), then it is usually most helpful to readers to redirect them to the most likely topic, with a hatnote so they can quickly click through in the minority of cases where the redirect is not where they wanted to go. Creating a dab page doesn't get anyone to where they want to go any quicker, gets some people to a place they didn't need to be instead of directly to where they wanted to be, and all in all only satisfies Wikipedia editors' desire to create lists for everything. Only when the hatnotes become too cumbersome or there really isn't a primary topic do we need a dab page (see APCC and NASA (disambiguation) for examples).
Going off in a totally different direction, disambiguation pages that list only items of the same type (eg. people) should usually become set index articles. A set index can be used to give additional information about the ambiguous term and the listed entries, whereas a disambiguation page is purely to get people to the article they wanted as painlessly as possible. In some cases, there may be a set index and a disambiguation page for the same term (eg. Cannon (surname) and Cannon (disambiguation) with the primary topic at Cannon). This case probably doesn't qualify because none of the people are really notable, but something else to consider. Lithopsian (talk) 17:22, 20 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
