Talk:Central Standard Time (disambiguation)

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. 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 proposal was no move —METS501 (talk) 03:02, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move (actually undo move)

Central Standard Time was moved to Central Standard Time (disambiguation), leaving the latter linkless. Also, the disambig page should be left at Central Standard Time to avoid geographic WP:BIAS, and in effect to conform to WP:NPOV. Dl2000 22:57, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose unless there is any evidence that the term is in use outside of North America on the same scale that it is used inside North America. As far as I can tell, all of the 300+ links you mention were intended to refer the North American Central Time Zone, which seems to be a good reason for a primary topic distinction. Linkless dab pages are a good thing. Dekimasu よ! 23:37, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to point out that I hate it (and this sometimes influences my opinion) when somebody moves a page or changes a redirect, then makes a request. Dl2000 moved Central Standard Time to North American Central Time Zone and then proceded to make this move request. The proper thing IMO would have been to request the move, then IF the final desicion was to move it then the two moves could be done. Now if/when this move request fails, an admin will have to fix the pages back to how they were. TJ Spyke 07:09, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, for the record, it was User:Zvar, not Dl2000, who redirected Central Standard Time. Dl2000 then took the correct step of making a move request rather than start a revert war. --Russ (talk) 10:06, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, for the record you are wrong. [1] -- KelleyCook 14:56, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I was referring to this. Perhaps I misunderstood the original comment. Dl2000 moved Central Standard Time to North American Central Time Zone last month so that he could create a disambig page at the former title. Then Zvar moved the disambig page to Central Standard Time (disambiguation). I understood that Dl2000 submitted his move request to undo Zvar's change, not to undo his own earlier move. --Russ (talk) 22:18, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Russ's understanding is correct. Dl2000 02:11, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Actually, the linkless dab page concept has been carried too far here. There is no hatnote from "North American Central Time Zone" to this dab page, and this is a serious deficiency. It makes one wonder if there is indeed a bias. Chris the speller 13:44, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There is now. You could have added it. I highly doubt that the oversight was ill-intentioned. Dekimasu よ! 15:26, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose for the same reasons as Dekimasu. --Russ (talk) 10:06, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - If there's a very high probability (and it appears there is) that a user who links or searches Central Standard Time without qualification is trying to find North American Central Time Zone, then the redirect is correct as is. There's a link from there to the dab page for the small percentage of users who are trying to find something else. -- SteinbDJ · talk · contributions 19:17, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. 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.