Talk:LHC (disambiguation)

Have removed red link to Lithium Hydroxide canister. Why does a canister type need its own acronym, let alone its own article!

CaptinJohn (talk) 13:51, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was no move. JPG-GR (talk) 01:09, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

LHC → LHC (disambiguation) — I'm proposing moving this dab page to allow LHC to redirect directly to Large Hadron Collider, with a suitable {{this}} transclusion to direct users to the dab page. From a global point of view, the collider is extremely prevalent in the news, and is only going to become more so over the next year. I suspect the other entries are much less likely to be abbreviated to the LHC acronym, and are less likely to be what people are looking for. —-- Mark Chovain 00:59, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Survey

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• Oppose per comment below. Flibirigit (talk) 01:50, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose per comment below. ENeville (talk) 06:59, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose. To move a dab page from the primary name space requires clear and convincing proof that it is in fact not the primary use. It is clear to me that this is not established for this proposal. We do more harm then good by moving these dab pages. The more possible alternatives the less likely that there is a primary use. Vegaswikian (talk) 19:47, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Discussion

Any additional comments:

I fail to see how any single one of the LHC abbreviations are any more notable than another. This page should not be redirected. Flibirigit (talk) 01:50, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

This isn't about notability. It's about making it as easy as possible for users to find the article they are looking for. Both the collider and "Left Hand Creek" are notable, but the chances of someone looking for the creek if they search for "LHC" is pretty remote. Few of the articles linked from the of the linked articles are likely to be referred to as their initials, except from within the small communities in which they are located. I think the Lahore High Court is probably the most likely to cause controversy, but going on google hits, the collider far outranks the court (a million hits to about eleven thousand). This divide is only going to get wider as the collider comes online (unless it kills us all ;D). -- Mark Chovain 02:41, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

WP:NC: "Avoid the use of abbreviations, including acronyms, in page naming unless the term you are naming is almost exclusively known only by its abbreviation and is widely known and used in that form." ENeville (talk) 07:02, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.