Talk:Gnu

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Why can't Gnu just redirect to Wildebeest, which already has a disambiguation line? If you remove the GPL via the criteria at WP:DAB#Lists, you only have two entries, one of which is (was) already covered at Wildebeest. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Alph Tech STUART (talk • contribs) .

I don't know, I was only doing housekeeping. This can all be undone; no need to be upset about it. enochlau (talk) 23:28, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Would anyone object if I changed this page back to a redirect to Wildebeest until such time as there are more than two substantive things known as gnu?

The vast majority of people have only heard of the animal, which is really where any link should go. The song isn't just called Gnu AFAICC (but The Gnu song, The Gnu or I'm a Gnu). Although the OS is correctly GNU, it is occasionally referred to as Gnu and users may have heard of it in a non-case-sensitive context, so it should be disambiguated on Wildebeest. People occasionally do say gnu meaning the GNU Project, but that could be easily added to the disambiguating hatnote if necessary (which I doubt it is as this should be explained on GNU with an appropriate link much better than in a hatnote).

Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley _{talk contrib} 16:20, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

No objection to redirecting to Wildebeest. In most cases, the original concept takes precedence over the computing term derived from it: Java goes to the island, C goes to the letter of the alphabet, and Lisp goes to the speech impediment, for example. Scheme is one counterexample, but that's because any article on the word "scheme" itself would just be a dicdef, and there's no real sensible redirect target there. cab 06:48, 18 June 2007 (UTC)