Talk:Lens

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The result of the debate was don't move. —Nightstallion (?) 10:19, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move

Lens → Lens (disambiguation) and Lens (optics) → Lens: I realize that there are many major entries on Lens. But most of them relate to or derive from the optical meaning, and the optics use is still the primary use. Aside from the three places and the person, Laser Engineered Net Shaping and Lens (genus) are the only ones not falling under Lens (optics). I think it makes more sense to have the optical sense at Lens.----

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• Support. Commonest usage by far, below are the approximate current link counts to each page. Ewlyahoocom 06:29, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

• Oppose. Your link counts are not correct, there are more than a hundred links to RC Lens, where Racing Club de Lens redirects to, and that is the main meaning pf Lens in the context of sports. Kusma (討論) 19:49, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
  • I get 195 links to RC Lens, including the 10 to Racing Club de Lens, which puts RC Lens above Photographic lens on the list. This fits my experience when I disambiguated the links to here weeks ago: there were more links that needed to go to Lens (optics) than anywhere else, but there were a lot of links that should have gone to Photographic lens, RC Lens and Lens, Pas-de-Calais (mostly references to football games played in the stadium there, against RC Lens.)--Srleffler 23:44, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
    • Oops, sorry about that -- my little homebrew tool doesn't handle redirects. (I'll also update the entry on the disambiguation page.) Ewlyahoocom 05:58, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose. There are too many other meanings for lens (optics) to take the main name. Fresheneesz 22:09, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose. Too many meanings to guess which one is most common. The most common use may be for camera lens. Using the data below, this change would redirect to the wrong article most of the time. Vegaswikian 23:42, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

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Current link counts to each page (unadjusted for "piped" links so e.g. every link to "point of view" is counted not just those that display the text "lens").

297 Lens (optics)
195 RC Lens (redirect from Racing Club de Lens)
182 Photographic lens
131 Sunglasses
113 point of view
109 Lens (anatomy)
103 Gravitational lens
82  Lens, Pas-de-Calais
58  Lensman
16  Lens (geometry)
--  Racing Club de Lens [See RC Lens, above.]
6   Lens, Belgium
4   Lens (genus)
4   Laser Engineered Net Shaping
4   Electrostatic lens
3   Lens, Valais
1   Louis Lens

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ewlyahoocom. RC Lens adjusted by Srleffler 23:44, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Actually, lens (genus) is related too: lens (optics) and lens (geometry) both get their name from the similarity of their shape to that of a lentil, a seed of a plant of genus lens. I don't have a problem with the renaming, though, as long as it's done right. I disambiguated most of the links to Lens weeks ago, but there will probably be new ones. Someone needs to go through those carefully and change each to the appropriate page, being careful to distinguish particularly between lens (optics) and photographic lens.--Srleffler 12:14, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

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