Talk:List of acronyms: R
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{{helpme}} I was starting to add an entry to this article when it became apparent that the rules for what should be included are very unclear.
I was going to add the following entries:
- RADB - (p) Radioactive D'Bazzar - (i) Real America Data Base - Reunion Address Data Base - Rice Allelopathy Data Base - Routing Arbiter Data Base - Resource Assessment Data Base
- RadB (s) Rad51/Dmc1 homologous protein
Note: broken links are to pages that are underconstruction in my userspace, which due to Wikipedia rules can not be linked to directly.
But then I decided to review some of the existing entries ie
- RAM - (a) Random Access Memory - Rolling Airframe Missile - Royal Air Maroc
That is where the confusion started.
RAM is a redirect link to the article random access memory and includes the following entry: "RAM” redirects here. For other uses of the word, see Ram.
Ram is a Disambiguation Page that extensively deals will all possible uses of the term RAM in all case varriants of its useage.
First question: Why should the acroymn RAM link directly to the article random access memory when it is the first entry in the list and is a link to the article itself? Would it not be better to link directly to the Disambiguation Page Ram?
Second question: Ram lists 11 entries which would belong in the entry on this page, but only 2 of them are listed here plus "Rolling Airframe Missile" that does not appear there.
I am unable to understand why that is the case, which is making it difficult to decide how my additions should be added.
In light of that, I am adding only the following as a edit to this page until I have a better idea of the "rules":
Third question, The general rule states that Redirect links should not be used but rather the link should be directly to the article, this would appear to be an exception where the article is already linked to and the link to the redirect page serves the purpose of making the fact know that it does exist and allows for easy editing of the page if someone would choose to do so. Now the question, is linking to RADb acceptable in this case? Dbiel 14:02, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
- Hi. For your first question, I think that if someone search for the word "RAM" in upper case, they are probably looking for the computer memory, so I think the idea of redirecting directly there is a good one (Ram does redirect to the disambig. page). For your second question, I think that probably nobody really thought of updating both pages. You can be bold and add the missing entries if you want. (I'll look for other pages and do it later if I don't forget ;)). Don't hesitate to update pages. If someone disaggrees, he can bring the subject on the talk page (or revert the changes). For your third question, I think there is no consistency here, so do what you think is best ;). If you need further help, please don't hesitate to post on my talk page or to put {{helpme}} followed by your question on this page. -- lucasbfr talk 16:45, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
This page appears to be doomed to be out of date. The sheer volume of disambiguation pages for acronyms suggests that new terms will be added faster than this, or sub pages, can be updated. If a page like this wanted, it should be automatically compiled from some sort of tag like { acronym: 'ABC' }. Charles Merriam (talk) 16:54, 31 March 2010 (UTC)