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– BP links directly to the article on British Petroleum, but BP is also used in science - Geology, Evolution, .. - to indicate "
Before Present"; so when someone inserts a BP link, shouldn't it be triggered that the author makes a choice to which BP ? Thy
SvenAERTS (
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14:22, 11 January 2019 (UTC)reply
Oppose. BP as the company name is the most common use of BP. And there is no company named British Petroleum already more than 20 years.
Beagel (
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17:02, 11 January 2019 (UTC)reply
WP:PTOPIC says that it has to be "more likely than all the other topics combined". That pageviews link only compares
BP (41,012) against
Before Present (596). That's enough to raise one's
blood pressure (55,885) or, as
Baden-Powell (15,183) might say, "Go at it!": but where to go? The
Solomon Islands (32,609) or
Bletchley Park (15,555)?
And in particular do you think people looking for
Bletchley Park will type "BP"? I can't imagine myself doing so, although it may have been more commonly known by that when it was first publicized. My oppose is still weak since Google also does give some results for blood pressure but I don't think I've ever heard if it being referred to like that. Also if this is done the company will need to be moved, maybe
BP p.l.c. or
BP (company) (I have changed this to a multi-move). Crouch, Swale (
talk)
21:39, 11 January 2019 (UTC)reply
Support, but move the article to
BP (company) - "BP p.l.c." is a very unnatural way to title an article. I have an extremely high threshold to allow any topic to be primary when it comes to two- and three-letter acronyms, because I feel we serve readers and editors much more by leaving disambiguation pages at those. The BP (oil company) article is not "more likely than all the other topics combined" to be
WP:PRIMARY over so many other uses for the usage or abbreviation "BP". --
Netoholic@23:25, 11 January 2019 (UTC)reply
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– BP links directly to the article on British Petroleum, but BP is also used in science - Geology, Evolution, .. - to indicate "
Before Present"; so when someone inserts a BP link, shouldn't it be triggered that the author makes a choice to which BP ? Thy
SvenAERTS (
talk)
14:22, 11 January 2019 (UTC)reply
Oppose. BP as the company name is the most common use of BP. And there is no company named British Petroleum already more than 20 years.
Beagel (
talk)
17:02, 11 January 2019 (UTC)reply
WP:PTOPIC says that it has to be "more likely than all the other topics combined". That pageviews link only compares
BP (41,012) against
Before Present (596). That's enough to raise one's
blood pressure (55,885) or, as
Baden-Powell (15,183) might say, "Go at it!": but where to go? The
Solomon Islands (32,609) or
Bletchley Park (15,555)?
And in particular do you think people looking for
Bletchley Park will type "BP"? I can't imagine myself doing so, although it may have been more commonly known by that when it was first publicized. My oppose is still weak since Google also does give some results for blood pressure but I don't think I've ever heard if it being referred to like that. Also if this is done the company will need to be moved, maybe
BP p.l.c. or
BP (company) (I have changed this to a multi-move). Crouch, Swale (
talk)
21:39, 11 January 2019 (UTC)reply
Support, but move the article to
BP (company) - "BP p.l.c." is a very unnatural way to title an article. I have an extremely high threshold to allow any topic to be primary when it comes to two- and three-letter acronyms, because I feel we serve readers and editors much more by leaving disambiguation pages at those. The BP (oil company) article is not "more likely than all the other topics combined" to be
WP:PRIMARY over so many other uses for the usage or abbreviation "BP". --
Netoholic@23:25, 11 January 2019 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a
requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this
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