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475:(pending further evidence): The question is what percentage of those 30 views per month are people looking for the article about the footballer instead of the one about the singer. That is something we don't know. What we do know is that the article about the singer gets about 500 times as many page views as the one about the footballer, and that "Steven Morrissey" is the actual name of both people. The footballer (with an article that only gets about 6 page views per day and does not describe any awards or exceptional accomplishments or personal notoriety) doesn't seem that highly notable. Also, a web search for "Steven Morrissey" yields results that are heavily dominated by the singer, and nothing at all about the footballer in page-after-page of search results (except Knowledge itself, and not on the first page). — 888:. After consideration, while the Morrissey is overwhelmingly introduced mononymously, it is very well known that he is "Steven Morrissey", it is not unreasonable for someone to think they could him covered by a biography titled "Steven Morrissey", and for many Morrissey-interested readers, the footballer is completely obscure to them, and them downloading the footballer's page would be too astonishing. Also not e that the suffix "(footballer)" adds considerable improvement to the recognisability for the 490:
the singer, so we can assume the proportions landing on the redirect also weigh heavily toward the singer. However, in absolute terms the numbers are so low that we can afford to put both articles at their best possible titles, in my opinion. Of course, a hatnote on the footballer would be appropriate. Another consideration is that if the article is not moved we should technically add a {{redirect}} hatnote to
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I agree that the disadvantage of a move would be some readers (fewer than one per day, or 0.033%) looking for the singer would need to click on a hatnote on the footballer. The advantage would be the footballer would be at his real name without artificial disambiguation and the almost useless hatnote
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It's not unusual for all of the uses of an ambiguous term to not be known to the public in general. If likely ASTONISHment by searchers of the other uses was a reason to not put a primary topic at a basename, we could only put widely recognized topics with ambiguous names at base names. But that has
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We can safely assume that close to 100% of the 30 views per month were looking for the singer, for two reasons. First, there were a half dozen wikilinks to the redirect until I changed them (that should also lower the number of views a little). Second, as you say, 500 times as many people look for
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2nd sentence disagree. Astonishment must be considered, but hte astonishment risk may be small and the not quite universally know topic can quite reasonably be put at the basename, certainly if for all other topics, the readers for that topi cwould understand that their topic is a niche
524:, and we should send people to the article about the singer (where there should be a hatnote about where to go if looking for someone else). Why send people to an article about the footballer if most of them are looking for the singer? The fact that there were a half dozen Wikilinks to 824:'s point -- "Neither is known to the audience of the other" -- to this decision. No policy or guideline even suggests we consider such a factor, explicitly or implicitly, as far as I know. Given that essentially no one refers to the singer by this name (the dearth of 694:. If the Jamaican footballer was a major player on the international scene, the choice would be easy. However, since he is not, and the singer is not known to the public by the full name "Steven Morrissey", I would 954: 211: 949: 739:
to the other uses of the term. If one meets the criteria, then it's the primary topic, even if it's relatively obscure in general (as long as the other uses are even more obscure). --
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per Station1, it does seem a bit odd to give the PT to a different topic when the singer who's full name gets 500x the views. I have added a hatnote as suggested.
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Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a
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that were intended to link to the singer is further evidence that people are expecting the singer (not the footballer) to be found at
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3rd sentence. Sorry, you are not a reliable source for practices at Knowledge, you have a highly skewed and blinkered view. --
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Category listing entries, hovertext, urls, and other downstream uses. The proposal is bad for readers of both articles. --
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The percentage of readers looking for the singer is irrelevant. What matters is the percentage of readers looking at
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for this name. Searching for the footballer with this name, on the other hand, is highly likely. I think
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never been the practice on WP. Primary topic is determined by looking at likelihood of being sought
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on Knowledge. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
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are looking for the singer, those people shouldn't be sent to an article about a footballer. —
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Because Station1 has given some good arguments, however I'm leaning towards weak oppose.
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Then why are you saying you're unsure instead of continuing to oppose the proposal? —
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is clear here, and I see no policy/guideline based reason to oppose this move. --
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Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a
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for the singer. As long as a significant percentage of the people looking at
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redirect currently averages just one hit per day out of almost 3,000 for
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Create a DAB page. Neither is known to the audience of the other. --
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could be eliminated. Frankly, it makes little difference either way.
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who does not use that name professionally, unlike the footballer.
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from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially
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If it is clear that nearly all of the Knowledge interest for
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a
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