Talk:McLaren (disambiguation)

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It's not really appropriate for there to be a disambiguation page here. A dismbiguation page is for where there are two or more articles which share the same "natural" title. For example, Lotus could equally well mean the car company or the flower of the same name, so a disambiguation page is needed. However, that is not the case here - there is only one article listed here that is naturally called McLaren - the F1 team. We don't need a list of people called McLaren, because that doesn't create and article title conflict; nor do we need to distinguish carefully between companies in McLaren group, because they all operate as essentially the same company (virtually any company of any size is structured in this way, and having disambiguation pages in this way for all of them would be confusing and a waste of time).

I would suggest the best way to resolve this is either to move the main Team McLaren here (and perhaps merge the McLaren Group article into it, to clarify the company structure), or to have this page redirecting to Team McLaren.

Keeping the disambiguation page would mean we need to fix all the links pointing here to point to the appropriate articles [1].

Any comments?

Enchanter 11:18, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)

Team McLaren is a subsidiary of the McLaren Group. The name McLaren can be and is used to refer to the McLaren Group, McLaren Cars, etc. I'm not opposed to moving the article about the F1 team here, but the team and other companies need to be kept separate since they are separate entities. — Dan | Talk 14:19, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)