Talk:AOC (disambiguation)

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

Is Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain really referred to as "AOC"? If so, the article about him does not mention it. —BarrelProof (talk) 21:32, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

A quick Google search suggests he is. 142.160.89.97 (talk) 05:09, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

If the abbreviation is 'notable', then the article should mention it. Google searches bring up meaningless abbreviations all the time. Leschnei (talk) 15:19, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

Given that we're talking about 22,000 Google search results, if you feel it ought to be in the article as well as here, that would seem to be a case of {{sofixit}}. 142.160.89.97 (talk) 00:31, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

Reversion

@Tom.Reding: Regarding your recent reversion with the edit summary "Self-contradicting", I'm wondering what you mean by that. 142.160.89.97 (talk) 05:09, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

Requested move 15 July 2019

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The result of the move request was: withdrawn, with my personal observation that something that should literally be decided numerically is being voted on by peoples feelings instead. There's no doubt that AOC refers to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, even in world view (go on, visit BBC and other international resources and tell me what pops up first when you search for AOC). —Locke Cole • t • c 23:16, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

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AOC → AOC (disambiguation) – Move this page to the standard page name for a disambiguation page, redirect this page to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and place {{redirect}} at the top of the target article. Over the past year, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has become the primary topic of the AOC "name". She is referred to as "AOC" in major media headlines, and she has registered social media accounts using that name on most major media sites. All the major search engines return her information when simply searching for AOC, and so it makes sense that AOC should redirect to her article first (presenting alternatives as a hatnote there). —Locke Cole • t • c 08:10, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

• Support as nominator. —Locke Cole • t • c 08:10, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
• Support AOC as primary topic, include a hatnote on the target to the disambiguation page.Polyamorph (talk) 08:50, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
• Oppose per WP:RECENTISM. I would say there is WP:NOPRIMARY and just because things rocket up a search engine doesn't mean Wikipedia should immediately switch around pages._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 09:26, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

  WP:NOTPAPER, and given her Twitter nick is @AOC, I don't expect the nickname to go away any time soon. —Locke Cole • t • c 09:36, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

  And? Apparently she is suddenly more important and pertinent than the Air and Space Operations Center and Aircraft Operations Center and Architect of the Capitol which also use that acronym?_{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 12:31, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

Not more important, but clearly, from the page view stats, users are primarily searching for her and not those other articles you mention.Polyamorph (talk) 08:57, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

• Oppose. We need to exercise higher standards than that for assigning a TLR as a primary topic. What is the viewership trend over the past five years, for example? bd2412 T 10:58, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
• Oppose; WP:Recentism. Also abbreviation may be used as a Twitter username, or in headlines, with her full name used in the article, whereas Appellation d'origine contrôlée is often just "AOC". Peter James (talk) 14:06, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
• Oppose per RECENTISM. Let's check in 5 years. CookieMonster755✉ 18:18, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
• Wait Support [Edit: per Polyamorph and The Four Deuces below, had originally said wait] until after the 2020 election. If she wins reelection and holds the political power she has had up until now she probably deserves primary on this. In any case, her article's views should keep her as the top name on this page and not tucked in the middle somewhere, for ease of navigation. Randy Kryn (talk) 18:55, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
• Page View statistics are here, would seem that there is much interest in this page since AOC was elected. In my view that points to them being the primary topic. But I can appreciate why some users might want to wait a few years to see if it stays that way. Polyamorph (talk) 19:24, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

Note, I've also added the annual readership template talk page banner. Polyamorph (talk) 19:30, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

• Support since Alexandria Ocassio-Cortez is the article the vast majority of readers are searching for when they type in "aoc." No need to make readers go to a disambiguation page and have to look for Alexandria Ocassio-Cortez just because years from now no one may know who she was. TFD (talk) 19:27, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

• The politician has a lot of media attention now, yes, but how will things be in 5-10 years? Will we just revert to having no primary topic for AOC, only to make something else primary later when it gains brief media attention? That's one of the main arguments against this move that you haven't refuted at all. Geolodus (talk) 07:19, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

