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It looks like until January 2007, RBC was a redirect to Royal Bank of Canada, (which is, by far, the most common use of the term) and I can't find any discussion as to why the redirect was abandoned on any of the related talk pages. I'm restoring the redirect, the disambiguation, and adding a redirect dabhat to the financial institution's article. user:j (aka justen) 23:16, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
The following was copied from User talk:Temporaluser.
Hi, Temporaluser. While "RBC" can refer to "red blood cell," "Royal Bank of Canada" is the vastly more common usage. (For example, I don't see a single instance of "red blood cell" in the top fifty search results on Google for the initialism.) The reason we have the {{other}} dabhat is specifically for instances like this. See, for example, NBC, which has dozens of other users, some quite common. Please reconsider your reverting to the dab. user:j (aka justen) 23:49, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
(←) I think you missed my point. Red blood cell may be vastly more popular an article, but that doesn't mean it is the more common usage of the initialism RBC in every day use. I'd be happy to take a look at a screenshot of your results, however mine are depersonalized, and seven of the top ten results are for the Royal Bank of Canada (the others being for the missionary organization at number five, and an industrial business and a consulting firm as the bottom two). Google does recommend "red blood cell" as a potential search term below the results, as number seven out of eight other potential terms (all the rest referring to the bank or various of its entities).
Lastly, you mention the term "neutral." Neutrality isn't an issue when it comes to disambiguation pages. There remains a dabhat at Royal Bank of Canada and a complete disambiguation page (the plurality of which are bank-related entities). I haven't seemed to be able to persuade you with the fact that, even on your search results, I am sure the bank-related usage makes up the majority of "RBC" hits. The preferred solution on Wikipedia when one usage is more common than another is a redirect, combined with a dabhat and a dab page. That's what was set up, and I'm going to go ahead and restore the redirect. user:j (aka justen) 06:50, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
The preceding was copied from User talk:Temporaluser.
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It looks like until January 2007, RBC was a redirect to Royal Bank of Canada, (which is, by far, the most common use of the term) and I can't find any discussion as to why the redirect was abandoned on any of the related talk pages. I'm restoring the redirect, the disambiguation, and adding a redirect dabhat to the financial institution's article. user:j (aka justen) 23:16, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
The following was copied from User talk:Temporaluser.
Hi, Temporaluser. While "RBC" can refer to "red blood cell," "Royal Bank of Canada" is the vastly more common usage. (For example, I don't see a single instance of "red blood cell" in the top fifty search results on Google for the initialism.) The reason we have the {{other}} dabhat is specifically for instances like this. See, for example, NBC, which has dozens of other users, some quite common. Please reconsider your reverting to the dab. user:j (aka justen) 23:49, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
(←) I think you missed my point. Red blood cell may be vastly more popular an article, but that doesn't mean it is the more common usage of the initialism RBC in every day use. I'd be happy to take a look at a screenshot of your results, however mine are depersonalized, and seven of the top ten results are for the Royal Bank of Canada (the others being for the missionary organization at number five, and an industrial business and a consulting firm as the bottom two). Google does recommend "red blood cell" as a potential search term below the results, as number seven out of eight other potential terms (all the rest referring to the bank or various of its entities).
Lastly, you mention the term "neutral." Neutrality isn't an issue when it comes to disambiguation pages. There remains a dabhat at Royal Bank of Canada and a complete disambiguation page (the plurality of which are bank-related entities). I haven't seemed to be able to persuade you with the fact that, even on your search results, I am sure the bank-related usage makes up the majority of "RBC" hits. The preferred solution on Wikipedia when one usage is more common than another is a redirect, combined with a dabhat and a dab page. That's what was set up, and I'm going to go ahead and restore the redirect. user:j (aka justen) 06:50, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
The preceding was copied from User talk:Temporaluser.