On 21/05/07, Zoney zoney.ie@gmail.com wrote:
On 20/05/07, Ken Arromdee arromdee@rahul.net wrote:
On Sat, 19 May 2007, David Gerard wrote:
Which is why [[Georgia]] is a disambig, not the country - because of a straw poll where, for the most part, Americans voted "disambig" and non-Americans voted "country".
Georgia is a disambig and not a country because the state is larger than the country and many more people looking for information about Georgia want the state than want the country.
Most inward links to [[Cork]] were for the city in Ireland, yet people overruled the status quo and moved the city to a separate article having [[Cork]] as disambig (the city article had a disambig header).
Inbound links is a less relevant measure here, With Georgia/Georgia you're at least comparing like for like - people will add a wikilink most times they use a place, so you'd expect wikilink numbers to be a rough proxy for usage.
[That said, a caveat - [[Georgia (country)]] is a more obvious disambig than [[Georgia (U.S. state)]] - it could be (state) or (US) or (USA) or (U.S.A.) or... etc - so you'd expect a slightly higher proportion of links relating to the latter to just go to the disambig and hope for the best. Probably lost in the noise, though]
However, with Cork, you're comparing at least three different things (place, object, material), and whilst we invariably link to places when mentioned in the text, we link to common objects far less...