UC Bill Gianoed, Down goes a developer? Options

[Hipocrite]

UC_Bill (T-C-L-K-R-D) has a short temper. He's also, I believe, a developer.

He was just blocked indef, email blocked cannot edit own talk page for venting on his talk page after getting in a fight with Bart Simpson fans.

A must read.

[Apathetic]

He wanted to make an entirely unnecessary dab page when a hat would have been fine, and when people disagreed with him, resorted to swearing and verbally abusing people.

Nothing to see here?

This post has been edited by Apathetic: Thu 26th March 2009, 7:09pm

[Milton Roe]

He wanted to make an entirely unnecessary dab page when a hat would have been fine, and when people disagreed with him, resorted to swearing and verbally abusing people.

Nothing to see here?

Yes, if you have two people named Nancy Cartwright, and the one is far more culturally notable (see "famous") than the other, a dab page doesn't make much sense as a thing to redirect to. You direct it to the more famous one with a "for other uses" tag on that. Whereas, if we get a third one, it may be a problem, but I've seen "for other uses" with two or even three directs, if they are minor ones. And of course you can direct the "for other uses" to the dab page. Which I think is actually the official policy if there's ONE clearly major use of a term, and many minor ones.

But the whole thing is very much the same computer-programmer mindset of people who really insist on the same logical tree for everything, even if that makes some feature you use everyday, 4 levels down in the logical drop-down menu. If we did everything the same on WP, everything of the same name that had more than one entry would direct to a dab, even if only had TWO entries. In practice, we're (usually) smarter than to do that.