Talk:SPD (disambiguation)

SPD

SPD should redirect to the party (Social Democratic Party of Germany), as clearly the primary topic (Special:Whatlinkshere/SPD). There's a link back to here at the top of the party page. Rd232 16:13, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Strongly oppose that proposal. Many non-German users do not associate that abbreviation with the political party. -- Adherent of the Enlightenment 10.0 (talk) 19:20, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Looking at Special:Whatlinkshere/SPD suggests that many English-speakers do associate the abbreviation with the political party. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 13:57, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

You mean particularly German Users who can speak and write in English. That would be the point. -- Adherent of the Enlightenment 10.0 (talk) 15:26, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

No, that's not what I mean. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 23:29, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Just a another remark: Strange, that the SPD then is more associated with the German political party than the CDU, what I would not really believe. -- Adherent of the Enlightenment 10.0 (talk) 15:29, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Perhaps you're looking at it the wrong way. WP:PRIMARYTOPIC asks whether we can identify a particular topic that is associated with a page title and is "much more likely than any other, and more likely than all the others combined" to be intended when a user searches for that title. It is possible the German party is the primary topic for SPD not because there are more English-speakers familiar with this abbreviation than are familiar with CDU, but because there is no other common term in English using that abbreviation; while there might be other terms abbreviated CDU in English that are in more common use. (I highlighted "common" because, obviously, there are other terms in English that can be abbreviated SPD, they just may not be used very often.) --R'n'B (call me Russ) 23:29, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

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: No consensus, Page not moved  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 22:43, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

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SPD (disambiguation) → SPD

• I am requesting this be moved to SPD, as there are several common uses of the acronym 'SPD' and that the disambiguation page should be there. User:75.142.152.104 20:02, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Please explain what you see as the shortcoming(s) of the present arrangement, whether the proposal differs from that in the previous section, and if so, how. For now, I disagree with the proposal to move the page. Hertz1888 (talk) 06:27, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

• Support. This is the English Wikipedia. I see no evidence that the German political party is the primary use. Given that this is a TLA with many uses, a case needs to be made for a primary use. There is none. Vegaswikian (talk) 05:24, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose To me the German Social Democrats are very clearly the primary meaning of SPD. They are customarily referred to as such in the British press, and I can't see any of the other uses coming even remotely close. A very quick look at Google news gives 13 out of the first 28 hits as referring to the Social Democrats. There are also a significant number of American hits referring to local police departments (Seattle, Shreveport), but I doubt that anyone outside the immediate vicinity would consider those to be the primary topic. Skinsmoke (talk) 05:43, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose. All the links to SPD on Wikipedia (350?) are in the context of the political party, and SPD is clearly most prominently used internationally in English-speaking sources to refer to the party. In the Google News archive, only 3 of the top 50 story hits/clusters are not about the German party, 10 of the top 100. In Google Books, 61 of the top 100 hits are about the German party. Fences&Windows 23:42, 1 July 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.