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Keep with trimming. I don't see a primary topic for this adjective between the meanings related to the Earth's Equator, the celestial Equator, the chemical bond orientation, and the
equatorial region (i.e. the tropics). The last meaning itself has a dab entry that gets six times more clicks than the entry for the Earth's Equator
[1]. –
Uanfala (
talk)
14:13, 13 November 2022 (UTC)reply
delete There's actually nothing here which isn't a PTM. Redirecting to equator just interferes with searching, particularly since a number of the entries are things that are only distantly related to the actual equator.
Mangoe (
talk)
17:13, 13 November 2022 (UTC)reply
As is common in dab pages for adjectives, all of the entries do indeed look like
WP:PTMs, because the linked articles will typically have titles of the format adjective + noun. Some of the ones here (like
Equatorial Guinea) undoubtedly are PTMs. But not all of them are. When the term "equatorial" is used to characterise a climate ("The climate of Papua is equatorial") or to describe an orbital plane ("A geostationary orbit is equatorial"), then what you have is not partial title matches, but different encyclopedically relevant uses of an ambiguous term. –
Uanfala (
talk)
17:33, 13 November 2022 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
Keep with trimming. I don't see a primary topic for this adjective between the meanings related to the Earth's Equator, the celestial Equator, the chemical bond orientation, and the
equatorial region (i.e. the tropics). The last meaning itself has a dab entry that gets six times more clicks than the entry for the Earth's Equator
[1]. –
Uanfala (
talk)
14:13, 13 November 2022 (UTC)reply
delete There's actually nothing here which isn't a PTM. Redirecting to equator just interferes with searching, particularly since a number of the entries are things that are only distantly related to the actual equator.
Mangoe (
talk)
17:13, 13 November 2022 (UTC)reply
As is common in dab pages for adjectives, all of the entries do indeed look like
WP:PTMs, because the linked articles will typically have titles of the format adjective + noun. Some of the ones here (like
Equatorial Guinea) undoubtedly are PTMs. But not all of them are. When the term "equatorial" is used to characterise a climate ("The climate of Papua is equatorial") or to describe an orbital plane ("A geostationary orbit is equatorial"), then what you have is not partial title matches, but different encyclopedically relevant uses of an ambiguous term. –
Uanfala (
talk)
17:33, 13 November 2022 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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