Talk:Advert (disambiguation)
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[edit] Proposed merge or rename [Done]
Okay... what is the reasoning behind the merge request? Folajimi 22:13, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
- This article really isn't a disambiguation page. Disambiguation pages are for allowing the reader choose among different non-related pages whose only similarity is that they are refered to by a common phrase. Disambiguation pages never have a "Related articles" section for listing related concepts (they do list words that are close in spelling, but far apart in meaning, eg. Bower to Bowers). So, all that's left is a list of advertising for different kinds of products, but that's not really a disambig, it's a list of closely related topics. It might be appropriate to rename the article to something like List of products promoted. But given the short list, it may be preferable to merge it into advertising. At a minimum, {{disambig}} should be removed, and the article renamed to something that doesn't include "disambiguation". --Interiot 22:18, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
- One more vote for the merge. Daniel Olsen 08:43, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
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- I don't care either way, but I can never seem to find our policy on articles that are advertising. Ste4k 09:28, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
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- I agree with the merge! :) Reasons are the same as above. Just park this advert page to advertising page.
- Ste4k, it seems there's not a single page for our advertisement policy. Here may be what you want Wikipedia is not a soapbox. --Wai Wai 11:26, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
- I agree with the merge! :) Reasons are the same as above. Just park this advert page to advertising page.
[edit] deletion dispute
See Talk:Inadvertantly. ∞ΣɛÞ² (τ|c) 11:03, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
- What makes you think the meaning of "inadvertent" is related to advert (disambiguation)? See Wikipedia:Redirect: redirects are not etymological histories.
- (And disambiguation pages are not dictionaries, but you know this.) --Piet Delport 11:36, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
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- Again (as I explained on Talk:Inadvertantly, which has since been deleted), "inadvertently" (and the other advert-related pages) are just redirects to the root word, which has the Wiktionary link. Why should one have to include Wiktionary links every time when the dab page links to it? That's annoying. There are plenty of redirects to root words or more common words--why don't you make a big stink about those? ∞ΣɛÞ² (τ|c) 04:43, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
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- You shouldn't include Wiktionary links everywhere: only where they're warranted.
- Redirects from encyclopedically related words (plurals, -ing, synonyms that don't warrant an article, and so on) are perfectly fine, but not etymological roots: no one is going to say "Inadvertantly" when they mean "Advert".
- Etymology is great, but it's what Wiktionary does, not Wikipedia. --Piet Delport 19:57, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
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- Actually, Wikipedia does etymology--quite extensively, too (complete with even an etymological Wikipedia catgorization system). Plenty of root words are linked to from compound words, too. Until there's an article on inadvertently, I say it should redirect to advert (which shouldn't redirect to advertising since "advert" doesn't just mean "advertising" and you've deleted the extrapolated words from advert (disambiguation). Having fun in your catch 22 yet, Piet? ∞ΣɛÞ² (τ|c) 07:59, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
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- Err, Category:Etymology is about the subject of etymology, plus a small number of articles about encyclopedically significant etymologies: neither bear any resemblance to the redirects you created.
- I don't know what relevance Wikipedia's categorical index is supposed to have to any of this; it's certainly not "etymological". --Piet Delport 10:06, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
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