Talk:Weapon pistol

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If we were to make a disambiguation page, should we make one giant page on which all entities across all games should be listed?

Example:

 ==Disambiguation==
 This page contains various entities of same or similar names as well as pages about a similar topic on different aspects of content creation, which could be confused with each other.
 <entities and pages listed in alpha-numerical order...>
 
 Weapon_molotov
 Weapon_molotov Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
 Weapon_molotov-l4d Left 4 DeadLeft 4 Dead 2
 
 Weapon_pistol 
 Weapon_pistol Half-Life 2
 Weapon_pistol-csgo Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
 Weapon_pistol-l4d Left 4 Dead
 Weapon_pistol-l4d2 Left 4 Dead 2
 ...

Of course the entity pages would need their own page name that isn't the entity name itself, as seen by the -csgo, -l4d and -l4d2 suffixes in the proposed page names.
But the visible names would be changed to the actual entity name using [[Weapon_molotov-l4d|Weapon_molotov]].
This could make searches a bit harder, unless every page contains some kind of disambiguation template, linking them to the main page to find all other entities of the same name.

We currently have [[Category:Disambiguation]] which is not very satisfactory to me. we also have {{Disambig}} which looks like this:

Icon-disambig.png
This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
If an article link referred you to this title, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.

which implies that we have several disambiguation pages, which i feel like is only adding more pages which just link a few other pages. Any other ideas or suggestions?
--MrFunreal (talk) 07:37, 24 March 2021 (PDT)