- Wal-Mart (disambiguation) (talk||history|logs|links|watch) (XfD|restore)
I had created this page a while back, and it was speedy deleted. I did not know it was previously created and deleted, and I know little about the previous version. The page that I created, I feel, meets Wikipedia:Disambiguation guidelines, and therefore, should be included. In this and this list are at least several titles that have a substantially different meaning from the title "Wal-Mart" itself. Tatterfly (talk) 01:20, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Endorse valid CSD G4 — There is Category:Wal-Mart which l covers everything that a dab would. Since all of these Wal-Mart pages are, in fact, related to Wal-Mart the business, there isn't actually any ambiguity in need of dab. This was all said in AfD#2. — Charles Stewart (talk) 09:07, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Restore and relist — valid CSD G4 redeleting the page in line with a badly flawed AfD#2. A third AfD can better decide what to do about lists, cats, dabs, &c than DRV can. See my comment below. — Charles Stewart (talk) 07:11, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Endorse, nothing unclear about the destination of the main Wal-Mart page or about the result of the AfD. All these pages belong in some way to the WalMart family and as such their links should be inlined into the content of the Wal-Mart page. Usrnme h8er (talk · contribs) 09:48, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- I think there's more to it than that, because of WP:CLN. The underlying point here is to think of ways to group Wal-Mart-related articles to help encyclopaedia users to find them.
A category is not, by itself, adequate as a navigation aid. Oh, sure, experienced Wikipedians who can use categories proficiently don't struggle with it, but we're writing an encyclopaedia for an audience of the general public here. A navbox for moving between the articles, a disambiguation page, and/or a List of Wal-Mart articles (which is presently a redirect, for reasons I find very perplexing) are all options to consider. I think if we decide we can't have a Wal-Mart (disambiguation), we need to consider what provision we should have in its place. Personally I'm not inclined towards the navbox idea. Wal-Mart already has navboxes, and there are too many articles in the category to conveniently group in another navbox.—S Marshall Talk/Cont 11:22, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Very good points. The history of the list is worth looking at. It's certainly a valid CSD G4 given the conclusions of AfD#2, but it looks to me as if we should revisit the AfD since it did not consider constructive alternatives such as the obvious-to-me-now remedy of moving the page back to List of Wal-Mart articles. I'm considering changing my !vote to restore and relist; the reason for another AfD is so that the article isn't CSD G4 anymore. A third AfD, how lovely. — Charles Stewart (talk) 12:26, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Undelete - after looking at some of the other pages starting with the title "Wal-Mart," I found several to be distinct enough from the Wal-Mart corporation itself that they would not belong solely in a List of Wal-Mart articles. The purpose of a disambiguation page is for navigation, and one who was looking more a more obscure meaning of "Walmart" (or similar) would visit a disambiguation page to find it, not "list of Wal-Mart articles." Sebwite (talk) 18:44, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- The article that was G4 deleted did not address the reasons AfD #2 deleted it. Namely the "partial title matches" section here—it was still a list comprising things that were not the same title, they merely included the word. Valid G4. ÷seresin 07:24, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Sure it was, Seresin, but with this very good-faith case, we're trying to be a little more helpful than that. If we can't have this page, then what system shall we use to group these articles for the benefit of end-users?—S Marshall Talk/Cont 07:38, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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- Most missing entries seem to be noted in the main article earlier, but if something's missing, add it. But most of the things in those categories absolutely do not belong in a disambiguation pages, whose purpose is to disambiguate things with very similar names, not list related topics. ÷seresin 08:42, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- As for all the above arguments, It does seem that one in particular, Walmarting (with the redirect Walmart (neologism)), is the similar enough to the common title "Wal-Mart" to be disambiguated, but it would not make sense to put it on a hatnote either. It also does not belong in the see also section, because a see also section is supposed to list articles that one who reads that article may also be interested in reading, and it is not relevant enough to the Wal-Mart corporation to list in a see also section. Other titles include Walmart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach, a tournament that uses the name "Wal-Mart" (derived from and sponsored by the company, but otherwise unrelated, and therefore inappropriate for a see also section), and Wal-Mart camel, formerly an article, but now merged with the title redirecting, and given that name only because of the location where it was found. There is no standard on Wikipedia to substitute disambiguation pages with pages titled List of _____ articles. That would be like replacing Honolulu (disambiguation) with List of Honolulu articles on the basis that everything listed there is somehow tied to the city of Honolulu, and therefore should not be disambiguated. Sebwite (talk) 18:42, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- It's easy to come up with things we can't do, and reasons why we can't do them. It's a little more challenging to come up with things that Wikipedia policy does let us do to group articles with similar themes so users can find them. I'd like to invite you to think of something constructive.—S Marshall Talk/Cont 08:09, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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