Talk:Yeats (disambiguation)

Requested move

The following is a closed discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was Overwhelmingly - No move. 199.125.109.102 (talk) 03:39, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Why? (John User:Jwy talk) 19:02, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Please give me a few minutes to write it down. Snowman (talk) 19:04, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

• Support as nominator. The page "Yeats" is currently a redirect having been moved from "Yeats (disambiguation)" without discussion. There is no clear primary page for the page, and so "Yeats" should be the dab page. "Yeats" may be confused with "Yeates" and the best place to deal with this is at a dab page. Snowman (talk) 19:04, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Yeats, Yeats (disambiguation), yates, Yeates can all be confused. Snowman (talk) 19:45, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

• Oppose - I think it it clear W.B. should be the primary target if we just consider Yeats. I suspect Yeates is much less searched, so it would be more efficient to keep it as is. Maybe a Yeates pipe on WB's page. (John User:Jwy talk) 19:17, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Yeats, Yeats (disambiguation), yates, Yeates can all be confused, and a number of readers using an incorrect spelling will all be sent straight to the article on William Butler Yeats. Snowman (talk) 19:45, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

• Oppose - as above, I agree that W.B. is the primary target for searchers who enter Yeats. --Bejnar (talk) 20:10, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Clarification.: I don't think that the disambiguation page should be at "Yeats". I feel that there should be one disambiguation page for all spellings of Yates, Yeates, Yeats, and Yaights, and that all spellings should point there; even if "Yeats" defaults to W.B. with a hatnote to the disambiguation page. --Bejnar (talk) 20:50, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

• Oppose - unless there is some new evidence that any other Yeats is remotely as well-known as W.B. older ≠ wiser 20:51, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

• Oppose - W.B. Yeats is the overwhelmingly predominant referent of the word "Yeats." Wareh (talk) 21:17, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

• Ooppose, primary topic goes at the base name Yeats, per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, even if that's a redirect. The surname list article can be at Yeates, Yates, or Yeats (disambiguation) and the other two of those options can redirect to it, if there's no primary topic for the other spellings. -- JHunterJ (talk) 23:23, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

• Oppose - W.B. Yeats is primary usage, so it is appropriate for Yeats to redirect there, with hatnote to a Dab page at Yeats (disambiguation). PamD (talk) 17:22, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

• Comment; as nominator, I would not object if the discussion was closed due to an almost overwhelming opinion to oppose, see WP:Snow. Snowman (talk) 18:14, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for piping in again - I can understand the desire to improve navigation in the scenarios you are concerned with and would support any changes that go that way short of the article change suggested. It looks like most of the cases are covered by hatnotes on the various pages. (John User:Jwy talk) 06:49, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

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