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Oppose – Why do you assert that blindness is clearly primary? A person looking for blindness would more likely search for the noun; there are several noun meanings of blind that they might be looking for if they come here. There's no reason to assume or force a primary here.
Dicklyon (
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05:23, 2 January 2012 (UTC)reply
Mild oppose. I see the point here, and am tempted to agree, but in this case I think there are too many alternative uses to assert that
blindness is primary, at least without further evidence.
PowersT01:51, 3 January 2012 (UTC)reply
Oppose. The present arrangement seems most helpful to readers. There are too many meanings that might be sought. NoeticaTea?06:11, 8 January 2012 (UTC)reply
Support. The primary usage should be about the inability to see, which should probably redirect to
blindness. That article would then have a "redirects here" capnote with a link to the dabpage. Blindness is obviously the primary menaing of blind. The use of the word for a window covering is surely derived from that. All the other uses are certainly derivative.
Peterkingiron (
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01:41, 10 January 2012 (UTC)reply
But there is a reasonable expectation, encouraged by
WP:TITLE, that titles will be nouns or noun phrases:
"Use nouns: Nouns and noun phrases are normally preferred over titles using other parts of speech; such a title can be the subject of the first sentence."
Blind is a noun when it concerns window coverings, etc. But not when it concerns blindness.
On top of that, the assertion of "obvious" "primary usage" is unsupported by evidence. It is not genuinely helpful here, I suggest. It very often is not.
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Oppose – Why do you assert that blindness is clearly primary? A person looking for blindness would more likely search for the noun; there are several noun meanings of blind that they might be looking for if they come here. There's no reason to assume or force a primary here.
Dicklyon (
talk)
05:23, 2 January 2012 (UTC)reply
Mild oppose. I see the point here, and am tempted to agree, but in this case I think there are too many alternative uses to assert that
blindness is primary, at least without further evidence.
PowersT01:51, 3 January 2012 (UTC)reply
Oppose. The present arrangement seems most helpful to readers. There are too many meanings that might be sought. NoeticaTea?06:11, 8 January 2012 (UTC)reply
Support. The primary usage should be about the inability to see, which should probably redirect to
blindness. That article would then have a "redirects here" capnote with a link to the dabpage. Blindness is obviously the primary menaing of blind. The use of the word for a window covering is surely derived from that. All the other uses are certainly derivative.
Peterkingiron (
talk)
01:41, 10 January 2012 (UTC)reply
But there is a reasonable expectation, encouraged by
WP:TITLE, that titles will be nouns or noun phrases:
"Use nouns: Nouns and noun phrases are normally preferred over titles using other parts of speech; such a title can be the subject of the first sentence."
Blind is a noun when it concerns window coverings, etc. But not when it concerns blindness.
On top of that, the assertion of "obvious" "primary usage" is unsupported by evidence. It is not genuinely helpful here, I suggest. It very often is not.
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 talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.