Talk:Belgian

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Should this page be a redirect to Belgium?

I sincerely think it shouldn't. Otherwise it could be very difficult for someone looking for the topic "Belgian (horse)" to find it. While someone looking for Belgian (citizen) will always find its way to Belgium thanks to the disambig page. To my humble opinion. --Edcolins 21:23, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)

We have a set policy for dealing with these situations. Paris does not disambig to Paris, Ontario. St. Petersburg goes straight to the one in Russia, with a separate page pointing to St. Petersburg, Florida. In general a term needs to refer to an alternate meaning 20% of the time to justify a disambig page. Otherwise it just gets pointed to from a line on the top of the main article. - SimonP 21:35, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)

This policy does not apply to this case, since there is no proper article on Belgian, the citizen of Belgium, but rather a redirect to Belgium's article. Specifically, the "Primary topic" disambiguation policy does not apply to Belgian while it does apply to Belgium (disambiguation)/Belgium. Again, someone looking for Belgian, the horse, would have no way to even find the article he is looking for if there would be no disambiguation page for Belgian. He would have to go from Belgium to Belgium (disambiguation) to eventually find the article. --Edcolins 21:57, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)

There are no proper article at St. Petersburg, Toronto, or many other articles with separate disambig pages. The standard rules apply to these and to Belgian. - SimonP 22:03, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)

Some more examples:

All then disambig based on their redirects - SimonP 22:10, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)

Okay... but with the intro in Belgium linking to the horse (in conformance with your examples). That's a fair solution. It is not what you had done initially though ;) [1]. I think we have a deal now... --Edcolins 22:21, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)

Requested move 25 December 2021

The request to rename this article to Belgian has been carried out.

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Belgian (disambiguation) → Belgian – Belgian is currently a redirect to Belgians, a page that explains Belgian people. But this redirect is ambiguous and it could mean many other things like Belgian language, something related to Belgium, etc. I think the current Belgian (disambiguation) should be moved to Belgian so that pages will be disambiguated on that page, at the same time eliminating the redirect of Belgian, which is not unique to Belgian people. Dragoniez (talk) 05:41, 25 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Support Belgian horse gets 3,653 views compared with 5,814 for Belgians and some other alternatives get more[[2]]. Crouch, Swale (talk) 10:33, 25 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Retarget DAB page to Belgium giving "Belgian" or "Belgians" are demonyms for the country named Belgium. I oppose the page move, but retarget to correct page feels reasonable. 125.167.59.84 (talk) 14:19, 25 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]