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Requested move 14 June 2016

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Moved per WP:SMALLDETAILS. (closed by a page mover) (non-admin closure). Anarchyte (work | talk) 07:19, 22 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]


Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India)Ministry of Information and Broadcasting – no other ministry with exact same name -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 07:01, 14 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

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@Andrewa: @Tavix: I think this is one of eternal "no consensus" WP:AT issues, and I believe that digging through WT:TITLE and WP:RM archives we would find a number of similar debates and even RfCs. I think that some "preemptive disambiguation" (and IAR) is beneficial, but I understand the opposing positions. This is a borderline religious issue, because the articles about an Institute of Advanced Technology or People's Progressive Party (examples pulled off the top of my head) don't tend to attract much of searches and pageviews, i.e readers generally tend to not give a fuck. So maybe we should go along. No such user (talk) 21:44, 21 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  • Rather, we should disambiguate only when two or more articles have the same title. There's only one article with the title "Ministry of Information and Broadcasting" so there's no need to disambiguate. For those looking for something else with a different title, that's where hatnotes are useful. -- Tavix (talk) 22:09, 21 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Hmmm, you're quite right, the guidelines say Disambiguation is required whenever, for a given word or phrase on which a reader might search, there is more than one existing Wikipedia article to which that word or phrase might be expected to lead. [1] (My emphasis.) That's been clarified since I last had reason to check it... I have learned something. Andrewa (talk) 02:08, 22 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.
(edit conflict)with closer I think that we should append "(India)" in order to provide necessary context for the reader rather than to "disambiguate" in the Wikipedia sense. Let me provide a random list of similar Ministries across the world:
For example, Category:Transport ministries shows that most ministries are disambiguated named with the country name indeed (some aren't, like Ministry of Transport and Roads Infrastructure), but it's not easy to say which of them require disambiguation per WP:D. I argue that readers (and editors) are better served with country name in such "inherently ambiguous" names, per principle of least astonishment. Bonus question for extra points: in which country is Transport Department located? Don't cheat and peek into the article. No such user (talk) 07:34, 22 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
The necessary context is the article itself. Disambiguation should be avoided if possible, as disambiguated titles aren't search terms, have to be piped when linking to them in articles, etc. -- Tavix (talk) 08:04, 22 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Not moved. I can't move this page in accordance with this consensus because there is an article titled Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (South Sudan), and thus the original statement that there is "no other ministry with exact same name" is false. Vanjagenije (talk) 12:44, 25 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]