Talk:General hospital (disambiguation)

US TV series

WP:DAB#Primary topic gives this example:

For example, the primary topic Rome has a link at the top to Rome (disambiguation), where there is a link back via Rome, Italy (rather than directly to Rome).

By way of analogy, this article should link to General Hospital through its fully-qualified name General Hospital (US TV series), so I've done that.

Jordan Brown 22:41, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

In this change, Mike Halterman says "no need to go through redirects, the point of piped links is for them to go to the correct name".

Yes, I know, but as I cited above, the disambiguation guidelines appear to recommend having the DAB page link to the "full" name rather than to directly to the real name. Rome (disambiguation) links to Rome, Italy even though the real article is at Rome.

Now, maybe you're saying that as long as I needed a piped link to satisfy MoS:DAB#Piping exception #3

3. Use piping to format or quote a portion of an article whose name consists of both a title and a clarifier; for instance Harvey (film), USS Adder (SS-3), or "School" (song).

I might as well go directly to the "right" page.

Note a later sentence in MoS:DAB:

This guidance to avoid piping means that a link to a redirect term will sometimes be preferred to a direct link, if the redirect term contains the disambiguation title and the redirect target does not.

That could be read two ways: as a way to avoid piping, or as a preference for linking to the disambiguated name in preference to the ambiguous one.

Anyhow, I don't care a lot; I was just trying to do it "the right way".

Jordan Brown 07:58, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Requested move 29 February 2016

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The result of the move request was: moved. Number 57 12:26, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

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General hospital → General hospital (disambiguation) – Disregarding the U.S. series questionably occupying the uppercase title General Hospital, the actual type of hospital clearly is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for the lowercase spelling, with hatnotes being cheap. So make way for the primary topic, which happens to be a WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT to Hospital#General until we have a separate article. PanchoS (talk) 22:44, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

• 16:25, 1 May 2008‎ now-blocked user Ssbohio moved General Hospital (disambiguation) to General hospital (disambiguation), their rationale: "Manual of style & naming convention specify initial capital only for titles other than proper names"
• 03:12, 11 June 2008‎ Skier Dude moved General hospital (disambiguation) to General hospital, rationale: "disambiguation not needed"
• Move back to General Hospital (disambiguation). The only thing needing disambiguation is the proper name. The lower-case name is unambiguous. Surely Scotland is not the only place that has rural general hospitals in a generic sense, and Hospital § Types should be used to disambiguate the meaning of "general" as applied to hospitals in different parts of the world such as Thailand. – wbm1058 (talk) 16:08, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
• Support per nom. Steel1943 (talk) 21:32, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
• Support per nomination. If we're applying WP:DIFFCAPS to this, then the hospital type is primary for sentence case, and the TV series is primary for title case.  — Amakuru (talk) 09:59, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

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