Talk:Lamar Hunt Trophy

MOS:DAB "Linking to a primary topic"

The AFC Lamar Hunt Trophy is definitely more widely known than the other so it needs to be primary Hutcher (talk) 10:11, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

The primary topic guidelines of MOS:DAB refer to pages like school where typing "school" into the search box links directly to the school article but the school article links School (disambiguation) at the top of the article. That doesn't apply to this type of disambig page. In any case, the AFC trophy is listed first, so I don't think it's a big deal. Ryan2845 (talk) 19:32, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

• I'm not sure the guidelines directly address this claim, but it is logical, and seems to be common, to apply primary-topic Dab'n where the title being Dab'd is occupied by a redirect. For example, Kant is a Rdr to Immanuel Kant, and Kant (disambiguation) is (duh) the Dab page.
  If a proposal is made here at talk:Lamar Hunt Trophy to convert the accompanying Dab page to a Rdr to AFC Championship Game#Lamar_Hunt_Trophy, with notice given at both talk:AFC Championship Game & talk:Border War (Kansas–Missouri rivalry), and the proposal succeeds, then the Dab'n function will be provided by a HatNote-Dab notice just below the "Lamar Hunt Trophy" sec'n heading, reading something like

"Lamar Hunt Trophy" redirects here. For the Border War award, see the "Lamar Hunt Trophy" section of the "Border War (Kansas–Missouri rivalry)" article.

I'd argue that this talk page is the proper place for deciding to do that, but the essential point is being treated as a primary topic on a Dab page is not a matter of being, say, "definitely more widely known", but rather of directly or indirectly (i.e., via a Rdr) occupying the page with the un-suffixed title.
--Jerzy•t 14:59, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Misc. fixes

I mention only two important points (and omit even fixing some fine points that might distract from them):

1. In the lead line of an equal-Dab'n Dab pg, the bolded occurrence of the pg title has the same meaning as, in this case

   The phrase "Lamar Hunt Trophy"

   bcz it is that phrase, not the prize, that may refer to any of several topics.

   I removed the "The" from

   The Lamar Hunt Trophy

   bcz its presence would mean asserting that the prize whose name is "The Lamar Hunt Trophy" refers to the topics, i.e. bears writing that mentions the respective games or the winning of them; perhaps true, but not to the point, which is to connect the title of the Dab to each topic by means of

   mentioning the title of our page for the respective topic and

   linking to the page for that topic.

   (With a primary-topic-Dab'n Dab pg, the 1st-line bolded occurrence is followed by "is", implying equality, not reference, as in

   The Lamar Hunt Trophy is the award for...

   but the "...may refer to..." line still begins with use of the title as a phrase.)

2. In articles, the MoS calls for frequent piping of lks, but MoSDab generally forbids piping (with using the piping to add quotation marks or italics being the main exception.
   It's absurd to suppose that marking up a lk within the pg Border War (Kansas–Missouri rivalry) to look like one within the pg Border War is permissible bcz a section lk is involved, and i've also redone that piping.
   --Jerzy•t 14:59, 11 February 2010 (UTC)