Talk:Chávez

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This page should also include: Colegio César Chávez, María Elena Chávez Caldera, and several others; it's very incomplete. freestylefrappe 00:38, 30 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

wikilinks

I took out the wikilinks to conform with my reading of Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages) and someone put them back. Am I reading the guideline wrong? Any reason they should be there? Tedernst 21:43, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

People examples under Chávez (surname)

I revised the People examples under Chávez (surname) because the prior short list was doing a poor job of guiding readers through the range of likely targets for this disambiguation page.

I also removed Carlos Chávez from this short examples list. That is not a judgment against his notability; it is a navigation judgment. He remains listed at Chávez (surname), and the People section here is not meant to reproduce that full list. Given the limited space, I tried to use the examples to cover a wider range of likely English-reader navigation targets, surname spellings, regions, professions, and durable notability markers.

This is not meant to turn the section into a second surname page. The full list remains at Chávez (surname). The point here is to give a compact set of examples that better reflects how readers are likely to arrive at this page: accented and unaccented spellings, Latin American and U.S. usage, New Mexico/Hispano usage, women, politics, labor, sports, and longer-term cultural or political notability.

I also left the rest of the page alone on purpose. One recurring problem with surname disambiguation pages is that recording acts, songs, albums, and similar entries often drift into the general People list, even when a separate Music section exists. This page already has a Music section, so a broader cleanup may be worth discussing, but I did not fold that into this edit. The change here is limited to the People examples under the surname entry.

The policy balance here is WP:DAB / MOS:DAB rather than a bare shortest-possible-list rule. MOS:DABSHORT says descriptions should be concise, but just sufficient to help the reader find the correct link; MOS:DABPEOPLE likewise allows enough identifying information to distinguish people with the same name. That is also the point of the Mozart example at MOS:DABPRIMARY: the useful entry is the one that gets the reader to the likely target cleanly, not the one that preserves an awkward or under-informative form. I also took MOS:DABFOREIGN into account because the page is dealing with a Spanish surname and English-reader navigation, not just a raw frequency list.

The descriptions are a little fuller than bare occupation labels because, in several cases, the identifying feature is not simply the person’s job title. For example, Julio César Chávez is not just a boxer; his long undefeated streak is central to why he remains a likely navigation target. Hugo Chávez is not just a former president; MBR-200 helps identify the movement context that made his presidency consequential. Eric Chavez’s Moneyball-era Oakland Athletics connection is likewise a useful navigation cue, not just trivia.

I tried to keep the entries concise while still giving readers enough information to distinguish the likely targets. The prior version was shorter, but in my view it was short at the expense of useful navigation. gregmark (talk) 20:53, 26 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]