Talk:SPL

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Scottish Premier League should be top given that, of the two articles above it, one doesn't even have a Wikipedia article and the other refers to a now disused airport code. Additionally, of the three, the Scottish Premier League would be the most looked at page (it would be rather hard to look at the top article seeing as it doesn't exist. 86.132.239.136 (talk) 13:48, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

It is customary to actually 'Talk' about something before making the edit. 1 minute doesn't give that long!

As per your reasoning, I have moved the 'Scottish Premier League' to position 2. Typing SPL into Google and other major search engines yields 'Standard PHP Library' earlier than 'Scottish Premier League' (although the top 6 results aren't in the disambig)


. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rcalvert (talk • contribs) 16:35, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Maybe there's some regional variation at play here, but when I type "SPL" into google.com the first link is the Scottish Premier League website. Blankfrackis (talk) 03:23, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Also, I don't think this is a foolproof method to decide what should come first in the list. There are websites where the "SPL" might stem from the domain name and have very little to do with the actual subject. The Seattle Public Library, for instance, is one of the top hits on google due to its url (www.spl.lib.wa.us) but I would imagine this abbreviation isn't used a great deal in general discourse and that few people arrive at the library's wikipedia page from typing in "SPL". In contrast, the Scottish Premier League is almost exclusively referred to as "the SPL". Blankfrackis (talk) 03:30, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Agreed. I think Google tries to be clever about what country your IP is from and the region of your browser. Wikipedia guidence is not exactly clear. The original disambig was (mainly) alphabetic, which I thought was ok becuase research wasn't required. Unless you know some way of getting 'Click Stats' from Wikipedia somehow I don't know what to suggest.

--Rcalvert (talk) 09:07, 22 May 2008 (UTC)