Talk:Karateka

Disambiguation

Found a page linking here that was not intending to link to the game. Thought disambiguation was in order.

Groucho 05:04, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

But Karateka (martial arts) just redirects to Karate (as it should: I don't see what else could be put at karateka). This being the case, wouldn't it make more sense to keep the article on the game here, with a header that says something like This article is about the blablabla game. For information on practitioners of Karate please see that article. --Iustinus 07:34, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

That's actually how the article was originally structured. But I found several articles that were directly linking here that clearly weren't intending to reference the video game. It made no sense that readers intending to learn more about a practitioner of karate would have to click through an article on a video game to get there. Somebody else turned my Karateka (martial arts) split into a redirect to karate after the fact. --Groucho 14:32, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I think the primary use of the word karateka is a practitioner of karate. Even if it might be more popular, the video game was named after karate practitioners. Also, there is no need for the article Karateka (martial arts) - it is unlikely to ever be expanded, as it is just a definition. If there are no objections, I plan to have karateka redirect to karate, and add a hatnote to karate about the video game. This dab could remain at karateka (disambiguation), though it isn't really needed. --Scott Alter 16:44, 22 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]