Talk:Administrative Review Board

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I left a note on the talk page of the guy who applied the cleanup tag, asking them to explain why they placed the tag. -- Geo Swan 19:46, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] cleanup tag

Disambiguation is needed: Administrative Review Board can also refer to a US Dept of Labor Board: http://www.dol.gov/arb/welcome.html Administrative Review Board (Labor) Being a (relatively) new wikipedian, i'm not sure how to go about doing this other than creating a stub for the ARB. (In fact, i'm not even sure i've put this comment in quite the right place either...) Clemwang 09:25, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

I disagree that disambiguation was needed -- here at least.

Instead of changing [[Administrative Review Board]] to [[Administrative Review Board (military)]] a [[Administrative Review Board (disambiguation)]] should have been created, to point to any other Administrative Review Boards with significant numbers of links.

Note: Almost four hundred of the links to Administrative Review Board refer to the Guantanamo ARB. While there were only two links to the previously nonexistent Labor page. Note: Administrative Review Board (Labor) is just a stub, with no meaningful information.

I think discussing a move of the widely linked Administrative Review Board would have made more sense, after the Labor ARB article was more than a stub, and had more than two links.

The difficulty now is that anyone can move an article to a new name, but only an administrator can delete an article.

There are automated tools, that allow for the semi-automatic editing of articles, which would reduce the work of changing all the references to [[Administrative Review Board]] to [[Administrative Review Board (military)|Administrative Review Board]]. But, I don't know how to use them. Without using them, changing all the references would be more than an entire day's work.

So, I moved the current disambiguation page to [[Administrative Review Board (disambiguation)]]. That left a [[Administrative Review Board]] that was a redirect to [[Administrative Review Board (disambiguation)]]. I changed it to point to [[Administrative Review Board (military)]].

Cheers! -- Geo Swan 09:19, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

I'll revert the things to the previous state (i.e. move the Guantanamo ARB to the main ARB article and add link to the labor one at the top). Guantanamo ARB seems to be, at least in Wikipedia, the primary use. No prejudice against repeated Requested Move; however, 2-item dab pages are normally avoided, as the top-page dab links ({{for}}) suffice. Geo Swan, you can apply for AWB download here if you want to get hold of that tool; I use it myself for boring jobs such as fixing dab links. Regards. Duja► 09:30, 9 February 2007 (UTC)