2008/11/26 Michael Everson everson@evertype.com:
The name "Ireland" is ambiguous. People looking for it might be looking for the state. Most probably are. Or people looking for it might be looking for the island. Since the Ireland should point to the disambiguation page, the correct thing to do is to move that content to Ireland (island) as proposed here.
OK. Do we have any numbers on that? Can we back up that "probably"?
(I don't know if we do or can. We have accurate hit counts for pages, but not for navigation between pages that I know of.)
Personally if I went to "Ireland" I'd expect to see the page for the country, but I know that's just me.
One sentence from Una Smith: "An ambiguous title such as Ireland should be a disambiguation page, because it is Ireland that will accumulate incoming links needing disambiguation and the task of disambiguating them is made vastly more difficult if Ireland also has "correct" incoming links that refer to one topic by that name."
What are the actual numbers on incoming links to [[Ireland]]?
Apart from that I have sent some other answers trying to be neutral, but my posts are being held for moderation.
I just let them through and you're off mod. Sorry for the inconvenience :-)
- d.