Talk:Spring (season)

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spring in the southern hemisphere, in australia and New zealand is actually recognised as starting on the 1st September, not the 21st.

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[edit] U.S. bias and useless content

Some of the content is written from a U.S. POV, and in some it's not even clear whether that's the case (which is far worse).

Hot weather can occur during spring time, even shortly after freezing weather. ... There is also a risk of hypothermia if it is hot and it turns abnormally cold like it often does in March and April.

Where? I'm sure this is not the case even in the U.S. as a whole. Then also, of course you risk hypothermia if you are dressed for hot weather and it suddenly turns cold, but that's hardly news, and certainly not a special feature of spring.

I suggest that people with direct experience of this separate the content between spring in general and spring in the United States, and make a subsection of the latter. If nobody opposes I can make some of the changes myself. The "hot weather" paragraph is pretty much useless, but I wouldn't delete it outright without hearing opinions over here. --Pablo D. Flores (Talk) 15:53, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Move to main article space

This article should be moved to Spring as it's far and away the most common use of the term, similar to how Summer, Autumn and Winter all have the main article name instead of (season). DreamGuy 23:01, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

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  • Support. This is the most common meaning of the word. Georgia guy 23:10, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Oppose. Any evidence for the "most common meaning"? (Please no Google results -- I'll get every college course catalogue in the English-speaking world). If it is the most common, its a plurality not a majority. The other two major meanings are very common and important ones that do not derive from the season (all three derive from the verb). The other seasons don't have the "(season)" tag because they don't have significant other meanings. LuiKhuntek 08:29, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Oppose. To me spring (a coiled object) and Spring (the season) are neck-and-neck, while the other meanings for this name are not far behind. Marco79 17:25, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Oppose. This usage of spring is probably the most common, but not overwhelmingly so. Also, notice of this move request should have been placed on Talk:Spring as well, since that page would have to be moved as well. — Knowledge Seeker দ 06:41, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion

I've reverted the Spring to Spring (disambiguation) move for two reasons:

  1. Now that this discussion is opened it should be allowed to finish with the article structure in its original form
  2. There should've been a disambig notice at the top of this article as it broke various incoming links and made finding the other articles difficult

This is not a vote on the move itself. violet/riga (t) 23:25, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

There was no consensus to move. the wub "?!" 23:07, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguation

For a while, Spring redirected to Spring (season) because someone moved the disambiguation page that was at Spring to Spring (disambiguation). However, you are not supposed to redirect the undisambiguated name (Spring) to a disambiguated name (Spring (season)). Instead, the article that is being redirected to (Spring (season) in this case) should either be moved to the undisambiguated name (Spring), or the undisambiguated name should be a disambiguation page. I was not about to move this article without discussion, especially since a requested move (Spring (season) to Spring) failed in December 2005, so I reverted the move of the disambiguation page, which is now at Spring. Hopefully, you are able to follow that.

If you want, you can put a link to the disambiguation page at the top of this article, but I believe it is unnecessary (and is against the guideline, last time I checked). No one is going to search for "Spring (season)" (without or without parentheses) and be looking for anything else except this article. Also, no one is going to link to "Spring (season)" and mean something else. If someone searches for "Spring", they'll go to the disambiguation page and if someone follows a link of "Spring" they will go to the disambiguation page. Therefore, a disambiguation notice is unnecessary. -- Kjkolb 13:42, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

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