Talk:YPG (disambiguation)/Archive 1

The primary topic that the term “YPG” refers to is People's Protection Units. Per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, the term "YPG" should lead to that article (not to a disambiguation page).

520 pages link to People's Protection Units.[1]
People's Protection Units has been viewed 59,920 times in the last 90 days.[2]

Compare with the statistics for the three other articles listed:

13 pages link to Yellow Pages Group.[3]
Yellow Pages Group has been viewed 1,632 times in the last 90 days.[4]

21 pages link to Portage la Prairie Southport Airport.[5]
Portage la Prairie Southport Airport has been viewed 703 times in the last 90 days.[6]

304 pages link to Phola language.[7]
Phola language has been viewed 477 times in the last 90 days.[8]

--Dervorguilla (talk) 05:47, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

User:Dervorguilla, I agree with redirecting the YPG page but you should have added a hat note to People's Protection Units. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 18:44, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

Deletion of last three entries

Removing the "Yellow Pages Group", "Portage la Prairie Southport Airport", and "Phola language" entries per Help:Disambiguation.

Disambiguation pages ... are used [to] resolve conflicts in article titles that [could] occur when a single term ... [is] likely to be the natural title for more than one article. In other words, disambiguations [are used when] different articles ... could, in principle, have the same title.

"YPG" isn't a natural title for an article about Yellow Pages Group (even in principle). Nor is it a natural title for an article about Portage la Prairie Southport Airport or the Phola language.

This edit is also supported by WP:DABABBREV:

We are ... not making yet another dictionary of abbreviations... In particular, don't include ... things simply because of their initials, unless those initials have been widely used. John Fitzgerald Kennedy is widely known as JFK ... so the initials are appropriately disambiguated.

Yellow Pages Group isn't widely known as "YPG". Ditto Southport and Phola. --Dervorguilla (talk) 15:05, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

Move, merge, or make dual revisions?

1. The YPG article can be boldly edited so that it redirects to People's Protection Units (with hatnote), rather than disambiguates.

2. This article can be boldly edited so that it disambiguates rather than redirects.

The "underlying conceptual or factual material" can be copied from the YPG article if the "words used to express [the] idea or convey [the] information" are original with the new author. CMOS, ¶ 4.5 ("Original Expression"). Is this correct?

If not, can the YPG article's page history be moved or merged? Or perhaps just linked from this Talk page? --Dervorguilla (talk) 05:23, 17 December 2015 (UTC)