Talk:General Hospital/Archive3

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Contents 1 The purpose of General Hospital 2 Criticisms 3 Overhaul 4 History Of General Hospital?? 5 Portal 6 Article title

[edit] The purpose of General Hospital

Is GH a For-profit hospital?--Attitude2000 03:05, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

good question...I don't think it has ever been established whether GH is for profit or non profit or whatever Dippit 11:49, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Criticisms

I think this needs a criticisms or controversy section (like the tendency to fire pregnant actresses I don't know anything about General Hospital so I would not make a good writer of that section, but it needs to be added.TrevorLSciAct 22:49, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Crticisms need to be integrated into the general text rather than broken out into a separate subsection per the Wikipedia Manual of Style. Rlquall 23:01, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Overhaul

I have overhauled this article and rewritten the 2005 and 2006 sections to make them shorter since history pages for General Hospital are currently being written. Please tell me what you think :) Dippit 09:08, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History Of General Hospital??

Why did that person delete the History Of General Hospital? It's about past story developments & belongs on the GH page. Bring it back.

I don't know why the links to the pages were deleted, but I put a link to the page. Dippit 02:26, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Portal

Just noticed that the UK soaps (Coronation Street, EastEnders) etc all have portals. Maybe one can be made for General Hospital (and for the other soaps. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dippit (talk • contribs) 07:20, 7 December 2006 (UTC).Dippit 07:20, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

I went ahead and made oneDippit 07:06, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article title

WP:TV-NC would seem to want this article to be named General Hospital (US television series). General Hospital could redirect there, or could lead to General Hospital (disambiguation). Personally I favor the latter, but could go either way. Any objections?

Jordan Brown 08:02, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Such a suggestion may need to go through WP:RM because of the number of pages listed on Special:Whatlinkshere/General Hospital. Remember what the last sentence of the first paragraph of WP:TV-NC says: "If the title of the television program is the most common usage of the phrase, let it be the title of the article." Zzyzx11 (Talk) 08:08, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Also see Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Primary topic. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 08:13, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Sigh, didn't read enough - went straight to the programming section. (Which I did scan for exactly this question.) Although I'm not comfortable with a real-world concept taking second billing to a work of fiction, I'll pragmatically admit that the TV show is probably what the user is looking for.

As I read Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Primary topic, the preferred structure would seem to be

• General Hospital (disambiguation) includes a link to General Hospital (US television series)
• General Hospital (US television series) redirects to General Hospital
• General Hospital is this article
• General Hospital includes a link to General Hospital (disambiguation)

Right?

That would also allow the disambig page to use the simple form

• General Hospital (US television series)

which would be nice.

Perversely, what got me started on this question was that I had difficulty finding this article. I searched for "general hospital", and that ended up (through a redirect at General hospital) at Hospital#Types, with no link to a disambig page. I don't remember exactly how I finally found my way here, but it involved several searches. I changed that redirect - it was just too weird - and so at least that path to confusion is fixed.

Revised proposal: as described above.

Jordan Brown 08:54, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes to get here you have to make sure you type General Hospital with both first letters capitalized and not general hospital or General hospital.Dippit 03:48, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

(reset indent)

It turns out that there was already a redirect at General Hospital (US TV Series), but WP:TV-NAME calls out "series" in lower case, and that doesn't match. I created General Hospital (US TV series), redirecting to General Hospital, and per WP:DAB#Primary topic linked General Hospital (disambiguation) to that redirect. Discuss at Talk:General Hospital (disambiguation) if necessary.

Jordan Brown 22:47, 16 December 2006 (UTC)