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This might have made more sense at
Requested Moves than AfD. However, I agree with the nominator. Pageviews are trending extremely high (nearly 200,000 on May 28!) and it's incredibly clear that we have a
WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, as the article now at
George Floyd (American football) was in the single digits on pageviews in days prior to this incident. This makes sense to do without delay. Support nominator's proposal.
Raymie (
t •
c)
06:25, 31 May 2020 (UTC)reply
I was thinking of
WP:RM at first, but (maybe because I’m tired) I couldn’t and still can’t wrap my head around how it would work through that process. Because I don’t want to move “Death of George Floyd” to “George Floyd” and I definitely didn’t want to move the content of the disambiguation page to the “Death of George Floyd” page. To me this was the easiest method, logistically speaking.
Bait30 Talk 2 me pls?07:05, 31 May 2020 (UTC)reply
@
WWGB: Could you explain? It looks like
WP:ONEOTHER says If there are only two topics to which a given title might refer, and one is the primary topic, then a disambiguation page is not needed—it is sufficient to use a hatnote on the primary topic article, pointing to the other article.. That appears to be what we are voting on here. We're setting up
George Floyd to point to the primary topic, and presumably we would include a link to the secondary topic within the primary topic article. --
Elephanthunter (
talk)
06:51, 31 May 2020 (UTC)reply
@
Bait30: One option would have been to just
boldly changing this to a redirect; no real need to AfD delete its history. Still, if you weren't sure, then a discussion can't hurt.—
Bagumba (
talk)
08:05, 31 May 2020 (UTC)reply
Strong Support Redirect - Seems clear that the George Floyd in
Death of George Floyd is more widely known than the football player, and this is an important topic that people need access to without dealing with disambiguation pages. Google Trends shows interest in George Floyd the football player for the last 5 years was basically non-existent compared with the man recently died. --
Elephanthunter (
talk)
06:46, 31 May 2020 (UTC)reply
Furthermore, I feel like this is a
WP:SNOW and
WP:DEADLINENOW situation. The other guy is relatively unknown with insignificant stats. But for this death, there is deployed military and active protests across the United States. People simply aren't looking for the football player. There is no reason bureaucracy should get in the way here. --
Elephanthunter (
talk)
14:38, 31 May 2020 (UTC)reply
Redirect to
Death of George Floyd and add hatnote there to point to the sportsman; add appropriate items (those partial matches mentioned above) to the "See also" of that target page. Clear primary topic.
PamD10:07, 31 May 2020 (UTC)reply
@
PamD:WP:PARTIAL only applies to "see also" of a dab page, not regular pages. If the partial matches were deemed meaningful, we would not want to force a reader to scroll all the way down to the "see also" of a non-dab (nor is it customary so that they would know to look there). Given
the number of PTMs of "George Floyd", they would not fit in a hatnote either.—
Bagumba (
talk)
11:39, 31 May 2020 (UTC)reply
@
Cryptic: Yeah, the article needs to be a redirect for now. This is a major issue with international attention. The football player is barely notable enough to warrant an article. --
Elephanthunter (
talk)
12:39, 31 May 2020 (UTC)reply
Redirect per Coffeeandcrumbs. Given that the death of George Floyd is the primary topic, I agree that a hatnote to the american football player should be done instead.
OcelotCreeper (
talk)
15:23, 31 May 2020 (UTC)reply
Snow immediate redirect: It's embarrassing for Wikipedia to have an unnecessary disambig page in the middle of an obviously notable crisis. --
Toughpigs (
talk)
17:39, 31 May 2020 (UTC)reply
Also, as an added Comment, I wouldn't call this the right venue to propose a redirection in the nomination. The D in AfD is for Deletion, not Discussion. I would have voted Procedural close, but a lot of people have already put their two cents in. --
letcreate123 (
talk)
18:28, 31 May 2020 (UTC)reply
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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.
This might have made more sense at
Requested Moves than AfD. However, I agree with the nominator. Pageviews are trending extremely high (nearly 200,000 on May 28!) and it's incredibly clear that we have a
WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, as the article now at
George Floyd (American football) was in the single digits on pageviews in days prior to this incident. This makes sense to do without delay. Support nominator's proposal.
Raymie (
t •
c)
06:25, 31 May 2020 (UTC)reply
I was thinking of
WP:RM at first, but (maybe because I’m tired) I couldn’t and still can’t wrap my head around how it would work through that process. Because I don’t want to move “Death of George Floyd” to “George Floyd” and I definitely didn’t want to move the content of the disambiguation page to the “Death of George Floyd” page. To me this was the easiest method, logistically speaking.
Bait30 Talk 2 me pls?07:05, 31 May 2020 (UTC)reply
@
WWGB: Could you explain? It looks like
WP:ONEOTHER says If there are only two topics to which a given title might refer, and one is the primary topic, then a disambiguation page is not needed—it is sufficient to use a hatnote on the primary topic article, pointing to the other article.. That appears to be what we are voting on here. We're setting up
George Floyd to point to the primary topic, and presumably we would include a link to the secondary topic within the primary topic article. --
Elephanthunter (
talk)
06:51, 31 May 2020 (UTC)reply
@
Bait30: One option would have been to just
boldly changing this to a redirect; no real need to AfD delete its history. Still, if you weren't sure, then a discussion can't hurt.—
Bagumba (
talk)
08:05, 31 May 2020 (UTC)reply
Strong Support Redirect - Seems clear that the George Floyd in
Death of George Floyd is more widely known than the football player, and this is an important topic that people need access to without dealing with disambiguation pages. Google Trends shows interest in George Floyd the football player for the last 5 years was basically non-existent compared with the man recently died. --
Elephanthunter (
talk)
06:46, 31 May 2020 (UTC)reply
Furthermore, I feel like this is a
WP:SNOW and
WP:DEADLINENOW situation. The other guy is relatively unknown with insignificant stats. But for this death, there is deployed military and active protests across the United States. People simply aren't looking for the football player. There is no reason bureaucracy should get in the way here. --
Elephanthunter (
talk)
14:38, 31 May 2020 (UTC)reply
Redirect to
Death of George Floyd and add hatnote there to point to the sportsman; add appropriate items (those partial matches mentioned above) to the "See also" of that target page. Clear primary topic.
PamD10:07, 31 May 2020 (UTC)reply
@
PamD:WP:PARTIAL only applies to "see also" of a dab page, not regular pages. If the partial matches were deemed meaningful, we would not want to force a reader to scroll all the way down to the "see also" of a non-dab (nor is it customary so that they would know to look there). Given
the number of PTMs of "George Floyd", they would not fit in a hatnote either.—
Bagumba (
talk)
11:39, 31 May 2020 (UTC)reply
@
Cryptic: Yeah, the article needs to be a redirect for now. This is a major issue with international attention. The football player is barely notable enough to warrant an article. --
Elephanthunter (
talk)
12:39, 31 May 2020 (UTC)reply
Redirect per Coffeeandcrumbs. Given that the death of George Floyd is the primary topic, I agree that a hatnote to the american football player should be done instead.
OcelotCreeper (
talk)
15:23, 31 May 2020 (UTC)reply
Snow immediate redirect: It's embarrassing for Wikipedia to have an unnecessary disambig page in the middle of an obviously notable crisis. --
Toughpigs (
talk)
17:39, 31 May 2020 (UTC)reply
Also, as an added Comment, I wouldn't call this the right venue to propose a redirection in the nomination. The D in AfD is for Deletion, not Discussion. I would have voted Procedural close, but a lot of people have already put their two cents in. --
letcreate123 (
talk)
18:28, 31 May 2020 (UTC)reply
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.