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Suggested move[edit]

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: No move. While there's rough consensus that the term "Zamboni" chiefly refers to ice resurfacers generically, the creation of Zamboni Company, makers of trademarked Zambonis, in the middle of this RM clouds the issue and suggests that disambiguation is the most useful situation for our readers at present. Any future RM needs to consider whether the generic use is more common than Zamboni Company Zambonis and all other uses combined. Cúchullain t/c 16:24, 28 February 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]



ZamboniZamboni (disambiguation) – The WP:PRIMARYTOPIC of Zamboni is Ice resurfacer, so Zamboni should redirect to ice resurfacer, and the disambiguation page displaced. [1][2][3][4][5] --Relisted. Cúchullain t/c 15:25, 14 February 2013 (UTC) -- 76.65.128.43 (talk) 03:14, 17 January 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Survey[edit]

I don't understand this comment. Zamboni is already clear described as a disambiguation page. Are you suggesting that disambig pages should always have "(disambiguation)" as part of their titles? I have not encountered such a suggestion before. Dicklyon (talk) 18:16, 17 January 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
No Kauffner. That's a common myth. Typically a page with the title "XXXX (disambiguation)" does not even show up in prompts at the WP search box (top right of the screen). Not till the reader types in "XXXX d", and sometimes not even then. We know about DAB pages; the readers don't! Who makes a Google search on "XXX disambiguation"? No wonder explicitly marked DAB pages get so few Google hits, and so few pageviews. NoeticaTea? 03:06, 18 January 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I never use DAB pages, so I had no idea. Now I find out that the readers don't know about them either. So it is confirmed that such pages are indeed the bitter, spiteful core of uselessness! Kauffner (talk) 14:53, 19 January 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Dicklyon, it's a perennial proposal at the disambiguation project, but it's never gained consensus; Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation/Archive 26#Disambiguation pages without the term "(disambiguation)" in their title, for example, was the one I could find first. Kauffner, readers know about disambiguation pages, despite Noetica's rhetoric. But I'll yield the point if the consensus is to delete all disambiguation pages and force readers to rely on the search box and search results to find topics with ambiguous titles. (That's my rhetoric, yes.) -- JHunterJ (talk) 19:20, 19 January 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
JHJ, you write: "Kauffner, readers know about disambiguation pages, despite Noetica's rhetoric." That was not rhetoric, that was a substantive statement of mine: "We know about DAB pages; the readers don't! Who makes a Google search on 'XXX disambiguation'?" You are free to disagree, and to show why you disagree. The question that I add is not rhetorical either. I know, from sitting next to naive users of Wikipedia and guiding them, that they have idea of such things. I have never observed anyone (apart from myself, to survey articles as a Wikipedia editor) searching on a title like this: "XXXX (disambiguation)". Truthfully, now: Does it seem plausible to you that a large proportion of readers (not editors!) would know to do that? NoeticaTea? 00:40, 20 January 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
A substantive statement used rhetorically. I was not mistaking "rhetoric" for "empty rhetoric". I disagree because the page-hit counts of disambiguation pages cannot be attributed to savvy editors alone. No, they don't search for them, but when their searches land them at pages they weren't looking for, they use them to navigate to their sought topic. "Use XXXX (disambiguation)" is not "Search on XXXX (disambiguation)". -- JHunterJ (talk) 11:50, 20 January 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Actually, that was a unique opportunity to assess a primary topic here. This dab received some 30,000 views, which is far more than a dab generally should. I suspect most of those readers were also ice surfacer views. --BDD (talk) 19:05, 17 January 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
That's 40345, in January so far. But take a look at the chart. Something's not right! What is the history of the article Zamboni that would account for the anomaly? Compare the equally anomalous pageviews for Ice resurfacer, to which Zamboni machine redirects: 133812! All of this has to be explained. It is a nice example of how analysis of evidence is necessary! Not unthinking acceptance. NoeticaTea? 03:06, 18 January 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
