Talk:World Trade Center (disambiguation)

Systemic bias

This is an encyclopedia, and systemic bias must be sought to be avoided. The WTC in NYC is one among many in the world, though the most notable. Tang Wenlong (talk) 18:03, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

I've updated the page to comply with WP:MOSDAB, which suggests placing the main article, World Trade Center, in the first line. Systemic bias or not, that's easily the most prominent article that could potentially go by this name, and a person typing in World Trade Centre shouldn't be sent on a wild goose chase to find it.--Trystan (talk) 00:20, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

I've reverted a change that moved the link to World Trade Center in the list with the others. According to WP:MOSDAB, "Since it is unlikely that this well-known meaning is what they are looking for if they have visited the disambiguation page, it should not be mixed in with the other links. It is recommended to place the link back to the primary topic at the top...". An example is given on that page. I've also edited the entries per the guidline, to make them brief sentence fragments providing only enough information to distinguish the articles, to remove any other links, and to make the full article names apparent.--Trystan (talk) 14:16, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Articles to be included

At the moment the dab only links to the World Trade Centers Association (and a movie). Would it not be more useful to link to individual WTCs (per table in World Trade Centers Association), or at least the ones with articles? I'm asking here rather than being bold in case there's something obvious I'm missing. Scolaire (talk) 13:03, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

That would certainly help readers. According to WP:MOSDAB we shouldn't include any red links, since the goal of the disambiguation page is distinguish between existing articles. How about like this?

World Trade Center may also refer to:

• The World Trade Centers Association or one of its member buildings
  • World Trade Center (Melbourne)
  • Bahrain World Trade Center
  • Baltimore World Trade Center
  • ...
• World Trade Center (film), a 2006 movie

I don't know whether it would be best to sort them alphabetically by article name, alphabetically by city, or by country then city.--Trystan (talk) 14:23, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

The format is perfect. I see the dilemna about how to sort them. In the end, my instinct is to sort by article name, although it is slightly counter-intuitive in that articles beginning with "World Trade Center" will go last in the list. By country and city, though it makes sense in the table in the WTCA article, looks kind of random in your example above. Scolaire (talk) 07:57, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

I've done it on that basis. See how you think it looks. Scolaire (talk) 08:28, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:World Trade Center site which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 01:28, 17 January 2018 (UTC)