Talk:Eagle Creek (Oregon)

"completeness" of disambiguation

This page is an Oregon-specific directory of things named Eagle Creek: a frequently used named for features, especially small streams, throughout the state. The Eagle Creek disambiguation has fewer entries even though its scope is worldwide. There is an entry at the worldwide disambiguation for this page.

The progression (of a few weeks ago) of tagging this page for cleanup, merging into the worldwide page, and then cleaning out the non-navigable links was a tremendous loss in usefulness and encyclopedic facts.

This page is not strictly a disambiguation. It is much more informative than that, despite the large number of redlinks. Removing the geophysical attributes would make it much less useful and leave only many non-navigable entries. Merging this into the other page is not entirely appropriate on the basis of topic dilution, disambiguation confusion, and an apparent need for consistency with other disambiguation pages. Maybe the solution is to remove the disambiguation tag? —EncMstr (talk) 06:06, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Great idea. See the history and talk page of Bear Creek (Oregon). I've gone ahead and removed the tag. Meanwhile it might be better to only list streams here, with a hatnote about the populated place. I won't argue the notability of creeks, but I think most of the other geographic features are insignificant and don't merit articles. If they later become significant, i.e. an article gets written about them, we can always add them back to th list. Valfontis (talk) 12:51, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! I am glad you agree. I couldn't recall which other page was similar even though it was merely two years ago at Bear Creek (Oregon). —EncMstr (talk) 15:59, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Here's an example of a "set index" list that I came across today, if we need to go the route of "List of creeks named Eagle in Oregon" or some dreadful title like that: List of lakes named Diamond. Valfontis (talk) 19:50, 2 June 2011 (UTC)