What is the Longest Disambiguation Page on Wikipedia?(toddwschneider.com)

97 pointsby lil_tee12 yıl önce18 comments

What is the Longest Disambiguation Page on Wikipedia?

http://toddwschneider.com/posts/what-is-the-longest-disambiguation-page-on-wikipedia/

19 comments

I'm not sure "List of greatest hits albums" counts as a disambiguation page. If you're going to include lists, there are plenty that have more than 415 links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_clerks_of_the_Supre...

jnks12 yıl önce

True. Here's the actual Greatest Hits disambiguation page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Hits_(disambiguation)

mtdewcmu12 yıl önce

If there was an entry for "List of lists of lists that don't contain themselves," would that page contain itself?

Istof12 yıl önce

I think you answered your own question.

peteretep12 yıl önce

TIL: Iranian founders of towns and villages play it safe with their choice of names.

smnrchrds12 yıl önce

A little bit of explanation: <name>abad could be loosely translated as "a place founded by <name>". Abad is a popular suffix which makes place names from people's names. Ali, Mohammad, Hasan and Hoseyn are the most popular male first names in Iran. To put it in perspective, out of a population of ~76 million people (so ~38 million men), there are ~2.3 million people named Ali. It is not a new phenomenon, people have been playing it safe with their children's names for centuries. As a result, a lot of founders of towns and villages were named Ali or Mohammad. Having so many Aliabads and Mohammadabads is only a natural result.

Raphael12 yıl önce

An English equivalent might be Jamestown. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown

jlarocco12 yıl önce

Not sure I trust some of those entries. These two, for example example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasanabad,_Kerman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasanabad,_Golbaf

Are very close together and one has population 95, the other an unspecified population.

Could it be possible they're the same place, just not well documented?

rabino12 yıl önce

It's not _that_ safe though. Try calling an ambulance during a stress situation.

maxerickson12 yıl önce

So naively translated, 'abad' more or less means 'living place', so village or town. The other parts of the names are related to key Muslim figures and have meanings like 'elevated' or 'good' (I'm not sure if they had those meanings or took on those meanings).

Other countries like to get in on the 'nice place' namings:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_common_U.S._pl...

(Several dozen post offices are located in a Greenville)

frandroid12 yıl önce

And Ali is the founder of Shia Islam, so basically this is kind of like naming your town/parish St. Mary or something.

aaronsnoswell12 yıl önce

First paragraph, this made me laugh - "what if you just want to know the real deal about the English explorer John Smith’s encounter with Pocahontas?" - then you shouldn't be looking on Wikipedia!

seszett12 yıl önce

What's the deal with the link in the second paragraph that leads to the same article, on another website with a different design? And a few more links too.

I don't understand the point.

ajanuary12 yıl önce

It's a rap genius annotation. If you click it with javascript enabled, an annotation will pop up on the right hand side. Looks like on the main site it's designed to degrade gracefully so it just navigates back to the article itself, but on the hosted site the urls aren't re-written correctly.

Gravityloss12 yıl önce

If you've having a child and have a common surname, might be interesting to use these to find an answer the question "who is your child named after?"

netrus12 yıl önce

I feel the need to send an interview request to [email protected]

good-citizen12 yıl önce

best part of that google spreadsheet was the chat. You meet the coolest people there.

Gravityloss12 yıl önce

nextstep12 yıl önce

There are 299 places in Iran named "Mohammadabad".