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User:CalJW left this as an HTML comment after Lord Nelson's entry:

He belongs here not because he is necessarily the most important person on the list, but because he is the only one that people are likely to seach for by this name alone with any frequency. This is a practical matter. Randomly listing everyone with Nelson in their name is just a typed up version of a search result, and thus pretty pointless.


Let's keep talk on the talk page. Moved by Jake 23:16, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. 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 move request was: There is no consensus at this time for this move ~~ GB fan ~~ 07:31, 22 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]



NelsonNelson (disambiguation) — So that "Nelson" can redirect to Lord Nelson's article, which is clearly the primary topic.--Kotniski (talk) 16:19, 14 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'd have thought Lord Nelson would still be the topic being sought by the vast majority of readers typing in "Nelson", but we'll see what others think (I've mentioned the matter at WT:WikiProject Disambiguation).--Kotniski (talk) 17:37, 14 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Clearly the primary meaning, most of the places or objects listed here are much less well known, the few people or objects which are well known e.g. Nelson Mandela, Nelson's column, are not normally known as just plain "Nelson". PatGallacher (talk) 14:10, 15 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson clearly receives many more hits than any of the other Nelsons listed here, some more meticulous research would be need to lay claim to more than all the others combined. However, that doesn't necessarily tell us that most people looking for simply "Nelson" are looking for the admiral. I suggest using a specialize redirect from this page to help gather such statistics, similar to how Lincoln (president) is used as the link on Lincoln to gather more information. Although, that link has been there for some time, and has over several months constituted more that half of the hits for Lincoln, indicating that more than half of readers are going to the president's page after hitting the disambiguation page. There is no agreed criteria for how much is enough to warrant a redirect to the primary topic. olderwiser 21:38, 15 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. The first thing I thought of when presented with "Nelson" was Nelson (band). =) Powers T 01:37, 16 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. To me in Manchester in England the admiral is famous but has gone back into the past and "Nelson" tends to first mean either the type of wrestling holds or the town Nelson, Lancashire. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:45, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Request - any objection to leaving this unchanged for now, but gather data using the specialized redirect as suggested by older/wiser? Can someone with experience set this up?--Kotniski (talk) 08:24, 18 August 2010 (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. No further edits should be made to this section.

Nelson Muntz isn't on here?

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Hi! I noticed that Nelson Muntz, from the Simpsons, isn't on this page. I wonder why? He's bound to be on this page. --208.96.121.65 (talk) 02:09, 17 March 2011 (UTC).[reply]