Talk:Lucius Licinius Crassus
Future links
This came to my attention first, naturally, with the link to Gaius Marius' projected Page. I've actually got something for that, although as with my Livy piece it is less an article than an essay. But calling it "Gaius Marius cos 107"? Nobody's going to type that... (not to mention that wasn't the only year he was consul)
But I do see the problem. There was a younger Marius, son of the first and also a consul. Other historical figures mentioned in this and other articles also share a name. How to distinguish between Romans with the same name in the Roma Antiqua portion of the Wiki, while maintaining at least some degree of intuitiveness and ease-of-use? Some suggestions, using the Many Mariuses as an example (there were a historian, a would-be emperor, and a friend of Cicero's too):
- More natural article names: Gaius Marius and Marius the Younger, perhaps. Drawback: What's natural to one person may not be to someone else.
- A "Marius" disambiguation page. Drawback: We hate disambiguation pages.
- Links to other Marius pages at the bottom of the one people are most likely to search for.
- Only writing one Marius page, for the Great One, mentioning the others in brief. (How likely are we to write full-blown articles for the not-so-famous ones?)
Thoughts, rationales, other ideas? -- Marius Peregrinus 19:35, 6 October 2007 (CEST)
