Talk:€

Made into disambig

The page history shows different views between editors about which page to redirect to, i.e. which topic a reader typing in € would be intending to read about, making this in my view a very appropriate case for a disambig. Implemented accordingly. Arbitrary username 07:32, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

And an additional advantage of the disambig over redirecting to Euro symbol is that other articles may have (carelessly) [[€]]1000 etc; this makes it easier to find the currency article rather than the symbol.

NB: I have now also made similar changes at £ and $, and have referred to this page in my edit summaries of those articles. Arbitrary username 07:49, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Good idea. I was thinking that's what should have been done instead, when Evertype changed the redirect (he shouldn't have chosen uniformity over practicality and common sense). It caused a large problem because many pages had amounts as you just said. Although I have corrected all of them a few days ago with AWB (notice only one internal link here). Articles which were about symbols, I autocorrected to [[Euro sign|€]] and articles where the link was used in an amount of money, I autocorrected to [[Euro|€]]. - ^Рэд_хот 12:13, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

The redirect is fine, but I consider the uniformity in this case to be a case of practicality and common sense. Ta. -- Evertype·✆ 12:23, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

I would agree, only that it caused the majority of links to € to be linking to the wrong place. If you had corrected the links at the time then I would have thought, "good idea", but as you didn't it just left me thinking "Hmmm.... I don't think he really thought that one through". But it's fixed now so it doesn't really matter anyway ;) (Although I am aware a similar situation happened with the $ and £ which I don't think anyone corrected until they were changed to disambigs) - ^Рэд_хот^{(t • c • e)} 11:35, 29 October 2006 (UTC)