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Requested move 14 June 2019

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved -- JHunterJ (talk) 12:44, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]


Rivers (disambiguation)Rivers – Raised on behalf of Toploftical as requested on my talk page. Certes (talk) 10:09, 14 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Toploftical gave the following rationale:

  1. Just because "similar change previously reverted" does not mean that the change is incorrect. Perhaps nobody questioned the change as I am now doing.
  2. To have a link for "Rivers" is not particularly helpful. Everybody knows what a river is. The only time such a link might be sensible is in a discussion of, say, topography, in a statement such as, "streams and Springs should not be grouped with rivers in analyzing the soils of the region." One should simply link to the singular form as I have done here. The whole idea of having plural nouns redirect to their singular form just adds an unnecessary level of complexity to WP IMHO.
  3. The most common reason that somebody might have the word Rivers in an article is because it is the name of something. There are many things named Rivers. Almost never does a page need a link to the plural of river.
  4. A person who can't remember what province Rivers, Manitoba is in, or the first name of songwriter Johnny Rivers, or the first name of football player Derek Rivers, and so on for the many other people with the last name Rivers, will be frustrated if they type in Rivers. They simply get taken to the page River which is absolutely no help.
  5. Somebody looking for a person named Rivers is taken to river and may not even realize that a disambiguation page for Rivers exists. Most users are not sophisticated enough to type in the words Rivers (disambiguation). WP should try to help people, not hide things.
  6. On the page Category:Redirects from plurals we find the statement, "When editing Wikipedia and using wiki markup, in many cases it is preferable to add the plural directly after the link (example: links)." I could not agree more.

Certes (talk) 10:09, 14 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]


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 or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.