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Support. I think brightness (in the sense of intensity of visible light) is the primary topic. "Bright" meaning "intelligent" is not exactly unusual, but it's sort of a metaphor, and I don't think it would occur to too many people either to wikilink "bright" in that meaning, or to enter it in the search box with that meaning. --
Trovatore (
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01:17, 15 September 2015 (UTC)reply
Oppose per
WP:NOTDICT and
WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. With two competing dictionary definitions and a number of legitimate encyclopedic topics listed on
the diambiguation page, there is no primary topic. There is no evidence presented in the nomination that readers searching an encyclopedia for "bright" are looking for an article on "brightness". —
AjaxSmack02:48, 15 September 2015 (UTC)reply
Comment. I think NOTDICT is a red herring here. No one is proposing to make the entry a dictionary definition. It's just a question of whether the links and searches for the "brightness" sense predominate over the others combined. --
Trovatore (
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03:12, 15 September 2015 (UTC)reply
Well, if there is evidence for that, please present it. But since
Wikipedia is not a dictionary, we should not assume that readers are seeking a dictionary definition and that "brightness" is "highly likely—much more likely than any other topic, and more likely than all the other topics combined—to be the topic sought when a reader searches for" "bright". —
AjaxSmack04:14, 15 September 2015 (UTC)reply
Oppose: readers are unlikely to search for an adjective as such in an encyclopedia (as opposed to a dictionary), so the surname, place names, etc are more likely to be what they need.
PamD10:18, 15 September 2015 (UTC)reply
Perhaps I should illuminate my previous comment ;) I'm basing this on my perception that the current article on brightness is not generic enough - it describes a specific concept in photometry/colorimetry. A
broad concept article that would explain how the English language treats brightness as a series of concepts based but not limited to visual brightness would work here, too. I'm pretty sure many such surnames were also derived from this series of concepts and not that one specifically. --
Joy [shallot] (
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12:09, 16 September 2015 (UTC)reply
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Support. I think brightness (in the sense of intensity of visible light) is the primary topic. "Bright" meaning "intelligent" is not exactly unusual, but it's sort of a metaphor, and I don't think it would occur to too many people either to wikilink "bright" in that meaning, or to enter it in the search box with that meaning. --
Trovatore (
talk)
01:17, 15 September 2015 (UTC)reply
Oppose per
WP:NOTDICT and
WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. With two competing dictionary definitions and a number of legitimate encyclopedic topics listed on
the diambiguation page, there is no primary topic. There is no evidence presented in the nomination that readers searching an encyclopedia for "bright" are looking for an article on "brightness". —
AjaxSmack02:48, 15 September 2015 (UTC)reply
Comment. I think NOTDICT is a red herring here. No one is proposing to make the entry a dictionary definition. It's just a question of whether the links and searches for the "brightness" sense predominate over the others combined. --
Trovatore (
talk)
03:12, 15 September 2015 (UTC)reply
Well, if there is evidence for that, please present it. But since
Wikipedia is not a dictionary, we should not assume that readers are seeking a dictionary definition and that "brightness" is "highly likely—much more likely than any other topic, and more likely than all the other topics combined—to be the topic sought when a reader searches for" "bright". —
AjaxSmack04:14, 15 September 2015 (UTC)reply
Oppose: readers are unlikely to search for an adjective as such in an encyclopedia (as opposed to a dictionary), so the surname, place names, etc are more likely to be what they need.
PamD10:18, 15 September 2015 (UTC)reply
Perhaps I should illuminate my previous comment ;) I'm basing this on my perception that the current article on brightness is not generic enough - it describes a specific concept in photometry/colorimetry. A
broad concept article that would explain how the English language treats brightness as a series of concepts based but not limited to visual brightness would work here, too. I'm pretty sure many such surnames were also derived from this series of concepts and not that one specifically. --
Joy [shallot] (
talk)
12:09, 16 September 2015 (UTC)reply
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