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they want to go to the direct page and not a search results page, which is what a disambiguation page basically is. In this case, right now, when people type in Mormon, it goes to
Mormonism. One click. If it gets moved to Mormon (disambiguation), then its to basically a search page. So then someone (probably me) will have to go in and correct all of the links so they go to the right spot instead of the search page. Just to give you an idea,
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is merely a nickname for Latter-day Saints, @ChristensenMJ reverted my changes because, in his words, "Mormons is more broad than just the LDS Church". While this is obviously true--a few small groups also use the term "Mormon" as a descriptor--I don't think this is relevant to my edit. Regardless of
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The Google search engine uses very complex algorithms, and cannot be interpreted to to mean that more people who search for "Mormon" actually mean "Mormonism." As a counter example, I performed the search on Bing two minutes ago and got the opposite result. I think the principle here is that "Mormon"
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That's not a perfect comparison, because in both those cases there is no page simply about the people; "Methodists" redirects to "Methodism" and "Catholics" redirects to "Catholicism", so the issue is not whether it is singular or plural. A better example is that "Jew" redirects to "Jews" and not to
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I was asked to comment here. When I made the revert, it was because there are many many many pages linked to Mormon. If it gets moved, then it creates alot of disam links, which are incorrect links. In short, that just means that people want to be click once, not twice. Or when they type a search,
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article. The number of views does not tell us what people are looking for when they type "Mormon" into the search bar. There is also a plausible argument for making the Mormon article a disambiguation page, but I can't think of any good reasons why that would be preferable to a direct link to the
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That makes sense. I still feel that the end result is not completely on par with what the typical reader is searching for, though. In my opinion, the typical person who goes to "Mormon" is more interested in the religion than any perceived cultural divisions between adherents. I would feel more
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I would think the most logical thing would be to make "Mormon" point to the disambiguation page. It's not immediately clear to me why there should be a "Mormon (disambiguation)" page unless "Mormon" (without any qualification) obviously belongs as the name of some other article.
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I continue to disagree. I believe that "Mormonism" is the more general subject, of which "Mormons" (as adherents) is a subset. This is manifest by similar articles, such as how "Methodist" redirects to "Methodism" and "Catholic" redirects to "Catholicism."
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is the link to what links to Mormon. And thats just the first 500. If it gets moved, every one of those links will need to be corrected. So its why we need to be careful when we move or redirect pages, especially to disambiguation pages.
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