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Disambiguation page question

Hi

I see you used WCW to remove a wikilink from Barker College here [1]. The replaced link is not exactly the same, because of a difference in case. So the link now goes through a disambiguation page. My understanding is that it shouldn't go through the disambiguation page. Can you please clarify what should be happening here?

peterl (talk) 20:59, 29 September 2019 (UTC)

~~ Hi, thanks for reaching out. I removed the link because it was a duplicate of the innertext. There is no point in adding a separate link if the innertext links to the exact same page by itself. I'm not sure what disambiguation page you're talking about, both the old and the new links redirect me to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-sex_education — Kstone999 (talk) 15:41, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

The text appearing in the link is single-sex school (note initial lowercase). But the page it links to is Single-sex school (note initial capital).

So now the link goes to:

Single-sex education

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(Redirected from Single-sex school)

Which I think is undesirable.

So it goes via a redirect page as the text is not exactly the same. (My bad; I said disambiguation page, but I meant a redirect page).

peterl (talk) 23:23, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

~~ I think we have some sort of a misunderstanding here. I completely agree that linking to redirects is undesirable. However, my initial mission was not to remove links to redirects, but to remove duplicate linking with the exact same innertext. Before my edit the text single-sex school was linking to Single-sex school and now it links to single-sex school. However, both the previous link and the current one redirect you to Single-sex education, whether or not the link starts with a capital S. So I didn't change the destination, it was linking to a redirect before and it's linking to it now. I simply removed the excess linking because the innertext would lead to the exact same page (in which case it's the redirect page).

So again, I totally agree that it would be best to link to Single-sex education directly (which I'll probably do now). But initially I did not check whether or not single-sex school is a redirect page. Again, my mission was to remove duplicate linking, not to check whether the links are pointed to a redirect page. — Kstone999 (talk) 07:57, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

All good, I see you've fixed it. Thanks. peterl (talk) 06:26, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Hijacking of DC10 flight 1970-1975

Hi, I'm wondering if you know or can find out about a hijacking which seems to have been wiped from history. I know that it happened as my parents and sister were all on the flight. I believe they were flying back to Zambia from the far east and Australia on a B.O.A.C. DC10 flight 1970-1975 ish. They stopped in Entebbe and were held by Idi Amin for several days. Part of the time they here kept in a hotel with the rest of the passengers until the hotel staff quietly got them out. I don't think anyone was seriously hurt. My father thinks that it has been hushed up due to some sort of government embarrassment. Any ideas? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ellieshelp (talk • contribs) 13:58, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

~ Hi Ellieshelp, thank you for bringing this up. From my understanding a wiki article covering this hijacking was removed from mainspace? Is there any chance you remember the exact title of that article? This would make it a whole lot easier for me to look into it. Thanks! — Kstone999 (talk) 10:40, 14 October 2019 (UTC)

I'm sorry I never saw an article. I do have a little more information to add however, although I'm not sure how much help it would be. The plane was a VC10 not a DC10. My Dad told me yesterday that Idi Amin wanted something from the plane and that when their British Caledonian flight finally took off for Zambia it was very heavy despite only a few people being on the plane. Also he found out some years later that in the hold on the original plane there were thousands of chicks - which obviously didn't survive - belonging to a white farmer in the entebbe area. Amin wasn't interested in the hostages once they were off the plane and searched - hence the hotel. He wanted whatever was on it. Also several years later my parents saw Amin in Jeddah. My Mum tried to kick him but my Dad dragged her away lol. Funny bit of info there, Mum was often in trouble with the locals in Africa and Saudi Arabia. Quite a temper and lucky she's still with us x — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ellieshelp (talk • contribs) 12:01, 14 October 2019 (UTC)

~ I'm afraid unless you can point out an exact wiki page in question, there's not much I can do for you. With the information you've given me, it would require a thorough research and a lot of time on my end, which I'm not prepared to sacrifice. Sorry. — Kstone999 (talk) 09:48, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

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