Talk:Fab Five

Smack, I appreciate the changes you're trying to make here -- I participated in the disambiguation discussions for the MoS, but I think this particular page needs a little more explanation for its entries. There's not much on the individual articles about "the fab fives" or why they were named that way, nor should there be -- this page is a good place to provide these small details. It may be good to trim some of them a bit, or to remove the picture, but I think this is one Dab page which might be considered half-article. — Catherine\^talk 22:03, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

You're right that there isn't much on the individual articles about the "fab fives". I also admit that I'm biased against sports and entertainment articles, so I may have been careless in removing material from here and not restoring it where it belongs. However, this is not the place to resolve these problems. According to the MoS, disambigs have no business distracting the reader with this kind of material. It says, The primary purpose of the disambiguation page is to help people find the page they want quickly and easily.

For an example of a disambig that could delve into etymological tidbits, but chooses not to, see Daedalus (disambiguation). (It's hardly a model of MoS conformance, but it does illustrate my point. Also, note that I've never edited it.) The abundance of things called 'Daedalus' is no coincidence; they're all named for the mythological character. Few of the articles say anything about what the various Daedali have to do with the original Daedalus - but the disambig keeps its silence as well, and it's much the better for it. --Smack (talk) 16:39, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Most of the Fab Fives on this disambiguation page have specific pages (i.e. Duran Duran on the Duran Duran page). The two sports groups do not. I don't know much about the Brisbane Lions, but just surfing, I was expecting an actual Fab Five page for the Michigan basketball team. I would add one if it seems like a good idea, but i was just looking something up, so I don't know much. --nalin35 23:39, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Completely agree that there should be a Fab Five page for Chris Webber et al. from the Michigan Basketball team. I can't believe an obsessed person hasn't started one yet. There should be no end of references out there. This disambiguation page isn't very useful by linking to general articles.--Skoch3 05:49, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

yall should make a page about the The Fab 5 from the Michigan University Basketball Team

This page is becoming fancruft, as seen by that Fab Four (Is somebody missing a finger?) that only played five minutes of good Finals basketball. After checking for an existing article, I will stub a U-M article, if needed. This page should seriously consider being renamed as a disambiguation.MMetro (talk) 18:50, 9 April 2008 (UTC

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The link to *Willie Mcgee* in the following paragraph is misleading:

" The Akron Fab Five, who won a national high school basketball championship, best known to be Lebron James's high school. There is also a book about them that James wrote, Shooting Stars , and a movie, More Than a Game

Lebron James, Dru Joyce, Sian Cotton, >>>>>Willie Mcgee<<<<<, and Romeo Travis"

The link is taking you to the Baseball player Willie Mcgee.