Talk:NCCS

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 moved. -- Aervanath (talk) 07:06, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

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Requested move: NCCS (disambiguation) to NCCS (now a redirect), because the redirect target National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship is not the primary topic. --Una Smith (talk) 00:07, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

• Comment - Is there any evidence to support your assertion (i.e., page view stats for all of the articles listed on the dab page)? It would be helpful towards evaluating this proposal if you could collect the relevant data (so every person who comments on this proposal won't have to check themselves). Parsecboy (talk) 01:12, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
  • Given that NCCS has no inbound links, convince me that there is any reason to oppose the move as proposed. Vegaswikian (talk) 05:33, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
    • Page view stats are below, thanks to SteveRwanda. --Una Smith (talk) 01:18, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
• Support - An abbreviation should only redirect to one of its topics if it is widely known and instantly recognised that that abbreviation refers to that topic (e.g. NATO). In this case I don't believe NCCS is widely known to refer to the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship and the National Center for Computational Sciences seems to be an equally notable organisation. — SteveRwanda (talk) 14:38, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
• Support. There was a time, when the redirect was created (2006), that it quite properly pointed to the only article on Wikipedia that could take those initials. But three other articles can now also legitimately claim those initials but none can claim to be the obvious primary use based on incoming links, pageviews, or a Google search. Station1 (talk) 00:00, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
• Support. Although I have contributed to National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, to me the acronym NCCS does not connote this organization. --Una Smith (talk) 01:18, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
• Support - per the evidence collected by Steve below. No primary topic means the dab should be at the plain name. Parsecboy (talk) 02:45, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
• Support, no strong indication that there is any primary topic and the default should be to have the disambiguation page at the base name when there are multiple ambiguous article titles. older ≠ wiser 13:31, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Some stats

Per Parsecboy's request, here are the stats for for the articles that actually exist:

March 2009

• National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship — 181 views
• North County Christian School — 160 views
• National College of Computer Studies — 86 views
• National Center for Computational Sciences — 182 views

Febuary 2009

• National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship — 207 views
• North County Christian School — 196 views
• National College of Computer Studies — 44 views
• National Center for Computational Sciences — 70 views (article created on 20 Feburary)

So no real evidence of an overwhelming primary topic there. SteveRwanda (talk) 14:52, 15 April 2009 (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.