Talk:Cabinet Office

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This page was moved from Cabinet Office in December of 2004 to make way for a disambiguation page. The disambiguation page lists the UK Cabinet Office and the Japanese Cabinet Office. This being an English language Encyclopaedia one would expect that the English language usage would naturally be hosted on the unqualified page; otherwise all of the unqualified pages pages would have to be disambiguation pages to encompass all of the possible translations from foreign languages. Jooler 11:21, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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  • Oppose. We can't assume people looking for a "cabinet office" in English must be looking for the UK institution. Jonathunder 05:47, 2005 Mar 20 (UTC)
  • Strong Oppose. English-speaking nations shouldn't somehow be privileged in article titling. Would you have us move Labour Party (UK) as well, as obviously that's better known to an English-speaking readership than the one in Lithuania? User:The Tom 22:43, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Support. Common usage, but include a move of Cabinet Office -> Cabinet Office (disambiguation) first and include link to "Cabinet Office (disambiguation)" on the fist line. Philip Baird Shearer 12:06, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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We can't assume people looking for a "cabinet office" in English must be looking for the UK institution. Jonathunder 05:47, 2005 Mar 20 (UTC)

To elaborate a bit on my objection, I think it likely many readers searching "cabinet office" may be interested in the general concept of a government cabinet office, cabinet officer, or department, which most countries have. Also, google searches on the exact term "cabinet office" show institutions with that name in Jamaica and Canada, at least. So I think this should remain a disambiguation page, which will probably grow. Jonathunder 00:58, 2005 Mar 21 (UTC)
Re your first point, that would be lower case 'o' in office. Re your second point, when someone bothers to create those articles that might be an issue, but ATM they doen't exist. also note that the person who moved this page didn't bother to correct the links, so look at Whatlinkshere&target=Cabinet_Office and see how many refer to Canada, Jamaica, Japan or elsewhere? Jooler 01:12, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

English-speaking nations shouldn't somehow be privileged in article titling. Would you have us move Labour Party (UK) as well, as obviously that's better known to an English-speaking readership than the one in Lithuania?

That's a disambiguation page because of the New Zealand and the Irish labour parties. They are both in English. This is English Wikipedia. Do you think President of the United States should be a disambiguation page because of the "Presidente de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos" ? The must be hundreds of similar examples. Jooler 00:02, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

It should moved under "Common Usage". But I think Jooler that you should change your proposal to a multiple page move, one like the Levellers example as shown on WP:RM#Multiple page moves. Philip Baird Shearer 12:06, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

    • That part of the move request isn't required. I could make that move myself now. The request page is for when a page can't be moved by a normal user, but only by an Admin. Jooler 22:19, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)


This article has been renamed as the result of a move request. Primary disambiguation. violet/riga (t) 21:24, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)