Talk:Centennial (disambiguation)

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True or false: this article belongs at Centennial (disambiguation) with centennial being a re-direct to anniversary. 66.245.2.190 16:50, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)

It would ne nice if it was a registered user doing this, but yes it is true!!!User:SatuSuro 15:51, 16 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

definitely! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.238.15.52 (talk • contribs)

American Centennial

An admin vandalized the american centennial article. Would another admin please fix it?Scourgeofsmallishinsects 15:05, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 30 July 2015

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The result of the move request was: moved (pending deletion of target). — kwami (talk) 17:38, 6 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

(non-admin closure)

Centennial (disambiguation) → Centennial – It is unreasonable not to redirect to the disambiguation page, since there are several meanings for this word. Redirecting to Century is arbitrary and does not allow of the alternative options. Furthermore the disambiguation page already exists and is well-populated with options. Zeamays (talk) 05:44, 30 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Moved from Talk:Centennial § Requested move 30 July 2015

Comment should be the other way around 76.120.162.73 (talk) 17:23, 30 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: This issue has been fixed. Steel1943 (talk) 19:12, 30 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support per WP:NOTDICT. The word should guide readers toward encyclopedically relevant topics of that name, not merely an etymologically related word. — AjaxSmack 02:29, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Hi, I am coming from wp:DPL, a group of editors focusing on disambiguation. Yikes, the move just broke 342 incoming links! I.E., there are 342 Wikipedia pages linking to Centennial, where they mean a 100th year anniversary. I gather that Centennial used to redirect to Anniversary, which I agree would not have been exactly correct. What is needed instead, is for Centennial to be a broad concept page on the primary meaning of centennial as a word, which makes a better target for all of those 342 inbound links. The page can/should include examples of specific ones, as in a set index article or stand-alone list. See wp:DABCONCEPT for explanation/guidance. Note that articles are not allowed to link to disambiguation pages. All 342 articles would need to be edited to direct to some other target (where?) if Centennial (or its redirect target) is no longer appropriate.

So I hope you don't terribly mind, but I have Boldly moved back the Centennial (disambiguation) and I have started (re-started?) a page at Centennial. This is, otherwise, a minor emergency, as the 342 incorrect inbound links shows up at top of urgent problems in wp:DPL reports. I will certainly watch for comments/discussion here! Sincerely, --do ncr am 11:25, 7 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

User:doncram, thank you for your bold action. I am not in favour of the CONCEPTDAB page that you created as a permanent fix as most of the articles seem only tangentially connected to the base meaning of centennial but it should remain in place until the incoming links are fixed. I think that many of these links are cases of overlinking (i.e. linking "everyday words understood by most readers in context") and can simply be eliminated — AjaxSmack 02:35, 8 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]