Talk:Elephant trunk (disambiguation)

Requested move 18 May 2023

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The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) CLYDE ^{TALK TO ME}/_{STUFF DONE} (please mention me on reply) 03:53, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

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Elephant trunk → Elephant trunk (disambiguation) – So that "Elephant trunk" can redirect to Elephant#Trunk due to WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. LittleJerry (talk) 01:03, 18 May 2023 (UTC) — Relisting. CLYDE ^{TALK TO ME}/_{STUFF DONE} (please mention me on reply) 02:55, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

• Oppose. While an argument can be made for Elephant trunk as WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT to Elephant#Trunk, there are six entries listed upon the Elephant trunk disambiguation page, with the first entry — An elephant trunk or elephant's trunk is the Elephant#Trunk|proboscis/nose of an elephant — flowing directly to that topic. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 04:44, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
• https://wikinav.toolforge.org/?language=en&title=Elephant_trunk indicates 644 outgoing views for the proposed primary topic compared to 2k incoming views (~32%), which is not decisive at all. Because this is formatted as a regular phrase, the long-term significance argument seems inherently valid, though. The only other meaning that is formatted like that is the astronomy meaning, which in turn got 106 outgoing views (~5%). If we make a primary redirect, that means this traffic will short-circuit there, and the stats for Elephant are already at 114.8k incoming views - it will be so much harder to notice if there's a need to disambiguate again. So I guess we should make a comparison of the long-term significance of these, and estimate what is the expectation of an average English reader when they look for "elephant trunk". --Joy (talk) 07:56, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
• Support per nom. and long-term significance. --SilverTiger12 (talk) 01:12, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
• Support as per nom. 162 etc. (talk) 05:39, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
• Oppose But mostly because I don't think a move is necessary. I agree the elephant body part is primary, but a redirect and hatnote is fine per WP:ONEOTHER. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 17:57, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
• Support. Very clear primary redirect. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:52, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

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