Talk:Weatherman

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Shouldn't disambiguation be defined neutrally?[edit]

I'm aware that there is an ongoing neutrality discussion on the Weatherman (organization) page but it seems that the disambiguation page is being watched less carefully. If the term "terrorist" is not a neutral term in the linked article its use should be avoided on the disambiguation page.

I'm interested neither in entering into an editing war on this page nor in defending the actions of the Weathermen organization but there are sufficient factual disputes regarding the use of "terrorist" as a factual statement in the linked article its use here is probably an effort to circumvent the neutrality argument.

See Neutral Point of View.

--Henry17403 (talk) 23:13, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Weathermen[edit]

I'm actually more concerned about the efficient functioning of the Dab page than the specific expectations about the lead, so the current absence from the lead of the plural form has nothing to do my reasoning for dividing the page. Nevertheless, that neglect does point to failure to come to grips with the fact that "Weatherman" has a very different order of frequencies of invocation of a given sense from that which "Weathermen" has. I'm not at all prepared to make a claim in either case of a primary topic, but only that having two different orderings will be advantageous for many users.
In particular, even tho "Weatherman" and "Weatherman organization" are both important variations among names for the political movement, "Weathermen" must have the org'n very near the top of the list of topics intended when that word is invoked, compared to when "Weatherman" invoked (IMO "Weatherman" relatively more often indicates intent to refer to a titled work or the occupation. And IMO the additional "overhead" of maintaining two Dab pages where there is currently one is much smaller than one might initially imagine, bcz the Dab pages for the plural and singular form should in any case end with a "See also" section that includes the other grammatical number's Dab page.
--Jerzy•t 02:50, 4 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]