Talk:M25

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The M25 motorway is rediculously notable and the chances of someone looking for it are incredibly high. The M25 object is rediculously not notable and the chances of someone looking for it are incredibly low. This so should not be a dab page. I tried changing this once before and it was immediately reverted: "I do not consider the M25 motorway overwhelmingly more important that it warrants a redirect". I will have another go at changing this again soon. Discuss. --Dtcdthingy 18:28, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If this were a UK-centric encyclopedia, I'd probably agree with you. However, it's not. The motorway may be famous, but it's still far less likely that someone from outside the UK would be searching for it in preference to the astronomical object.

Whilst there may still be (on balance overall) more people searching for the motorway, it is by no means clear that the *overwhelming* majority of users would be looking for it (unlike, say, IBM). *That* is the criteria for whether typing "M25" on its own should bring up the motorway article.

You make some bold assertions. However, in contrast to what you imply, it is *not* obvious that these hold outside the UK.

Fourohfour 13:06, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The UK is the world's 2nd largest English-speaking country. Something being hugely significant in the UK makes it hugely significant to the English Wikipedia. You seriously think more than a handful of people are looking for Messier object 25? --87.82.20.142 22:52, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I do. Fourohfour 15:30, 3 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

(The above debate is several months old at the time of this writing.) A search at www.google.com lists the British motorway above the open cluster. Therefore, I would advocate listing the British motorway above the open cluster on this page as well. However, note that for other "M" numbers (e.g. M31), the astronomical objects appear higher than the British motorways in Google searches, so the British motorway should be listed after the astronomical object in those situations. Dr. Submillimeter 10:21, 30 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]