Talk:Fairfield

Fairfields, new dab page or split

Several articles (well, two at least: Fairfields and Fairfield Engineering Works) are actually or often called Fairfields. These are a little hard to find in the long list of things called Fairfield. Fairfields used to be a redirect to Fairfield Engineering Works so there wasn't huge scope for confusion, but it has recently been converted to a standalone article about a UK location. People looking for Fairfields, the engineering company are now potentially going to get a bit bogged down. Does this need a Fairfields (disambiguation) page, with only two entries at this point? A redirect from something like Fairfields (engineering company)? Just modifications on this page to make Fairfields entries easier to find? Lithopsian (talk) 17:32, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

As you can probably see, I created a redirect at Fairfields (engineering company), which seems helpful regardless of any other changes. Lithopsian (talk) 17:35, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

I've been working through the "what links here" and in fact most are easy to fix: the weird one is number of times I have found [[Fairfields|Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company]], where someone has gotten the pipe reversed! The hatnote at the opening of the Fairfields article directs people to the Fairfield page, which is a disambiguation and contains the Engineering company. It is probably no harm to have the page you created but hopefully it won't have too many takers. If you are really concerned, why not extend the hatnote? --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 18:00, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

"Fairfield Park" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Fairfield Park. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 July 17#Fairfield Park until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Leschnei (talk) 11:46, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

Redirect to Fairfield Park (Disambiguation)

I don't understand why the discussion above settled on a redirect to Fairfield rather than Fairfield Park (disambiguation) at least for now. The disambig page could be moved later as suggested at the discussion but at least wp:think of the reader in the meantime. I would be bold and just do it but presumably there is more to this than meets the eye? --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 16:02, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

@John Maynard Friedman: Fairfield Park has been reverted back to a redirect to Fairfield, Bedfordshire. There was a bit of discussion here, if you're interested. Leschnei (talk) 20:38, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

"Fairfield (Disambiguation)" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Fairfield (Disambiguation) and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 August 24#Fairfield (Disambiguation) until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Steel1943 (talk) 15:33, 24 August 2022 (UTC)