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The result of the move request was: not moved. Canadian redirected to Canadians. Aervanath (talk) 02:31, 5 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Canadian (disambiguation) → Canadian – There are very few direct links to Canadian (disambiguation) and lots of links to Canadian which is just a redirect to Canadian (disambiguation). "Canadian" is an ambiguous term and the uses of that term should directly link to the page discussing that ambiguity. The redirected page is not needed. Geraldo Perez (talk) 06:54, 17 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Strong oppose Articles do not link to disambiguation pages. If your rationale for moving it is to make articles link to a disambiguation page, then that's bad. I will note that Canadian (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) used to redirect to Canada, so I suggest it revert to that usage, since linking to a disambiguation page is wrong. 70.24.251.158 (talk) 07:15, 17 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. Check out American, German, Mexican, Brazilian as examples of similar ambiguous terms being directly linked to a disambiguation page. The reason is that the terms ARE ambiguous. Linking to the disambiguation page in an article is temporary until the term is piped to the proper unambiguous article. In this case "Canada" is not always correct. Geraldo Perez (talk) 07:30, 17 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment articles do not link to disambiguation pages. We have a cleanup template for such an error, Template:Disambiguation needed. If your reason for making Canadian a disambiguation page is because articles link to it, it is wrong, because articles do not link to disambiguation pages. 70.24.251.158 (talk) 04:31, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Support as I would expect most demonyms to be disambiguation pages - as above, Canada is not always what is meant. Any link to Canadian should be changed to point to the appropriate article. 81.142.107.230 (talk) 15:44, 17 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment There are over 8000 links to Canadian, which did not redirect to a disambig until very recently. Those links should be fixed by those who want to make this change per WP:FIXDABLINKS. --JaGa^talk 01:22, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose. The term Canadian is primarily associated with people from Canada, so Canadian should redirect to Canadians. See WP:PRIMARYUSAGE. Mindmatrix 14:42, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment: I believe most of the incoming links refer to Canada rather than Canadians. (I looked at several pages and that seemed correct for them; the same is true of Turkish not counting links intending Turkish language.) However, people who type in "Canadian" are more likely to be looking for Canadians I would think. But one must ask if WP:TWODABS is relevant (as there are two primary meanings, most similar titles also may refer to a language). TimBentley (talk) 16:37, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose. as per Mindmatrix and TimBentley (talk) comment about what our readers "are more likely to be looking for", What should take place is the fixing of the link in articles and with re-writing phrases to there proper context. Moxy (talk) 01:16, 28 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

John Gilbert "Jack" Layton, PC, MP (born July 18, 1950) was a Canadian social democratic politician, who was the leader of the New Democratic Party.

John Gilbert "Jack" Layton, PC, MP (born July 18, 1950) was a social democratic politician, who was the leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada.

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.