All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XII

[robkelk]

Why do we have "Category:Pages Needing Disambiguation" and "Category:Multiple Works Need Separate Pages" - especially considering the former is empty except for a link to the latter?

I created both of them several years apart, and in my mind, at least "pages needing disambiguation" is not exclusive to works.  "Multiple Works Need Separate Pages" is a subcategory of "pages needing disambiguation", and the link from the one to the other is more of a shortcut to a similar task with slightly different needs than a statement they are synonymous.

Also, "Pages Needing Disambiguation" is a "needs attention" category that is added to pages when the {{Needs Disambiguation}} template is added to them.  It's implemented on the community portal page like other "trouble" categories (broken links, Examples Needing Verification, Examples Needing Context), and if you delete it you will need to delete or revise the template and the portal page.

I'd like to update the Community Portal to point to Multiple Works Need Separate Pages instead of the current Pages Needing Disambiguation, then delete Category:Pages Needing Disambiguation. Any objections?

Yes.  I see them as different tasks with a lot of overlapping but not identical needs.

Fair enough.

Since they're related, let's at least put the two sections next to each other on the Community Portal page.