Talk:Writing pad

Requested move 5 January 2019

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 after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Per consensus, Writing pad now redirects to Notebook and Writing pad (disambiguation) will be deleted since it's no longer needed. (non-admin closure) –Ammarpad (talk) 08:52, 12 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Writing pad → Writing pad (disambiguation) – WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. The page is a WP:TWODABS but the other (second) entry, Graphics tablet, does not even mention the term "writing pad", and I would redirect Writing pad to Notebook, as Writing pads does.

Google Books gives me 290 results for "writing pad" "graphics tablet", and around 2,170 for "Writing pad" "Notebook". Writing pads has one incoming link, from stationery, but that is part of a list on which the same line is notebook, to which it redirects. Understandably, Writing pad has no incoming links from articles.

The plural Writing pads has been a redirect to Notebook since its creation in 2008. Writing pad was a {{double soft redirect}} converted to a DAB in 2011. WP:PLURALPT suggests that should be otherwise, but I think it better to have the singular as a redirect, rather than retarget the plural.

The first words of the first hatnote at Notebook are "This article is about the writing pad"... 178.164.139.37 (talk) 08:04, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support Maybe just make Writing pad a redirect to Notebook and delete the Writing pad (disambiguation) redirect or at best add a hatnote to Graphics tablet and still delete the Writing pad (disambiguation) redirect. Crouch, Swale (talk) 15:05, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I (proposer) would have also proposed deleting the DAB, but didn't want to seem WP:FORUMSHOPPING. 92.249.211.146 (talk) 03:59, 6 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think it would be forum shopping, its just procedural. It can be tagged with {{db-disambig}} if the move is carried out. However I'd reccomend preserving this discussion, maybe at Talk:Writing pad/old. Crouch, Swale (talk) 17:21, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support redirect to Notebook and speedy delete WP:G8 Writing pad (disambiguation). Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 08:08, 8 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support redirecting to Notebook and deleting Writing pad (disambiguation). -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:51, 9 January 2019 (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.