Maybe, it's possible for primary topics to change, but this is not a good reason against as we have no idea what the future holds. At present, Alexandria Ocassio-Cortez is indisputedly the primary topic per MOS:DABPRIMARY: A topic is primary for a term with respect to usage if it is highly likely—much more likely than any other single topic, and more likely than all the other topics combined—to be the topic sought when a reader searches for that term. Polyamorph (talk) 07:45, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

First: the page you linked to does not support your statement; it is merely a MOS guideline to list the current primary topic first on disambiguation pages. Second, I don't see how Ocasio-Cortez has had enough long-term significance to meet the guideline you actually quoted; a few months in specifically American media isn't long-term. The fact that "we don't know what the future holds" is as much of an argument for the move as it is against it. Geolodus (talk) 07:41, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

• Support per pageview analysis, from:

• a (generous) baseline daily average of 31 from 7/1/2015 to when she was added on 6/27/2018 to
• a (generous) new daily average of 392 from 11/1/2018 - 7/14/2019; or a conservative daily average of ~200.

This amounts to at least a 6.5x increase (conservative) to a 12.5x increase (generous) in traffic, assuming the majority of the rise is due to Alexandria Ocassio-Cortez (I can't see what/who else could have caused it otherwise).   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  20:13, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

• Oppose per opposers. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 23:06, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

That said, would it break any rules in renaming as suggested, but having AOC redirect to the DAB-page? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:13, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

Actually yes, per Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Naming the disambiguation page. Geolodus (talk) 07:22, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

I had a feeling. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:34, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

• Oppose. WP:RECENTISM due to current news spikes, particularly U.S. media. The pageviews only spiked since roughly the beginning of the year, about seven months. Not enough time IMO. If we moved pages according to this standard, Wikipedia article titles would be constantly in flux. If she is re-elected to a second two-year term in 2020, and goes on to have a long political career, then maybe we can talk. Zzyzx11 (talk) 03:19, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
• Oppose, I do not believe anyone would search for AOC and be astonished when they find themselves at a dab page. —Xezbeth (talk) 06:15, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
• Support. WP:RECENTISM is about article content where "an article has an inflated or imbalanced focus on recent events". Primary topic is about readership usage and long-term significance. -- JHunterJ (talk) 14:08, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
• Support per the above. A helpful move for our readers and editors. Dohn joe (talk) 16:58, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
• Oppose. WP:RECENTISM at its finest. In addition, we shouldn't be encouraging WP:SEO over our ability to be encyclopedic, and having this acronym redirect to a subject specific to the United States could show some bias favoring readers in the United States. Steel1943 (talk) 21:05, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
• The politician is who people are searching for and her name keeps being removed from the top of the page and put deep into the listings. I just found the link almost at the bottom of the page under 'Other'. That's why the politician should either be primary or a hidden note provided making sure that her name stays at the top of the list - when 95% of people are looking for a particular item Wikipedia shouldn't bury the lead well down the page. Randy Kryn (talk) 10:40, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
• Oppose this move 2601:541:4500:1760:606D:A571:70B7:D72F (talk) 21:35, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
• Oppose. This is a term with far, far too many meanings to deem a politician who is known almost exclusively in the United States, and is of virtually no interest to Canadians or Britons or Germans or Australians or South Africans or New Zealanders or Russians or Filipinos, to be the permanent primary topic. Yes, she gets called "AOC"; that doesn't mean she's the only topic in the world that gets called that. Her presence on a disambiguation page is perfectly appropriate; giving her precedence over all other AOCs, including a German airport and Swiss wine and ethernet cables, is not. Bearcat (talk) 22:14, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

• Oppose. Current solution of putting reference to her article on top is fine. SQB (talk) 08:20, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

• Oppose - nothing but WP:RECENTISM. DoubleCross (talk) 16:36, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

• Oppose per WP:GEOBIAS and WP:RECENTISM. If this was/were AmeriWikiNews, I would support it (but it's not yet). —  AjaxSmack  18:06, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

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Why Aren't There Any Legitimate Acronyms Here?

