Talk:FEMA (disambiguation)

Disambiguate vs redirect

Until Sept 11, 2005, "FEMA" redirected to Federal Emergency Management Agency of the United States. Today, User:ManuBhardwaj made "FEMA" into a disambiguation page, with two items: "Federal Emergency Management Agency of the United States" and "The Foreign Exchange Management Act of 1999, India". The latter article does not exist as of this moment.

It may well be that the Indian FEMA is more important (in the sense of: affecting the lives of more people) than the US-FEMA. However, within Wikipedia, most links pointing to FEMA refer to the American one (given that the article about the Indian one does not exist yet). Who is going to change all these links? (See Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Fixing_links_to_disambiguated_topics.)

I think a better solution is to have FEMA redirect to the US-American FEMA, and to include a message {{Redirect|FEMA}}on top of that page. -- Aleph4 11:26, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

Requested move 14 March 2018

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: not moved, per consensus. —usernamekiran(talk) 09:04, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

The revised closure statement has been posted to the subsection below. —usernamekiran(talk) 19:33, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

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FEMA (disambiguation) → FEMA – Current redirect not primary topic Capankajsmilyo (talk) 04:38, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

• Can you please provide some evidence for that assertion? —BarrelProof (talk) 21:44, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
  • A simple google search of FEMA shows links to Foreign Exchange Management Act. Capankajsmilyo (talk) 02:25, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
    • Perhaps that is a local customization of Google's search results. When I search for FEMA, I get endless pages about the U.S. agency and nothing about a currency exchange law in India. On page 3 of the Bing results, I found one link to the Flavor and Extract Manufacturers Association, but that is the only alternative topic I noticed in the first 10 pages of results with Google or Bing. —BarrelProof (talk) 17:23, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
• Oppose - It is the primary topic._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 01:52, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
• Oppose – The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency is the primary topic for FEMA, and there is no evidence in this proposal to suggest otherwise. CookieMonster755✉ 14:35, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
• Support. Pageview analysis over the last couple of years (i.e. evidence) does not support a clear primary topic with respect to usage. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 07:31, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

  Note, though, that data on raw page views for the full article titles does not address the question of what people mean when they search for "FEMA." For example, by this argument almost every euphemism for "sex" should be redirected to Sex based on that article's high number of total page views. Dekimasuよ! 23:21, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

Let me be more precise: of the 2 most popular articles whose subjects could be known as "FEMA", there is no clear indication that either one is much more viewed than the other. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 08:01, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

• Oppose - I do believe FEMA (the US entity) does some international work as well —- I’d want to see more to move it. Pandeist (talk) 00:41, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

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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.

post-closure edit

It was pointed out to me that my closing statement for this discussion was inadequate. While this is true, and I agree; I also still endorse my close. So here is the revised closing statement: The proposer stated U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency is not the primary topic for title FEMA, and requested the move. At conclusion, we had three editors who opposed the move, and one who supported it. While the supporting editor presented pageview analysis for support, another editor pointed out the flaw in that theory. The three editors who opposed the move simply stated that U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency is primary topic for the title FEMA. Thus making the outcome of discussion as no consensus.

Even though I went through the discussion, and decided the closure carefully; while making the closure edit I typed in "not moved per no consensus". I apologise for that. Regards, —usernamekiran(talk) 19:33, 22 March 2018 (UTC)