Talk:A Game of Thrones (disambiguation)

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I believe that in the first line there should be a wiki link to the "A Song of Ice and Fire". The way I read the MOS:DAB guidelines, the first (introductory line) does NOT count as an entry. I quote:

"After the introductory line comes a list of individual entries – lines which direct the readers to Wikipedia articles on the various topics which might be referenced by the term being disambiguated"

and then of course it says:

"Each entry should have exactly one navigable (blue) link to efficiently guide readers to the most relevant article for that use of the ambiguous term"

So in my opinion the rule for one navigable link per entry does not apply for introductory lines and we can add a link to the "A Song of Ice and Fire".

Bilingsley (talk) 20:27, 22 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No, if anyone coming to this page wants to find out about the series they can link via the A Game of Thrones article - see The Fellowship of the Ring (disambiguation) for an example which has worked fine for ages. NtheP (talk) 20:39, 22 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

<edit conflict>You're splitting hairs, and I think you know it. The introductory line is an entry, in this case for the primary use of the ambiguous term. The disambiguation guideline limiting the number of links per entry is intended to offer a user the single best destination for each use of the ambiguous term, and the policy assumes that users are looking for what they say they are looking for, and not something else. There are two likely avenues to this page: Through the article A Game of Thrones, where a link to A Song of Ice and Fire is available in the first sentence, or through a search result, in which case the assumption is, if they were searching for something called A Game of Thrones, that, and not something called A Song of Ice and Fire, is what they want. I see no compelling reason why this particular dab page requires an exception to the guideline.--ShelfSkewed Talk 20:42, 22 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The reason I am not completely satisfied with this is that I had the impression (and other readers might have it too) that A game of thrones is the name of the series. So I arrived at this page actually looking for the series (which turned out to be called A Song of Ice and Fire). Taken that into account it would be nice to have a direct link to the series somewhere in the page. Please forgive me if this is not possible since I am only a beginner in Wikipedia but maybe this could be added under a See Also heading? Of course having a link in the Fellowship of the Ring linking to The Lord of the Rings would also be nice but these books are much more popular and most likely people know what they are looking for in the first place. Bilingsley (talk) 21:08, 22 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm surprised you got here looking for A Game of Thrones as that search takes me directly to the article on the book. To quote from

WP:MOSDAB

Disambiguation pages ("dab pages") are designed to help a reader find Wikipedia articles on different topics that could be referenced by the same search term, as described in the Disambiguation guideline. Disambiguation pages are not articles; they are aids in searching.

This style guideline is intended to make the search more efficient, by giving disambiguation pages a consistent look and by avoiding distracting information. In brief, the pages should contain only disambiguation content, whether or not the page title contains the parenthetical (disambiguation).

It's about consistency, how well known the topic is does nor relevant. NtheP (talk) 21:29, 22 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I think it is reasonable to have a link to

Game of Thrones (franchise) redirects to Game of Thrones with no link to A Song of Ice and Fire in the hatnote there, which should probably change as well. - Paul^T+/_C 16:36, 7 May 2019 (UTC)[reply

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Proposed de-disambiguation per

WP:DABCONCEPT

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I propose to de-disambiguate this page per

WP:DABCONCEPT. Specifically, upon close examination, it does not appear that the subjects listed on this page are in fact a completely unrelated group of things which coincidentally share a title. bd2412 T 03:27, 21 January 2013 (UTC)[reply

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It's missing the entries for the pre-IceandFire meanings. -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 07:42, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Game of Thrones: listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Game of Thrones:. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Steel1943 (talk) 15:24, 22 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]