Aren't the topics in this list supposed to actually use the acronym AOC to refer to them? Almost all of the topics, other than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, merely have initials of AOC without any reciprocal use of those initials as part of an acronym. Why is that? Stevenmitchell (talk) 00:12, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

@Stevenmitchell: It feels like some may have been added to try and muddy the waters on other uses for AOC even being actual uses. —Locke Cole • t • c 19:34, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

@Locke Cole You may be right about that... Stevenmitchell (talk) 21:56, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Not sure what is being implied here. For some historical reference: https://ephemerajpp.com/2019/05/17/alianca-operaria-camponesa-aoc/#jp-carousel-368161 --Soman (talk) 18:59, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Requested move 10 December 2022

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The result of the move request was: Moved as proposed. Lots of good discussion here. The deciding factor is that the supporters cited clear statistical evidence of primacy via pageviews, and no compelling argument was made whatsoever about long-term significance (though it should be noted that a couple assertions to long-term significance were made). Our policy at WP:D makes pretty clear that the mere existence of other things that could perhaps be referred to by the title, or even that legitimately are referred to by the title, is not enough. Assertions of U.S.-centrism were also handily shot down by actual data, which wasn't responded to.

A couple of opposing editors suggested that WP:PRIMARYTOPIC be changed to be against moves like this, which implicitly concedes that our policies are in fact currently in favor of it. While of course policies can be changed, the very reason for their existence is so that a WP:LOCALCONSENSUS doesn't override what Wikipedians as a whole have agreed to do. If you disagree with the decision to move, WT:D might be the appropriate place to complain. We're supposed to follow policies, not local consensus, and the policy-based consensus here is that 90% pageviews is enough to grant primary topic for this TLA. (non-admin closure) Red Slash 23:44, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

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AOC → AOC (disambiguation) – Many years later, and it's pretty clear that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is the primary topic for "AOC". Proof (turn on "Logarithmic scale" to see it more clearly) Note the spikes in AOC daily page views that correspond to spikes in views on the actual Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez article. Searching published works also bears this out.

• Support as proposer. —Locke Cole • t • c 19:34, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

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You shouldn't express boldfaced support for your own proposal. Your support is implied. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 20:44, 10 December 2022 (UTC) As BarrelProof says, we don't do that. In ictu oculi (talk) 13:29, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

• Oppose per previous RM. There is no need to displace a 3 letter acronym for a colloquial name of a politician. In ictu oculi (talk) 13:26, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

  Maybe you can explain it to the ~90% of readers who click-through to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. —Locke Cole • t • c 18:10, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

• Oppose Support (per clicked seaches over 90% as linked), primary by number of views but not yet well known enough worldwide to merit primary of the three letters, although may eventually get there. She is the first link at the AOC disamb. page, so readers likely have no trouble finding her page. Randy Kryn (talk) 13:46, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

  Yes, currently ~90% of people visiting AOC are clicking through to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. But there's no reason for that extra step when they can simply be redirected, with a hatnote at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez back to AOC (disambiguation). —Locke Cole • t • c 18:10, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

• You make a good case, and it is her common name, so I'll change to support. Looks like AOC International picks up about half of the remaining clicks, so should probably be included in a hatnote if moved. Randy Kryn (talk) 03:32, 13 December 2022 (UTC)

• Oppose per the ridiculous number of possible meanings of this very common three-letter acronym. BD2412 T 04:04, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

  @BD2412: I'd argue that there really aren't many practical examples of AOC links from this dab page being primary identity instances (AOC the company, and the AOC under discussion here really being the only two that stand out as using AOC as their identity). Regardless, I'm struggling to understand why we would not direct our readers to the page that ~90% of them are actually trying to reach, with a hatnote for the dab and the AOC company for the other instances? —Locke Cole • t • c 07:25, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

• Oppose. Air Officer Commanding not significant at all then? Who on earth is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? Clearly no primary redirect here. It's not just about pageviews. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:59, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

