Fritzober

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Karen Smith

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Thank you. Leschnei (talk) 22:48, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

Hello @Leschnei: I can follow your reasoning only limited. I was looking for Karen Smith, a high-ranking UN diplomat who was Special Adviser of the UN Secretary-General. But in the German Wikipedia I found nothing. In the English Wikipedia I found lots of athletes, an award-winning model, three academics, the victim of a massacre and a fictional character, but not the person I was looking for. Maybe I'll get around to writing the relevant article myself someday, but I'd certainly be happy if I could find "my" Karen Smith at all. With kind regards Fritzober (talk) 23:38, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

I think of disambiguation page like the index of a book - if the subject isn't covered in the book, it doesn't help the reader to list it the index. On the other hand, it leads to a lot of frustration, as you described. Leschnei (talk) 01:08, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

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