Talk:FEMA (disambiguation)

Latest comment: 6 years ago by Usernamekiran in topic Requested move 14 March 2018

Disambiguate vs redirect

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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)Reply

Requested move 14 March 2018

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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)Reply

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


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

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)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.

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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)Reply