That's my point as well, BDD. It's fairly obvious that at least 95% of the readers intended to go to the article about the ice resurfacer machine. That's why I support a move. HeyMid (contribs) 08:27, 18 January 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Once again, Apteva, you ignore the points that have been made already. The pageviews are wild and weird. Just look at the monstrous spikes over the last few days. Those statistics tell us nothing until the situation is investigated. They are entirely misleading. Why do you pretend nothing has been said about them here? Go and look at them. NoeticaTea? 04:37, 18 January 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Please focus on the subject and not on the editor. WP:FOC. There is nothing here that changes anything that I said, nor the validity of it. The fact that the article was moved has nothing to do with the suggestion that it is misnamed, and is clearly the primary topic. The page views are wild but completely understandable - about 10 million people just heard the word "Zamboni" for the first time and looked it up in Wikipedia. See 2012–13 NHL lockout. Apteva (talk) 04:51, 18 January 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I was focusing on the topic earlier with detailed points that no one else had yet made; then you came in and ignored those points as if they not been made at all. I pointed that out, and requested that you respond to those points. This is supposed to be a discussion, right? Now, you write: "The fact that the article was moved has nothing to do with the suggestion that it is misnamed, and is clearly the primary topic." The fact that what article was moved? From what title to what title? When, and by whom? What relevance has that to these very peculiar pageview charts (go look at the spikes in them!): Zamboni (40345) and Ice resurfacer (133812)? Ice resurfacer had 110455 views on 16 January 2013, but only 324 on 14 January. Why? We can't just take pageviews averaged over four weeks when that sort of thing is going on. Finally, what is the relevance of 2012–13 NHL lockout, "a labour dispute that began at 11:59 pm EDT on September 15, 2012"? How is that in any way comparable to the present articles? There may be a simple explanation for all this; but no one has given it. Please do! NoeticaTea? 08:45, 18 January 2013 (UTC) Late addition: I've done the required work. See my updates, above; and in #Discussion, below. –NoeticaReply[reply]
It is not the start of the labor dispute that is significant but the end. Hockey has been in the news because of that. I did not see the google widget but I certainly heard about hockey in the news about the time of that spike, and that was the day of some exhibition games that were televised. Apteva (talk) 06:28, 22 January 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Come on! "Virtually certain"? The world is larger than that. Readers could easily be looking just for a survey of the possible meanings, or perhaps specifically for one of these: Anteo Zamboni, Frank Zamboni, Giovanni Fortunato Zamboni, Giovanni Zamboni, Giuseppe Zamboni, Marco Zamboni, Maria Zamboni, Paolo Zamboni, Zamboni (song), Zamboni pile, The Zamboni, The Zambonis, Guelfo Zamboni, Zambon, or Luigi Zamboni. To say nothing of these topics without articles on English Wikipedia, but on Italian Wikipedia: "Adolfo Zamboni", "Adriano Zamboni", "Cesare Zamboni", "Filippo Zamboni", and "Massimo Zamboni". And have you considered Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency?
Please justify your claim by a survey of those topics, presenting pageviews to make your case for changing the present arrangement. Pageviews before the recent ephemeral spike, of course. Not everyone in the world follows ice hockey, or cares one iota for the machine most often used in North America to restore the surface. Anyway, if Zamboni were so prominent in that context, why is the article for that device at Ice resurfacer, a title that does not even include the word?
NoeticaTea? 00:18, 19 January 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Powers, still waiting for an answer to my question. And see the statistical compendium I have posted in #Discussion. NoeticaTea? 02:46, 24 January 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
You're confusing ice hockey with an ice skating surface, which is also used in, figure skating, among other things, so zambonis appear linked to much more than just ice hockey. -- 76.65.128.43 (talk) 08:24, 19 January 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Meh. Doesn't affect anything here. For what it's worth, The Zamboni ice resurfacer has undergone a short sharp spike in interest because of Google's Doodle, building on ice hockey's popularity in North America. Ice hockey had 256,071 pageviews in the last 90 days; Figure skating had 86,234 (about one third as many). More important: that spike for Ice resurfacer has receded now, down from 110,455 on 16 January to 952 on 18 January. Less than 1% of what it was. The Zamboni DAB page on those same days? Reduced to less than 5%. NoeticaTea? 09:17, 19 January 2013 (UTC) See the statistical compendium I have posted in #Discussion. NoeticaTea? 02:46, 24 January 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]


Discussion[edit]

No. Compare the huge DAB page Marconi, to take another inventor. Not a redirect to Marconi, California, for example. "Zamboni" might be searched for in connection with any of these topics:
Article        12/2012 pageviews

Anteo Zamboni               1336
Frank Zamboni               2989
Giovanni Fortunato Zamboni    17
Giovanni Zamboni             200
Giuseppe Zamboni             195
Ice resurfacer              8959
Marco Zamboni                176
Maria Zamboni                743
Paolo Zamboni               1994
Zamboni (song)               570
Zamboni pile                1228
The Zamboni                  168
The Zambonis                 580
Guelfo Zamboni               122
Luigi Zamboni                140
CCVI*                       3637
                    Total: 23054

* Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency; has several redirects that include "Zamboni", like Zamboni procedure
A complete non sequitur.
Not proven, and not helpful for anyone finding the term "Zamboni" with a concealed allusion to the song, and seeking help on Wikipedia to determine the possible meanings.
Of limited relevance; the tail of the drastically reducing spike is still with us, for a little longer. See the section above, regarding the artificial "Google Doodle" spike in pageviews. See WP:RECENT about such spikes: "A news spike is a sudden mass interest in any current event, whereupon Wikipedians create and update articles on it, even if some readers later feel that the topic was not historically significant in any way."
If so, so what? It has many other meanings as well, and in publications (reliable sources) those meanings dominate over a North American piece of seasonal sports equipment, whose article gets fewer than half of the pageviews for all of the sixteen relevant articles listed above – to say nothing of other topics in miscellaneous articles (and which have articles on Italian Wikipedia).

NoeticaTea? 02:35, 24 January 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Is anyone still in favor of this, even after the pageview stats tabulated above seem to indicate the ice resurfacer doesn't even get half of all the Zamboni-related traffic? Dicklyon (talk) 07:07, 25 January 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]

This question does not require an answer and is quite frankly an example of wp:point to even ask. Apteva (talk) 19:51, 25 January 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Actually, it's a good question. Editors ought really to have changed their opinions in response to what I revealed above, about the WP:RECENTISM masked by an enormous artificial spike in pageviews. NoeticaTea? 21:28, 25 January 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Surname holders in general are partial title matches. The only actually ambiguous topics here are the machine, the corporation, and the song. The machine is the primary topic for the title "Zamboni", even in light of what you revealed above. No one would expect to find an article on any of the people to be encyclopedically listed as just "Zamboni". Editors ought really to change their opinions in response to what I have revealed here. -- JHunterJ (talk) 16:49, 26 January 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Right. Partial title matches only count if it can be shown that people are searching for them with just the surname. You can't just look at the pageviews. Powers T 00:02, 27 January 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
File:GLWC Homemade Zamboni.JPG
GLWC Zamboni
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Move discussion in progress[edit]

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Ice resurfacer which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 18:30, 24 December 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Keeping it simple, per DABNOINCLUDE[edit]

Adding this as an Edit request because I am involved in the current Move request at Ice resurfacer, which is linked from here.

In the first bullet, please change:

to:

per WP:DABNOINCLUDE. No hurry. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 05:59, 13 January 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Reply 12-JAN-2019

  COI not applicable  
"Adding this as an Edit request because I am involved in the current Move request at Ice resurfacer"

Regards,  Spintendo  06:44, 13 January 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Spintendo: Thanks for that detailed explanation, I understand better about COI re editor roles now than I did before, and about non-conflicting internal roles in this particular case. This time around, even absent COI, I think I'll just let an uninvolved editor do the honors if they wish to, or not, as the case may be. Thanks again, Mathglot (talk) 09:32, 13 January 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Notes

  1. ^ In the circumstance involving the move request, the central issue revolves around which competing guidelines should apply — WP:PRECISION or WP:COMMONNAME.
  2. ^ There are situations where a Wikipedia editor would have an internal conflict of interest, such as the guideline that a GA reviewer ought not to have been a frequent editor of the article being reviewed. Currently, no such rules cover the situation at hand, that of prohibiting the making of changes to either articles' DAB page listings when those pages are involved in a WP:RM process.

Requested move 26 May 2023[edit]

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) CLYDE TALK TO ME/STUFF DONE (please mention me on reply) 04:13, 2 June 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]


ZamboniZamboni (disambiguation) – so that Zamboni can redirect to ice resurfacer. This proposal is not to move ice resurfacer.

Steps to complete move:

  1. ZamboniZamboni (disambiguation)
  2. Zamboni redirects to ice resurfacer
  3. Edit hatnote at ice resurfacer to note Zamboni (disambiguation) Wracking 💬 03:54, 26 May 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
See WP:PT1: A topic is primary for a term with respect to usage if it is highly likely—much more likely than any other single topic, and more likely than all the other topics combined—to be the topic sought when a reader searches for that term.
Even using your calculation of outgoing clicks, "ice resurfacer" is the primary topic by virtue of being more sought-after than all other outgoing clicks combined. Wracking 💬 18:58, 28 May 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I find this a very odd approach to the primary topic guideline and WikiNav. None of these things are gospel, they're just tools, we're supposed to apply them judiciously. This strikes me as trying to find a interpretation that fits a pre-conceived notion, and to ignore any other interpretations. --Joy (talk) 20:26, 29 May 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.