Thread:Undoniel/@comment-3406131-20170302214506/@comment-10473115-20170302231938

When clicking Otto Gunther Octavius, I presume to find some info about that the name and not to be redirected to Doctor Octopus. That redirect is meant for searching purposes and it creates confusion at least for me. By our policies every real name should be a redirect to alias disambiguation. I'm all for breaking rules but not on a template level. Harry Osborn should redirect to Green Goblin and if we want to do it otherwise, it should be done by adding brackets manually. I don't like that policy about restricting disambiguation to aliases but even if we change that there's always going to redirects to the same page. And that should never happen. If some infobox has a helpful link, I don't understand why we should add a link elsewhere for consistency if it's not helpful there. Linking is meant to help a reader, not for creating consistent look.

We have to determine is a link to disambiguation helpful to a reader. If we decide that it is, we have to find a way to do it. It don't necessarily have to be infobox link. If many readers really benefit from that link, it should be made much more clearer. But if we decide that it doesn't deserve a hatnote or something like that, we still can't allow redirecting back to the same page. I agree that on Peter Parker (Earth-65) article, link to PP hub page would be good. But we shouldn't change a template before policies.

I also disagree with your position on redundant links. Those are not as bad as redirects to the same page but still a distract to a reader.