Talk:Cream

Hum, I don't think this type of disambigution is appropriate here. As a general rule we should only do this level of disambiguation when two widely known and used terms share the same word. An example would be [[Mars]] which is nearly as widely known as being the Roman god as it is for being the 4th planet from the sun. Iv'e never heard of the band named cream so I doubt that the band's name is really nearly as widely known as is the food item. For example, It would be foolish to have Paul Simon page made into a disambiguation page just becasue their is a congressman from Illinois with the same name. Having a link to Paul Simon (politician)[?] at the bottom of Paul Simon would be the preffered way to go (better yet - find out what the middle name of the politician is, and if it is different from the Paul Simon, then have an article named Paul X Simon[?] for the politician -- where "X" is his middle initial). This project aims to make more than 100,000 articles and probably more -- if we took disambiguation to the extreme, then nearly all the articles about famous people and things would have to be turned into disambiguation pages since there probably are numersous other far less famous, yet still important historically, people and things with the same names. We should avoid the use of parenthetical disambiguation whenever possible (especially for the most widely known use of a word). I think this is the case here; compare a Google search for <Cream -"Eric Clapton"> (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=cream+-%22Eric+Clapton%22) with <Cream "Eric Clapton"> (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=cream+%22Eric+Clapton%22). You get more than 800,000 more hits by excluding "Eric Clapton" than including the name. If there is no objection, I will move cream (food) back to cream and place a link to cream (band) at the bottom of cream's page. --maveric149, Saturday, May 25, 2002

I moved the food item back but put a link to the band at the top of the article. --maveric149