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all refer to long-legged arthropods, but there is no point in creating a "broad concept" article covering that. Simply grouping them under a "Biology" heading on the DAB page is all the connection that needs to be highlighted. (Likewise, if there were songs and films called "Popular
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I'm not sure what you mean by "the nuances of 'popular election'". Are you suggesting that each entry in the current DAB list is a separate "nuance" of a single overarching meaning? That is not the case. They are separate meanings. Treat them as totally unrelated. If you want to find out more about
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don't understand the nuances of "popular election". Obviously, you do. Would you be willing to actually summarize all that you're trying to do with "disambiguation" links and actually write an article? Then other articles can link the term "popular election", knowing there is an article there that
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applies. If your hypothetical user doesn't know what "popular election" means but does know what "universal suffrage" means, the fact that the phrase "universal suffrage" does not contain the words "popular" or "election" is not a problem. If they don't know what "universal suffrage" is, then they
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To be honest, I still have a concern here. Several articles link the term "popular vote" in the manner referred to above, and those articles link to this "Popular election" article. I don't think a casual user looking for meaning for "popular vote" will get the information they seek from this
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Say I'm a user trying to figure out the term "popular election". I put that in the search box and end up here. NONE of the entries on this page have the words "popular election" in its title, so I end up frustrated and no wiser than I was. That's why there needs to be a
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I still disagree. If the existing explanations are not clear to you, maybe each can be improved by rewording; but major expansion would make it harder for a reader to zoom in on the one meaning they are interested in. No objections from me to an RFC.
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From what you say, it's clear that "popular election" has more than one meaning. All I'm saying is that there should be an article here explaining those meanings. If you still disagree with that idea, I think an RFC is the way to go. —
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and the winning party is the one with the most elected members - but several articles also refer to the term "popular vote" to talk about how the overall voting went. I don't what article to use to disambiguate the term
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is about "popular election", because "popular election" and "universal suffrage" are synonyms. They mean the same thing. The "broad concept" article that covers all the different meanings on the DAB would simply be
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A disambiguation page, because the term has multiple meanings. If someone wishes to create an article called 'popular election' and then list the article to this disambiguation page, that is alright.
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This has caused new disambiguation issues in several articles, I have found. For example, Canadian elections (federal and provincial) are indirect elections - we vote for a representative for our
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A disambiguation page. A simple re-direct would be too presumptuous about all the possible different topics someone might be looking for with the terminology. Invited to comment by
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