  @Necrothesp: Air Officer Commanding not significant at all then? Correct, Air Officer Commanding is so insignificant that it doesn't even make the top ten of articles readers click through from AOC to visit. More people went to the Main Page than clicked through to Air Officer Commanding. Meanwhile, ~90% of readers clicked through to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and sources lean heavily into "AOC" being synonymous with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Clearly no primary redirect here. It's not just about pageviews. Correct, it's not just page views. It's also about our readers who, judging from click-throughs, are being stopped at a dab-page when they're really trying to get to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the person who you apparently have never heard of (and thus, is apparently irrelevant to all our readers). —Locke Cole • t • c 20:38, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

• The U.S. congresswoman's page does get over 90% of the bounces from this disamb., and has so consistently for over four years. Many of the last RM's opposers cited 'recentism' as a main reason, but it would seem that the past and continuing consistency would remove that objection. She's commonly known as AOC, and that's what many or most readers will be searching for when looking for her page, which is why the disamb. receives 90%plus of outgoing links going to her article. Randy Kryn (talk) 21:39, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

You will note I said there is no primary topic, not that any other topic is primary topic. I merely used the highly significant term from British and Commonwealth military history as an example. This is not American Wikipedia. Most of us outside America (and, I will take a stab, even many people in America) have never heard of this woman and would not expect an abbreviation to point to her article. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:18, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

Pertaining to the letters AOC specifically, the only other article which picks up many clicks from the AOC disamb is AOC International, and that can be hatnoted. Things like Articles of Confederation usually will not be searched for by initials. Randy Kryn (talk) 15:52, 17 December 2022 (UTC)

• By usage, the WikiNav data is pretty clear. There is still some room for discussion of there actually being a visible long tail of other AOC usage in there, though. I think we should change WP:PTOPIC to say that when there's a disconnect between primary by usage and by long-term significance, that we don't short-circuit navigation, but disambiguate - this is an encyclopedia, not a search engine, and teaching readers to use simple hyperlink navigation is a good thing, not a bad thing. Oppose --Joy [shallot] (talk) 13:06, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
• Support. This is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s WP:COMMONNAME and she is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. Redirect AOC to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. [1], [2], [3], [4]. Shwcz (talk) 15:36, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
• Support per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC and Randy Kryn above. Redirect AOC to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and add a hatnote to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. — Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 20:50, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
• Support The link should go to the primary topic, which is the one that readers are "highly likely" to be looking for. We don't need to tell readers that before they go to the article about "Alexandria Ocassio-Cortez," AOC also stands for many other things they have never heard of. TFD (talk) 05:51, 18 December 2022 (UTC)

  Well, that'd be a bit of an oblivious take... a huge amount of people are aware of AOC monitors, as they're mass-produced and sold worldwide. If there was a brand of consumer products like 'JFK' that was already common in the 1940s, that would be an issue there, too. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 10:40, 18 December 2022 (UTC)

  We have to follow the guideline WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. If you disagree with the guideline, then get it changed. TFD (talk) 12:45, 18 December 2022 (UTC)

  I don't disagree with it at all in this regard - you are only reading one part of it. What is your argument that the long-term significance of the politician is more than all these other topics combined? Or, why should we disregard long-term significance aspects in favor of usage? --Joy [shallot] (talk) 15:32, 18 December 2022 (UTC)

  Long-term significance is a consideration "if it has substantially greater enduring notability and educational value than any other topic associated with that term." None of the topics currently meet that test. The example was "Apple." While more people may be looking for the computer, which is named after the fruit, the fruit has substantially more coverage in reliable sources.

  Another example might be Laurie Bembenek, an American fugitive in the 1980s best known as Bambi. For months, coverage of her overshadowed that of the Disney character, and had Wikipedia been around, most readers typing in Bambi would have been looking for her article. But her name would fade from the news, while the classic Disney film will be rmembered forever. TFD (talk) 13:28, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

  I don't think anyone is arguing that any single AOC topic meets that test, rather, the argument is that because none meet it, yet many exist, and recent popular usage isn't so overwhelming to override the latter, the term is ambiguous and there is no primary topic. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 16:31, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

  If none meet it, then no argument can be made to ignore the topic most readers are searching. Without citing the guideline, can you explain why the readers who type in "aoc" instead of "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez" should be sent to a disambiguation page instead of the page they were seeking? TFD (talk) 17:31, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

