I understand the aggrevation. This is a particularly annoying problem when people pick usernames that match parts of the Perl lexicon, so that if you think you're highlighting "sort" with [sort] you're really linking to a user.

It's an ongoing problem bound to get worse. As it does, the search button at the top of the page is likely to become less useful over time, and Super Search will become more of a vital component to finding anything around here.

Do realize that the Search button at the top of every page is only searching titles. That means that if you search for "Newbie question" or "Regex Question" there will be thousands of hits, limited to 50, and probably sorted by node id. So in many ways, Super Search is already a better option.

The very problem you've mentioned (title clashes) prompted the SiteDocClan to adopt a policy "way back when" of always linking within site documentation by node id instead of by node title.

When presenting links in your nodes, the safest links are and will always be specific links, rather than best guess links. Try to favor the following types: 

[id://........]        (Node ID)
[cpan://......]        (CPAN search)
[perldoc://...]        (perldoc.com search)
[doc://.......]        (link to actual function POD or actual
                       POD documents)
[pad://.......]
.....

[download]

There are others, but you get the idea; it's better to be specific as to what you're trying to link to rather than to rely on the "lazy"  [ ..... ] links.

For the record, you can actually search for specific nodes by id, just by typing the node ID into the search box.


Dave

In reply to Re: Name clashes in lookup by title by davido
in thread Name clashes in lookup by title by bart

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