Talk:Trail (disambiguation)

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The purpose of the accompanying Dab page, entitled "Trail", is to help people who come there, reasonably expecting to find the article on their topic of interest, to link further and reach it. People who are looking for an audit trail article or a vapor trail one do not have such a reasonable expectation, bcz they would normally look under "audit trail" or "vapor trail" instead, and while it may be convenient to help them, that cannot get in the way of efficiently serving those who belong here. The following have been removed for that reason; perhaps the list will be useful in some other way:

• Audit trail
• Paper trail
• Breadcrumb trail
• Vapour trail
• Vortex trail

Besides those, there are topics that may have "trail" as reasonable titles, but do not have pages or sections that offer encyclopedic information on trail in that sense:

• Trail, sequence of waypoints in GPS
• Trail, the last part of closed orthographic syllables in Hangul, also known as "final"

(In this Hangul Jamo case, it does not seem that Hangul#Jamo or its subsection provide that, altho Hangul#Syllabic blocks appears to contain something like a dictionary definition of final (without mentioning "trail"). A separate article on Hangul trail may be needed. Or that former Dab-page entry may be possible to work into something appropriate, or more likely, the article may be improvable so encyclopedic information about Hangul trail, as a topic (e.g., how it works, not just a definition or implicit def'n of the term) is accessible to readers with that specific interest. In those cases, adding on this page an explanation, accessible to general readers, of why it makes sense to the Dab's job, may be needed to prevent a additional removal of the Hangul entry on the dab.)
--Jerzy•t 07:10, 2 March 2008 (UTC)