  No, it can, because WP:D guideline does not have a presumption that there is a primary topic. Also, if we think readers all 'know AOC is AOC' :) but are somehow harmed by Wikipedia navigation that reinforces that knowledge, how are the readers who don't make that association not harmed by the converse WP:PLA issue? --Joy [shallot] (talk) 07:06, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

  All readers are harmed if they have to land on a disambiguation page and have to find the article they are seeking. But if the page goes directly to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, we avoid inconvenience to the 99% of readers who are searching for her article. We even include a hatnote educating them that AOC also stands for other things with a link in case they want to find out what those things are. TFD (talk) 14:27, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

  This argument would be much more palatable if it didn't seem to advocate this weird premise that disambiguation pages are inherently harmful. Especially in the case when the top link is to the most common meaning and there's very little to search for. Perhaps not helpful enough to readers, but hardly harmful. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 16:59, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

  Answer this question: "If I was looking for the article about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and typed in "aoc," I would prefer to: (a) land on her article, or (b) land on a disambiguation page with links to over 30 articles about topics that have been referred to as AOC, then find and click on the linked article for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez." TFD (talk) 16:01, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

  There is very little to find when her link is at the very top of the list. Even the fact that most people click through over there can be thought of in a different way - that most people don't actually have a problem clicking through the first link in the list :) --Joy [shallot] (talk) 18:23, 25 December 2022 (UTC)

  IOW you are making it more difficult for readers but you don't care. You don't happen to work in the civil service by any chance/ TFD (talk) 13:27, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

  If clicking the first link in a list is your definition of "difficulty", perhaps you need to think of doing something other than making witty retorts. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 17:56, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

• Oppose - per WP:RECENTISM, Ocasio-Cortez does not rise to the level of long-term significance or international recognition needed to usurp an entire TLA with diverse meanings including Association of Colleges, Air operator's certificate, Air Officer Commanding and other topics that were relevant before and will still be relevant after her time in the limelight has passed. If she rises to the level of a JFK or LBJ then we can think again. Cheers  — Amakuru (talk) 09:50, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
• Support. An even stronger case now than it was three years ago. You don't have to "rise to the level of a JFK or LBJ" to have long-term significance. I think by any metric, the politician does have long-term significance. And with 90+% of users looking for the article on her, it's a clear primarytopic by both criteria. It is user-unfriendly to put our readers through unnecessary extra steps. Dohn joe (talk) 01:25, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
• Support per Locke Cole. Per wikinav, it does seem most users coming here are looking for the American politician. Koopinator (talk) 18:09, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
• Oppose after having a glass of aoc Bordeaux. Seriously, the politician fails the WP:10YEARS test unless she gets elected President or something (in which case we can reconsider). Per Amakuru, she also fails international recognition to usurp the entire TLA. No such user (talk) 11:41, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

  You were saying? —Locke Cole • t • c 15:06, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

• Support. The politician is the clear primary topic for AOC per wikinav data. More than 90% of users who search for AOC are looking for the politician. Vpab15 (talk) 11:20, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
• Support Per the excellent and well argued nomination, the data says it clearly what/who the readers are searching for. At the time when the 1st RM was brought up three years ago, it was a clear case of WP:RECENTISM. Not so much now. Jovanmilic97 (talk) 14:53, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
• Oppose - the notion that the abbreviation should be understood with that topic is recentism and US-centric. The world is bigger than US. --Soman (talk) 21:03, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

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Let's revisit the "primary" use of AOC

Outside the United States, AOC as a reference to a back-bench congressperson from New York is not the most common use of this acronym/initialism. In Europe, and in English-speaking wine circles, the most common use is an acronym for the French-language phrase appellation d'origine contrôlée, or controlled name of origin in English. AOCs are the fundamental basis of all French regulation of the geographic names associated with wine production (e.g., Bordeaux, Burgundy, Chablis, Chateauneuf-du-Pape, etc.), and served as the example for similar geographic-based regulation in Spain (DO/DOC), Italy (DOC/DOCG), the United States (AVA), and the European Union generally. It does nothing but demonstrate an America-centric bias and a political bias to disregard the other uses -- and arguably the primary use -- of the AOC acronym. AOC the New York politician is a very minor figure in the world, and I say that as an American myself. 2603:8080:2500:2FCB:A4C3:8D9F:E684:512E (talk) 19:05, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

