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(Still disambiguous?: Reply to Joey.)
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::::::Yeah, that makes sense.  We'll have to add that to the list of things to change when bringing something over.  To try to prevent some of the confusion.  And to that user guide we still have to make...  --  [[User:Tom|Tom]] 12:55, 28 Jul 2004 (MST)
::::::Yeah, that makes sense.  We'll have to add that to the list of things to change when bringing something over.  To try to prevent some of the confusion.  And to that user guide we still have to make...  --  [[User:Tom|Tom]] 12:55, 28 Jul 2004 (MST)
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I've pointed out before this page is unnecessary. [[Pom Pom (character)]] should be moved here, and [[pom pom]] should be the e-mail, and they can each have disambiguation notices at the top, like: ''You might be looking for the [[Strong Bad Email]] named [[pom pom]].'' It's good enough for Wikipedia and I think it's still good enough for us. - [[User:furrykef|furrykef]] 12:35, 14 Sep 2004 (MST)

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Still disambiguous?

Hmm. Does the case fix get rid of this problem? Pom Pom is the character, pom pom is the email, right? Or is that way to confusing? Also, links to the page "Pom Pom" aren't directed here anymore. We need to fix this. Somehow. -- Tom 12:03, 28 Jul 2004 (MST)

Case seems to be adequate enough to disambiguify something to the engine, but I don't think it's good enough for readers. Case-sensitivity would/will confuse a lot of people. I think we should stick with what we've got. -- JoeyDay 12:13, 28 Jul 2004 (MST)
Oh right, I think it was the move that I was looking for. That works... But still, ideally, nothing should link here. They should all link to either Pom Pom (character) or pom pom (email). Would it be easier to have the pages be "Pom Pom" and "pom pom"? Wait, that's still confusing. I guess... Which type of confusion do we want then? -- Tom 12:19, 28 Jul 2004 (MST)
I dunno. This case stuff is going to confuse some people, but I don't think it's unnecessarily complicated. -- JoeyDay
Okay, I'm not sure anyone will ever link to "pom pom (character)", so I deleted that. Nothing linked to it, and it just redirected to "Pom Pom (character)" I think we might be out thinking ourselves. What's going to happen when someone copies a page here? What will the links say? "PomPom" or ""StrongBadEmail/pom pom", right? So they are going to have to be changed either way... Should we change them to "Pom Pom (character)" and "pom pom (email)" or simply "Pom Pom" and "pom pom" I guess that's my question. -- Tom 12:34, 28 Jul 2004 (MST)
I really think we should keep "Pom Pom (character)" and "pom pom (email)" because it will help people understand what they're looking at. If the name is exactly the same (even if the case is different) people will get confused. New links should go to one or the other, not to the disambiguation page. Links should only go to the disambiguation page when people aren't paying attention to what they're doing (something I do a lot). -- JoeyDay 12:49, 28 Jul 2004 (MST)
The disambiguation page is also nice when people are looking for "Pom Pom" and they type it into the search box and hit "Go". -- JoeyDay 12:53, 28 Jul 2004 (MST)
Yeah, that makes sense. We'll have to add that to the list of things to change when bringing something over. To try to prevent some of the confusion. And to that user guide we still have to make... -- Tom 12:55, 28 Jul 2004 (MST)

I've pointed out before this page is unnecessary. Pom Pom (character) should be moved here, and pom pom should be the e-mail, and they can each have disambiguation notices at the top, like: You might be looking for the Strong Bad Email named pom pom. It's good enough for Wikipedia and I think it's still good enough for us. - furrykef 12:35, 14 Sep 2004 (MST)

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