Talk:Syzygy

That last update at 10:09, 11 January 2007 was me. I must have lost my cookie just before completing the edits. Frosty 15:11, 11 January 2007 (UTC)


 * This isn't a particularly good disambiguation page, because it doesn't tell me why someone looking for Syzygy should be sent off to Pathia. (I say this as someone who is familiar with both characters; it's not that I need to be told, it's that readers who hit this page need to be told.) --Lynn Onyx 16:28, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * If someone knows the nickname of Pathia, then they'll know why they're being redirected. Otherwise, I'd assume the searcher is looking for the other reference. I imagine that if someone were searching for Syzygy, they'd know what they were looking for to begin with. Spaz Kitty 16:43, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't know if that's encyclopedic to assume people already understand what they're looking for, though. I think it should say something like:


 * * Pathia (also known as Syzygy), the Virginia furry and host of Dragon Metal on Less Than Three Music.


 * Frostyw signed this with trying my hand at a disambiguation page so I thought I'd give feedback instead of just making the change myself. --Lynn Onyx 16:47, 11 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Were this a more common word, I might agree with you. However, Syzygy is a rather obscure name, not necessarily as proliferant as something like Nicodemus. Spaz Kitty 16:50, 11 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Well, there are 727,000 google hits for the word syzygy, y'know. More than half of the 1,370,000 hits for Nicodemus. But my point really is "disambiguation pages should be clear as to why you're going to a specific page, by including a clear reference to the text being disambiguated." --Lynn Onyx 22:45, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * That's skewed data. Nicodemus could refer to either the biblical Nicodemus, St. Nicodemus of Palermo, Nicodemus, Kansas, physicist Fred Nicodemus, or Nicodemus, The Secret of NIMH. Syzygy only refers to an astronomical term and an obscure one at that. The point is there are at least two seperate people named Syzygy because artist Laura Blacksin, creator of Chakat Syzygy, also moonlights under her character's name, just as Pathia does. If I wanted to look for the chakat, I'd type Syzygy into the search name and come up with something totally different. Hence, disambiguation.--Kendricks Redtail 22:59, 11 January 2007 (UTC)