Looking at pageviews ([5]), the politician, widely known by the acronym, has more than 20 times the views of the French label. Based on that, it seems she is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC and the current set up is correct. Vpab15 (talk) 22:12, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

post-move

Following this move in 2022, we see a marked change in pattern of incoming traffic:

• all-time monthly page views for the redirect and disambiguation page

This is consistent with earlier observations from e.g. Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation/Archive 56#a change in page views between primary topic and primary redirect - we introduce or remove a primary topic redirect, and this makes search engines 'learn' things differently.

If we look at just the recent period, after this change happened:

• monthly page views for the same things since January '23

The situation is different - sometimes a rise in AOC traffic doesn't cause a rise in hatnote traffic, sometimes it does.

If we look at the recent clickstreams:

last 12 months of clickstream data for AOC

From meta:Research:Wikipedia clickstream:

clickstream-enwiki-2023-10.tsv:

• Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez AOC_(disambiguation) link 261

clickstream-enwiki-2023-11.tsv:

• Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez AOC_(disambiguation) link 233
• Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez AOC_International other 16

clickstream-enwiki-2023-12.tsv:

• Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez AOC_(disambiguation) link 256
• Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez AOC_International other 17

clickstream-enwiki-2024-01.tsv:

• Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez AOC_(disambiguation) link 240
• Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez AOC_International other 19

clickstream-enwiki-2024-02.tsv:

• Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez AOC_(disambiguation) link 212

clickstream-enwiki-2024-03.tsv:

• Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez AOC_(disambiguation) link 235
• Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez AOC_International other 10

clickstream-enwiki-2024-04.tsv:

• Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez AOC_(disambiguation) link 228

clickstream-enwiki-2024-05.tsv:

• Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez AOC_(disambiguation) link 210
• Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez AOC_International other 15

clickstream-enwiki-2024-06.tsv:

• Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez AOC_(disambiguation) link 172
• Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez AOC_International other 11

clickstream-enwiki-2024-07.tsv:

• Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez AOC_(disambiguation) link 342
• Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez AOC_International other 12

clickstream-enwiki-2024-08.tsv:

• Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez AOC_(disambiguation) link 341
• Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez AOC_International other 10

clickstream-enwiki-2024-09.tsv:

• Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez AOC_(disambiguation) link 209
• Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez AOC_International other 21

We consistently see that there are readers who go to the monitor manufacturer from AOC, without there even being a link. The levels of this traffic are close to the clickstream anonymization thresholds (10 per source-destination pair), so it's quite possible there's more of this. WikiNav for August shows 4963 filtered views, it's more likely than not that some of it is about AOC traffic.

Interestingly, this matter of the worldwide consumer products brand was noticed during the discussion, and someone actually said we'd put a hatnote up there, yet we didn't, and two years later these readers are still having to navigate less efficiently (and are probably annoyed we're making them jump through hoops).

If we look at where the people went from the disambiguation list:

last 12 months of clickstream data for AOC

From meta:Research:Wikipedia clickstream:

clickstream-enwiki-2023-10.tsv:

• AOC_(disambiguation) AOC_International link 71
• AOC_(disambiguation) Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez link 66
• AOC_(disambiguation) Appellation_d'origine_contrôlée link 22
• AOC_(disambiguation) Alex_Oxlade-Chamberlain link 18
• total: 177 to 4 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2023-11.tsv:

• AOC_(disambiguation) AOC_International link 79
• AOC_(disambiguation) Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez link 31
• AOC_(disambiguation) Appellation_d'origine_contrôlée link 21
• AOC_(disambiguation) Alex_Oxlade-Chamberlain link 16
• total: 147 to 4 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2023-12.tsv:

