Talk:Adema

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As Mali's dominant political party is named A.D.E.M.A. also (and is often written ADEMA), I'd like to move this article to Adema (band) with a redirect notice at the top of the Malian article. Or perhaps a disambig page would do for both, though my first instinct is to say that a ruling political party is more encyclopedically-notable. Any thoughts? I'll probably do this next weekend some time. --Dvyost 17:22, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

For now I'm adding a small disambig at the top. Best, --Dvyost 17:24, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

As you said yourself, it's called A.D.E.M.A.. And, searching Google it's obvious to see which gets more responses when you search for "Adema" or "ADEMA". And all the articles here are "encyclopedically-notable", I don't see how one is more so than another. Enfestid 23:34, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

My apologies; I phrased that badly and didn't mean to start an argument. Unfortunately this isn't really a case where Google is going to be the most reliable test, as Mali is a French- and Bambara-speaking nation that is largely without internet access; hence Mali-related articles tend to come in at a lower ranking by default because of the paucity of hits. Despite their lower Google ranking, ADEMA does control a country of 11 million people, and has for nearly fifteen years.

My understanding is that ADEMA actually is the most common abbreviation for the first version of this party (as you can see in the English and French articles on the subject). I wrote it with periods for the sake of clarity, but typically ended up confusing the subject more =). Unfortunately I don't think the Wikipedia software will allow an article "ADEMA" and an article "Adema" to coexist. How would you feel about splitting the difference by moving this article to Adema (band) and creating a disambig page linking to both (picking random examples, similar to Nono or Salif Keïta)?

Thanks for responding so fast! Best, --Dvyost 02:03, 16 August 2005 (UTC)