Talk:George Floyd (disambiguation)

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Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 29 May 2020

Edit request: add George Floyd (killed African-American) into the disambiguations.

The result should be: George Floyd may refer to:

• George Floyd (killed African-American), an African-American man killed by a white Minneapolis police officer on May 25, 2020
• George Floyd (American football) (born 1960), American football player for the New York Jets

Herobrine303 (talk) 05:58, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

 Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{edit extended-protected}} template. There should only be one blue link per entry per MOS:DABBLUE. They both currently point to the same Death of George Floyd. Not sure if the redirect George Floyd (killed African-American) meets MOS:DABREDIR if that was the sole blue link.—Bagumba (talk) 06:51, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

The page George Floyd (killed African-American) was not an redirect before. It was changed to one later. -- Herobrine303 (talk) 07:04, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Understood. If there was consensus for a standalone article on him, that would be the main link. Otherwise, I'm not sure if there is precedent to have the left side list a title with a disambiguator with "killed" that redirects to a page on their death.—Bagumba (talk) 07:12, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Spelling error

Carelessly spelling the word "led" as "lead" (with the wrong conjugation) in this disambiguation page undermines our project's credibility, making our editors appear poorly educated. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 11:21, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

Recent protests

Do we also want to add the "George Floyd protests" page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anon0098 (talk • contribs) 03:03, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

@Anon0098: The title is considered a WP:PARTIAL match, so an entry is not suitable, but one could get to it from the general "George Floyd" search link in the "see also" section.—Bagumba (talk) 04:02, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

Redirect to Death of George Floyd

This should be a redirect rather than a disambiguation. Less than 10 a day were visiting the page "George Floyd" before recent events, now hundreds of thousands are, clearly not in an attempt to find out about the footballer. Speed74 (talk) 04:46, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

@Speed74: Yeah, I've just been WP:BOLD and added a redirect. Statistically, nobody is looking for the Tampa, FL football player. A disambiguation might be necessary if even 1% of traffic intentionally went to the football player, but that's not the case. --Elephanthunter (talk) 12:53, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

@Speed74: You can discuss this at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George Floyd. Regards.—Bagumba (talk) 16:34, 31 May 2020 (UTC)