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I have to say I really don't understand your [LlyII's] position on this redirect. Louisville Metro = Louisville, Kentucky. You are basically redirecting people to a small article that they don't intend to go to when searching. As for what you're saying about government in the edit summary, there is no Jefferson County government. I see no basis for this redirect that corresponds to the current reality.
Stevie is the man!Talk •
Work00:46, 20 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Now, I'm not saying everyone is sensible. Obviously not everyone is. But if people intend to link to Louisville, they (generally speaking) link to [[Louisville]]. (Then, when they see the problem with that, they link to [[Louisville, Kentucky]]...) If they're linking to
Louisville Metro, they are specifically looking for the greater Louisville area or the larger municipal government and not the main article. If the article at Jefferson County doesn't meet your high standards, you can always expand or improve it. But at least the first few links I was looking at were explicitly not looking for
Louisville generally but for (admittedly a better treatment of) the content at Jefferson County. —
LlywelynII01:28, 20 August 2014 (UTC)reply
I do understand your concern, though. Two solutions would be:
1) Not to revert to [[Louisville, Kentucky]], but to change the redirect to [[Louisville, Kentucky#Government and politics]], and to include [[Jefferson County...
Louisville Metro is not a synonym for
Government of Louisville, Kentucky, which is a subarticle page for
Louisville, Kentucky which goes into depth about the governmental function of Louisville, Kentucky (Louisville Metro). It is today a synonym for Louisville, Kentucky, whether people are meaning to go there are not. A dab page would be moderately agreeable, if anyone honestly thinks there would be any confusion. But moving
Government of Louisville, Kentucky to "Louisville Metro" is a warping of that article's subarticle/in-depth purpose for the main Louisville, Kentucky article.
Stevie is the man!Talk •
Work07:01, 20 August 2014 (UTC)reply
On the talk page for
WP:Lou, you stated "All incoming links to Louisville Metro I've looked at are looking for the governmental entity." I just wanted to note that this will not always necessarily be the case, nor does it deal with search. Also, the bolded term in
Government of Louisville, Kentucky was incorrect until the fix I just made this morning -- that may have led linkers astray.
Stevie is the man!Talk •
Work09:21, 20 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Agreeing with Stevie here, "Louisville Metro" is a proper name of a specific place, and that place is
Louisville, Kentucky. I think it is a reasonably unambiguous term, at least in regard to what is the
WP:PRIMARYTOPIC meaning of the term. To refer explicitly to the general metropolitan area, one would use "Louisville metropolitan area" rather than "Louisville Metro" (with capitalization). To refer to the government or politics of the place, one should use a phrase that explicitly refers to government or politics. If there are Wikipedia internal cross-references that don't obey that convention, they should be changed, and they probably only exist because of the vagaries of Wikipedia editing history. —
BarrelProof (
talk)
17:43, 5 September 2014 (UTC)reply
This redirect is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the
United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions.
I have to say I really don't understand your [LlyII's] position on this redirect. Louisville Metro = Louisville, Kentucky. You are basically redirecting people to a small article that they don't intend to go to when searching. As for what you're saying about government in the edit summary, there is no Jefferson County government. I see no basis for this redirect that corresponds to the current reality.
Stevie is the man!Talk •
Work00:46, 20 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Now, I'm not saying everyone is sensible. Obviously not everyone is. But if people intend to link to Louisville, they (generally speaking) link to [[Louisville]]. (Then, when they see the problem with that, they link to [[Louisville, Kentucky]]...) If they're linking to
Louisville Metro, they are specifically looking for the greater Louisville area or the larger municipal government and not the main article. If the article at Jefferson County doesn't meet your high standards, you can always expand or improve it. But at least the first few links I was looking at were explicitly not looking for
Louisville generally but for (admittedly a better treatment of) the content at Jefferson County. —
LlywelynII01:28, 20 August 2014 (UTC)reply
I do understand your concern, though. Two solutions would be:
1) Not to revert to [[Louisville, Kentucky]], but to change the redirect to [[Louisville, Kentucky#Government and politics]], and to include [[Jefferson County...
Louisville Metro is not a synonym for
Government of Louisville, Kentucky, which is a subarticle page for
Louisville, Kentucky which goes into depth about the governmental function of Louisville, Kentucky (Louisville Metro). It is today a synonym for Louisville, Kentucky, whether people are meaning to go there are not. A dab page would be moderately agreeable, if anyone honestly thinks there would be any confusion. But moving
Government of Louisville, Kentucky to "Louisville Metro" is a warping of that article's subarticle/in-depth purpose for the main Louisville, Kentucky article.
Stevie is the man!Talk •
Work07:01, 20 August 2014 (UTC)reply
On the talk page for
WP:Lou, you stated "All incoming links to Louisville Metro I've looked at are looking for the governmental entity." I just wanted to note that this will not always necessarily be the case, nor does it deal with search. Also, the bolded term in
Government of Louisville, Kentucky was incorrect until the fix I just made this morning -- that may have led linkers astray.
Stevie is the man!Talk •
Work09:21, 20 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Agreeing with Stevie here, "Louisville Metro" is a proper name of a specific place, and that place is
Louisville, Kentucky. I think it is a reasonably unambiguous term, at least in regard to what is the
WP:PRIMARYTOPIC meaning of the term. To refer explicitly to the general metropolitan area, one would use "Louisville metropolitan area" rather than "Louisville Metro" (with capitalization). To refer to the government or politics of the place, one should use a phrase that explicitly refers to government or politics. If there are Wikipedia internal cross-references that don't obey that convention, they should be changed, and they probably only exist because of the vagaries of Wikipedia editing history. —
BarrelProof (
talk)
17:43, 5 September 2014 (UTC)reply