Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-24894325-20151229103324/@comment-5918438-20151229124555

You have to remember, though, that redirects don't only affect search queries. Autosuggest also pops up when you're editing. Do we really want links popping up across the wiki that do point to the right place, but use the very much incorrect disambiguation term?

Yes, blanket rules can be troublesome with certain cases, but they're also useful at making sure certain dilemmas can never happen at all. They're also great with blanket rule forts.

On the other hand, this is the cleanest solution to that sort of problem if we do propose solving it in any way. Redirects, especially redirects with just a difference in disambiguation, are pretty muted. Without looking at the source of an article which uses that dab, you might not ever notice any difference. Perhaps we'd maintain a bot list of these redirects, and every once in a while I'd run my bot to replace Jack Harkness (Hidden)—for his first audio story—with Jack Harkness (The Empty Child). (I'm assuming here that in your final example, you meant to suppose that's how we'd treat it if Jack Harkness were, in fact, dabbed.)