Talk:SSD (disambiguation)

Requested Move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: accepted, solid-state drive meaning of SSD seems to be the dominant worldwide usage today. If you do think that another use of SSD is very common, you could add it to the list of alternatives at the top of Solid-state drive to make it more prominent there. Jamesday (talk) 11:34, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

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SSD → SSD (disambiguation) — The current page SSD is a disambiguation. The current disambiguation page SSD (disambiguation) redirects to SSD. The key article on this page is Solid-state drive with nearly 200K accesses each month (10x over any other single entry). I want to have SSD redirect to Solid-state drive and then add the other uses template on that page back to the SSD (disambiguation) article. § Music Sorter § (talk) 06:29, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

• Currently SSD (disambiguation) redirects to SSD, which is the disambig page. Is Solid-state drive the dominant meaning of SSD to everybody or only to computer experts? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:58, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
  • Anthony, as I partially mentioned initially, I looked up every entry on the SSD page using http://stats.grok.se/ and found that Solid-state Drive was hit nearly 200K times in October. The two next highest hits were only 17K times in October and all the other pages combined would be less than about 75K. This means more than about 2/3 of all people come to Wikipedia looking at SSD and will want Solid-state Drive. I believe this analysis removes the unknown for what knowledge level the people have because it was based on a review of what all people are ultimately looking for.§ Music Sorter § (talk) 08:05, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
    • That's an incorrect conclusion. Just because "solid-state drive" is the most popular of the topics on this page is not an indication that a majority of people looking for "SSD" will be looking for "solid-state drive". You'd have to somehow compare how many people reached each of those topics via this disambiguation page to draw that conclusion. Powers ^T 12:54, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
      • Powers, in general you are correct. Let's look at the data we do have available to make a decision, unless someone knows how to get access to the information from Wikipedia as to what was the page source that lead to each article from the disambiguation page.

This data came from September 2010 page hits from the stats page listed above. It also gives a comparison to the top article names that also have SSD on the same page based on a Google search.

Article	Wikipedia Page Hits	Google Page hits alone	Google Page hits with SSD on the page	Percent of pages with SSD
SSD	7,751	N/A	23,500,000	N/A
Solid-state drive	177,421	2,840,000	2,960,000	104%
Seven-segment display	19,680	1,730,000	26,600	2%
Silver sulfadiazine	9,386	140,000	10,200	7%
Schulze method	2,975	2,920,000	46,900	2%

100% of all pages that Google can find use "SSD" and "Solid State Drive together". The next best ratio is 7% from Silver sulfadiazine, followed by 2% for Seven-segment display.

Of all the articles listed on the SSD page, 81% of all hits end up on the one Solid-state drive page.

I realize there are a number of conclusions you cannot prove from any of this data, however our job should be to make it easiest for the majority of people to navigate Wikipedia and find what they are looking for. In the end I am proposing that we are more consistent with other disambiguation pages where there is a clear primary topic for an article per Wikipedia:DABNAME based on both the article hits inside of Wikipedia and also on the Internet itself. See examples Jupiter - Jupiter (disambiguation), Sun - Sun (disambiguation), Gun - Gun (disambiguation), LED - LED (disambiguation) § Music Sorter § (talk) 10:05, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

• Support We do appear to have a primary meaning. Some others are obscure e.g. I have never heard the Scottish Second Division referred to as SSD. PatGallacher (talk) 11:00, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
• I think I'm going to have to oppose. It's clear that Solid-state drive is currently the most popular of the listed topics, but it doesn't mean it's the primary topic. Among the older generations and the financial-services and governmental sectors of the United States, for instance, "SSD" almost exclusively refers to Social Security Disability Insurance payments. I suspect both Google and Wikipedia have a slight bias toward computing definitions, for what should be obvious reasons. Powers ^T 12:31, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
• Support move. Looking at the statistics, a reader searching for "SSD" is much more likely to be looking for Solid-state drive than any of the other meanings. Social Security Disability Insurance had about 9k page views last month, while Solid-state drive had 192k – even though that doesn't directly indicate what a reader will expect when searching for "SSD", it does give some idea of which page will be the most probable choice. Jafeluv (talk) 02:27, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.