Talk:John Christie

John Christie (singer)

I think perhaps I've been doing this wrong.

While trying to disambiguate John Christie on the The Solo Collection page, I saw that the only suitable entry was a non-link on the dab page that had been added in October 2014 by User:In_ictu_oculi. Since there was no target, I unlinked in the source page. But doing a little more looking, I found a website that tied the musician to the work with enough additional biographical information to form the basis for a possible new article. So I added the URL as hidden text at both ends of the potential link. (Possibly not a best practice, but I know I'd appreciate these breadcrumbs as an editor or knowledgeable-enough WP reader.)

Boleyn immediately deleted the whole line with a pointer to WP:DABRL. So I read what was there.

If I understand things correctly, I could have improved the situation by linking to the dab page in the source article and rescuing the line on the dab page with a Blue link to The Solo Collection or Time (Freddy Mercury song), possibly leaving a Red link on the dab page if it was my opinion that this John Christie (singer) might soon be notable enough to merit an actual article of his own (perhaps not just my opinion, whoever linked his name before may have thought so, too). Right now, though, I'm not able to make a case for WP:Notability.

So, going forward, I should decide on a case-by-case basis to either weaken the connectivity by unlinking (with a "no target" comment) or strengthen it by adding a blue link back to the source page on the dab page. Does that make sense?  —jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 09:08, 20 July 2016 (UTC)