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Shorten golf majors?

In the article, the entry for golf major currently reads:

A major in golf is one of the four or five most important yearly tournaments. In the United States, the PGA TOUR and LPGA tour have four majors, while the Champions Tour for golfers 50 and over has five. All other top-level men's tours worldwide recognize the same four majors as the PGA TOUR. The LPGA Tour for women also has four majors.

I suggest that this is too much explanation of details for a disambiguation page. I feel the disambiguation page should only contain info useful for directing your request, not info about the topic. Differentiating ideas, not trivia. In that spirit, i would edit thusly:

A major in golf is one of the set of most important yearly tournaments. In the United States, the PGA Tour, the LPGA tour and the Champions Tour have their own set of majors.

I feel this helps the reader because it suggests that if you've heard the word major as well as any of those other words near it, this is your link. However, it doesn't tell us the number, location, or the offical rules surrounding them. If we want to know this, we simply click on the link for Majors, or any of the particular golfing leagues. More concise, i feel.

Please comment. – Fudoreaper 09:44, 2 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, shorter is better, less to maintain. In fact, I prefer not to have links in the text except for the one actually being disambiguated, they don't really serve any purpose, but it's almost impossible to keep mindless link-adders from putting them back if you de-link. Stan 12:23, 2 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting you talk about additional links their foolish purpose. see [1] - a dab page i edited a bit, but was cleaned up to wikipedia style. Perhaps this page should be changed to follow that format. — Fudoreaper 19:50, 4 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Shorter, but not accurate. The men's majors are not endorsed solely by the PGA Tour and they aren't all in the States. Scranchuse 03:43, 13 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]