• AOC_(disambiguation) AOC_International link 93
• AOC_(disambiguation) Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez link 58
• AOC_(disambiguation) Appellation_d'origine_contrôlée link 24
• AOC_(disambiguation) Advent_of_Code link 20
• AOC_(disambiguation) Air_operator's_certificate link 11
• total: 206 to 5 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2024-01.tsv:

• AOC_(disambiguation) Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez link 82
• AOC_(disambiguation) AOC_International link 79
• AOC_(disambiguation) Appellation_d'origine_contrôlée link 22
• AOC_(disambiguation) Air_operator's_certificate link 13
• total: 196 to 4 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2024-02.tsv:

• AOC_(disambiguation) Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez link 118
• AOC_(disambiguation) AOC_International link 70
• AOC_(disambiguation) Appellation_d'origine_contrôlée link 25
• AOC_(disambiguation) Air_operator's_certificate link 11
• total: 224 to 4 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2024-03.tsv:

• AOC_(disambiguation) Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez link 241
• AOC_(disambiguation) AOC_International link 65
• AOC_(disambiguation) Appellation_d'origine_contrôlée link 28
• total: 334 to 3 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2024-04.tsv:

• AOC_(disambiguation) AOC_International link 97
• AOC_(disambiguation) Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez link 82
• AOC_(disambiguation) Appellation_d'origine_contrôlée link 29
• total: 208 to 3 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2024-05.tsv:

• AOC_(disambiguation) Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez link 102
• AOC_(disambiguation) AOC_International link 63
• AOC_(disambiguation) Appellation_d'origine_contrôlée link 25
• AOC_(disambiguation) Air_operator's_certificate link 18
• AOC_(disambiguation) Aeronautical_operational_control link 10
• total: 218 to 5 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2024-06.tsv:

• AOC_(disambiguation) Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez link 92
• AOC_(disambiguation) AOC_International link 74
• AOC_(disambiguation) Appellation_d'origine_contrôlée link 18
• total: 184 to 3 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2024-07.tsv:

• AOC_(disambiguation) Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez link 254
• AOC_(disambiguation) AOC_International link 92
• AOC_(disambiguation) Appellation_d'origine_contrôlée link 22
• AOC_(disambiguation) Architect_of_the_Capitol link 10
• total: 378 to 4 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2024-08.tsv:

• AOC_(disambiguation) Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez link 210
• AOC_(disambiguation) AOC_International link 80
• AOC_(disambiguation) Australian_Olympic_Committee link 21
• AOC_(disambiguation) Appellation_d'origine_contrôlée link 20
• AOC_(disambiguation) Air_operator's_certificate link 20
• total: 351 to 5 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2024-09.tsv:

• AOC_(disambiguation) Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez link 158
• AOC_(disambiguation) AOC_International link 74
• AOC_(disambiguation) Appellation_d'origine_contrôlée link 22
• AOC_(disambiguation) Air_operator's_certificate link 15
• AOC_(disambiguation) Aeronautical_operational_control link 11
• total: 280 to 5 identified destinations

As expected, the monitor brand is up there. Confusingly enough, the politician as well - this looks like some people go in circles, clicking the hatnote and then back, which seems unlikely. Looking at WikiNav for that, however, shows a substantial amount of traffic there, esp. external, which probably means that sometimes the search engines don't know what the users meant and point them to our disambiguation page and let us resolve the ambiguity. So some of the people who land at the disambiguation page from an external source use that to navigate to the politician's biography.

It's really hard to estimate what is the "real" level of ambiguity of the AOC usage in the wild. There are plenty of hints that most people mean the politician, but there's also plenty of hints that a lot of people don't.

I think it would be safer to resolve the ambiguity by presenting a simple list at the acronym base name, formatted with these items in a common meaning section on top.

Especially because it's fairly unclear why people who look for the politician would be in any way confused by having to use disambiguation to get to their destination - it's hard to imagine people don't recognize this is an ambiguous acronym. It's not likely to be hard to pick out the person from the top of a very short list.

--Joy (talk) 12:42, 10 October 2024 (UTC)