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If you read Planetary hours you can see quite clearly where all the Day of Planet X and Hour of Planet X redirects come in. "Monday is always the Day of the Moon. Tuesday is the day of Mars, Wednesday is ruled by (the day of )Mercury, Thursday is Jupiter's day, Friday is the day of Venus, Saturday is the day of Saturn, and Sunday is the day of the Sun." "The first planetary hour of the day is always the same as the planetary day; so sunrise on Monday is the beginning of both the day of the Moon and the hour of the Moon...the second planetary hour of the day of the Moon is the hour of Saturn, the third would be the hour of Jupiter, and so on."

With the days of the week, I think the link is less good, as they are named after a mixture of deities and planets Mona(moon)'s day; Tiw's day, Woden's day, Thor's day, Freya's day, Saturn's day, Sunne's day, and not the "Day of" structure, but specifically the anglo saxon form.

As for radicals and free radicals, (sorry, Black Kite's talkpage seems to be on my watchlist), it may help to know that a 'free-radical' is a thing (what thing I'm not exactly sure, but it's some sort of chemical particle like a molecule or something), whereas in all the other uses 'radical' is an adjective qualifying 'theory', and meaning 'diverged from the accepted version'.--Elen of the Roads (talk) 18:32, 3 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Ah, I might have read about stuff like that in the past but I guess I forgot. That's pretty cool, since I do like some Norse mythology (even if it's somewhat Marvel/Palladium focused rather than reading straight from the source). I'm not too familiar with Tiw (not the same as Tyr possibly?) but I wonder if he's like Ares? Hermes doesn't seem like a match for Odin although I can definitely see how Freya would be linked with Aphrodite. Still not totally sure where Planet X fits in, except for the hours of the day since you'd need 24 as opposed to 7 I guess. I think free-radical should redirect to the use in chemistry (and +theory, to that regarding aging) but without the dash (free radical/Radical) is where I am apprehensive since it could refer to those divergent works, because I don't want to inject my preference for chemistry into redirecting. Tyciol (talk) 18:39, 3 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Tiw is the saxon equivalent of Tyr, but their mythologies are somewhat different. The planetary hours recycle - please read the first few paragraphs of the article and you'll see how it works.

Free radical (capitals as you please) should only redirect to the chemistry use, as none of the other uses of Radical also involve Free, so someone entering free radical with miscapitialisation is certainly looking for the chemistry usage. Radical theory should not be the subject of a dab because the phrase "Radical theory" may in other places be 'a new theory of....' or 'a revolutionary theory of....'. Except for the theory about chemical radicals where it is acually the name of the thing, it is unlikely that a searcher would put in 'radical theory' rather than "Veblen" or "Social Evolution" or "Journal of Radical Theory" (which should certainly exist as a redirect to the longer name) , or Thought Dreams or whatever.--Elen of the Roads (talk) 18:57, 3 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Um, I was coming here to say the same thing. The word "radical" in "Free Radical Theory" is a completely different meaning from the standard use of the word (No.4 in the linked listed) in the phrase "Radical theory of...". "Radical theory" on its own is such a vague term that it can't really redirect anywhere. It would be like trying to redirect the phrase "interesting idea", for example.

• Meanwhile, FRTA would be a good dab to create. There are at least four uses that I can see in a search. Black Kite 05:44, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Elen has mentioned the FRTA links on my talkpage. I think the Chacha redirect is also a good one (plenty of Google hits). But please do not start on the middle name redirects again. Just - no. Black Kite 22:24, 10 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Also, what was this about? The FRT in this article's title was nothing to do with Free Radical Theory. Black Kite 22:26, 10 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Re above ^^. That was a "see also", placed at the top of the article rather than the bottom. It wasn't a disambiguation hatnote. Elen of the Roads (talk) 22:30, 10 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• You could list the other chemical FRT on the FRTA dab - I don't think that would be wrong. And disambiguate Free Radical Theory and Flippase thingybob (can you tell I failed Chemistry at school) if you so wish. But I wouldn't create an FRT dab that pointed to the other meanings of FRTA, as the contractions you have proposed are difficult (Fox River Trolley makes no sense, Franklin regional transit is bad english, and Federal reserve transparency is an existing financial concept, so you would have to show that the acronym FRT did not apply to it.) Elen of the Roads (talk) 10:30, 11 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I hadn't heard of flippase until now either :) Anyway I purposefully didn't mention Fox River Trolley (I did not consider it an acronym). I am not sure if transit is bad english though, I've heard phrases that end in transit, such as York Region Transit. Presumably the 'authority' is whoever controls such transit agencies. I am kind of confused by this statement about federal reserve, why would I need to show that an acronym does not apply to it to be able to use it? Do you mean to demonstrate that it is abbreviated or something? Tyciol (talk) 14:50, 11 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That last one is a typo - I meant to say did apply to it. I guess the transit thing must be North American english. Either way it's confusing. I wonder if one solution is to make one dab page and redirect both FRT and FRTA to it. Elen of the Roads (talk) 15:38, 11 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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