Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests
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Technical requests[edit]
Uncontroversial technical requests[edit]
- Boune, Niger → Boune (move · discuss) – Target title was disambiguated for another entry which till date hasn't been created. No primary topic claim however. Intrisit (talk) 03:18, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
- Broughderg, County Tyrone → Broughderg (move · discuss) – Target title was disambiguated for 2 other entries which till date haven't been created. No primary topic claim however. Intrisit (talk) 03:18, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
- Buckhorn High School (Alabama) → Buckhorn High School (currently a redirect back to Buckhorn High School (Alabama)) (move · discuss) – Target title was disambiguated for another entry which till date hasn't been created. No primary topic claim however. Intrisit (talk) 03:18, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
- Buccaneer Yacht Club (Alabama) → Buccaneer Yacht Club (currently a redirect back to Buccaneer Yacht Club (Alabama)) (move · discuss) – Target title was disambiguated for 4 other entries which till date haven't been created. No primary topic claim however. Intrisit (talk) 03:18, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
- Morning @Intrisit: I thought we discussed all this last week... the incorrect primary topic grabs by this now-retired editor should just be reversed, particularly since you're asserting "no primary topic claim". — Amakuru (talk) 07:31, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
- Morning to you back and I thought I said this before Bensci54 remove my last entry set as withdrawn that, "expect more of these to appear here". By looking at the page histories of these and the other ones I've listed here, at the time, Wikipedians thought of DABbing titles with articles in them, like say "Mingo" (which they rename it to "Mingo (TV series)") so there will be space for "Mingo (café)" and "Mingo (film)" only for say 5 years to pass and nothing was/were created for "Mingo (café)" or "Mingo (film)", and then another user in 5 years' time uses the PRIMARYRED instance to revert back to where it was before. I stated the "no primary topic claim" so you won't bring it up in your reply. You know what, I'll be considering proposing a policy that will check the "unnecessary" DABbing of article titles for the "other similar ones" when those ones aren't created within a year of the DAB creation, that way, this issue will be resolved completely. I wholly support the continuous encouragement of article and DAB creations and improvements here since it helps in building the encyclopaedia, but I fear that this continuous "left-overing" of red links in DAB titles when they were originally and should still be actual articles will degrade this tool (WP) rather than uplifting it like we wanted and hoped. So my point is, this ain't primary topic grabs like you're stating, I want to help eliminate the instance where when titles are DABbed, the other entries, especially those focusing on info relating to some recent events or media releases, are left as red links when they could be created or proposed for creation. Intrisit (talk) 09:30, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
- I don't really understand your contention here, I'm afraid. PRIMARYRED is clear that the lack of an article does not mean a particular topic is not in contention for primary topic, and the actions of that now-retired user in unilaterally blanking disambiguation pages without consideration for whether the extant page might be primary topic over the red link, is not in line with the guidelines. It makes no difference whether the article is created within a year, two years or ten years, it's still worthy of consideration. I get that something should be done in these cases since the situation is now inconsistent following this editor's unilateral actions, but the default fix in the absence of a positive and active determination that there's a primary topic (possibly through RM) should be to reverse the undiscussed blanking of the disambiguation pages. Looking at Boune, for example, I see nothing to suggest the tiny patch of desert in Niger is more important than the hamlet in Senegal. These are certainly not uncontroversial moves. — Amakuru (talk) 09:48, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
- By you not getting my contention means at least you get my confusion of even listing them here. Of course all these bothers on the actions of/from that one user, but it could be any other user doing this as well and that is where my focus is/was on. The fact of it not being a policy or guideline is also my suggestion of it to be that so this won't pop up again. So does this mean that through that contribs page where I get these entries from, I straight up instigate RMs for them so the community will have their take on which direction these titles and target could/would go? Because that's where I feel the issue will be resolved. Intrisit (talk) 10:25, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
- Why not just reverse the blanking of the disambiguation pages though? That blanking was made as a result of a misapplication of guidelines, and the prior stable status quo should be restored absent any other consideration. The situation with these pages is incorrect, and I can see why you listed them here, but I disagree with that approach. There is not "no policy or guideline", there is WP:PRIMARYRED, which states that we should have disambiguation pages and the previous edits that nixed those dab pages were wrong. You could start RMs if you feel that any of them merit primary topic treatment, but in the majority of cases these are fairly small entities anyway with not a lot of page views, and we rarely bother too much about one tiny entity being slightly more prominent than another tiny entity. — Amakuru (talk) 10:33, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
- By you not getting my contention means at least you get my confusion of even listing them here. Of course all these bothers on the actions of/from that one user, but it could be any other user doing this as well and that is where my focus is/was on. The fact of it not being a policy or guideline is also my suggestion of it to be that so this won't pop up again. So does this mean that through that contribs page where I get these entries from, I straight up instigate RMs for them so the community will have their take on which direction these titles and target could/would go? Because that's where I feel the issue will be resolved. Intrisit (talk) 10:25, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
- I don't really understand your contention here, I'm afraid. PRIMARYRED is clear that the lack of an article does not mean a particular topic is not in contention for primary topic, and the actions of that now-retired user in unilaterally blanking disambiguation pages without consideration for whether the extant page might be primary topic over the red link, is not in line with the guidelines. It makes no difference whether the article is created within a year, two years or ten years, it's still worthy of consideration. I get that something should be done in these cases since the situation is now inconsistent following this editor's unilateral actions, but the default fix in the absence of a positive and active determination that there's a primary topic (possibly through RM) should be to reverse the undiscussed blanking of the disambiguation pages. Looking at Boune, for example, I see nothing to suggest the tiny patch of desert in Niger is more important than the hamlet in Senegal. These are certainly not uncontroversial moves. — Amakuru (talk) 09:48, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
- Morning to you back and I thought I said this before Bensci54 remove my last entry set as withdrawn that, "expect more of these to appear here". By looking at the page histories of these and the other ones I've listed here, at the time, Wikipedians thought of DABbing titles with articles in them, like say "Mingo" (which they rename it to "Mingo (TV series)") so there will be space for "Mingo (café)" and "Mingo (film)" only for say 5 years to pass and nothing was/were created for "Mingo (café)" or "Mingo (film)", and then another user in 5 years' time uses the PRIMARYRED instance to revert back to where it was before. I stated the "no primary topic claim" so you won't bring it up in your reply. You know what, I'll be considering proposing a policy that will check the "unnecessary" DABbing of article titles for the "other similar ones" when those ones aren't created within a year of the DAB creation, that way, this issue will be resolved completely. I wholly support the continuous encouragement of article and DAB creations and improvements here since it helps in building the encyclopaedia, but I fear that this continuous "left-overing" of red links in DAB titles when they were originally and should still be actual articles will degrade this tool (WP) rather than uplifting it like we wanted and hoped. So my point is, this ain't primary topic grabs like you're stating, I want to help eliminate the instance where when titles are DABbed, the other entries, especially those focusing on info relating to some recent events or media releases, are left as red links when they could be created or proposed for creation. Intrisit (talk) 09:30, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
- Morning @Intrisit: I thought we discussed all this last week... the incorrect primary topic grabs by this now-retired editor should just be reversed, particularly since you're asserting "no primary topic claim". — Amakuru (talk) 07:31, 10 May 2024 (UTC)