Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Help desk/Archive 3 (section)

== Regarding Disambuguity Pages ==

*1.  I recently created a stubby article for [[sterility]], because I used the word in another article, and when I linked it, it went to [[infertility]] which only deals with human reproduction, and I was writing about animals.  Was this the right thing to do?  I did reference the infertility article with a brief definition and a link.

*2.  I then realized that ?sterility? has some other meanings as well, and I mentioned them, but now I?m a little uncertain, as Wikipedia is not a dictionary, after all.  Having put more than one sense of the word ?sterility?, should this now be listed as a Disambiguity page?  I wasn?t sure.

*3.  Should I continue to ask these types of questions here, or just continue along on my merry way and trust that some Administrator will fix the mistakes I make?  [[User:Quill|Quill]] 00:56, 19 Jun 2004 (UTC)

:Welcome Quill, here are some unauthoritative thoughts: 1/2) if you believe your article is different enough from the Infertility article, do not redirect. Instead, just add a "See Also" section below, and explain the difference in content if you feel obliged to. 3) I can't predict which pages will move faster, but I am seeing activity at the Help Desk after a couple of days - the Village Pump was faster, but then again, it may have been slow yesterday at the same time too. [[User:Simonides|Simonides]] 05:14, 19 Jun 2004 (UTC)

::*No, this question wasn't about redirecting, it's specifically about the use of the Disambiguity label or tag or whatever its called.  My new page has definitions of sterility, and directs the user to "See Infertility" if what they wanted was information regarding human sterility.  Doesn't Redirection mean that one bypasses another page altogether?   [[User:Quill|Quill]] 08:32, 19 Jun 2004 (UTC)