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Confusion

Talk:Page is not to be confused with talk page as redirect page to MediaWiki, not to be confused with Wikimedia, or not to be confused with Wikimedia Foundation, MediaWiki or Wikipedia 110.54.212.149 (talk) 14:08, 27 December 2019 (UTC) 14:08, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

We need better disambiguation between the article pages regarding interns & pages

hopiakuta ; <nowiki> { [[ %7e%7e%7e%7e ]] } ; </nowiki>]] 15:01, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

KrixomNET Dkakati (talk) 14:09, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

"Charles George Page"?

I've removed this as an apparently bogus entry. There's no reference anywhere to this person, other than mirrors to this site, and the EL given looks like a spoof. JGHowes ^talk - 12:31, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Primary use

most times is a blank piece of paper or with words on it.ex: a book has pages in it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.10.133.4 (talk) 21:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Why do u need to know Paige Surtees (talk) 22:25, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

Testing

Is this even used anymore? 90.197.112.28 (talk) 22:09, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: no move. -- tariqabjotu 04:53, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

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• Page → Page (disambiguation)
• Page (paper) → Page

– I may be an old codger/curmudgeon, but I expect to see a paper page when I search for "page", and I'm pretty sure nearly all older people would agree. When books become obsolete, that'll change, but we aren't at that stage yet. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:59, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

• Oppose: It will be decades or centuries before electronic pages make paper pages completely obsolete. But electronic pages will surpass paper pages by the end of this decade if they haven't already. Oicumayberight (talk) 23:29, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

• Oppose. Page (occupation) is a more substantial topic than one side of a leaf of paper, and older, and more likely to be a subject of specific interest. Given the very large number of uses of "page", it is best to have the undisambiguated link go to the disambiguation page. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 23:41, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

• Oppose the use of a public-address system or a pager would seem likely -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 03:58, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

• Oppose: too many important uses, no primary topic (to Clarityfiend: I agree that to most of us "page" still means firstly a part of a book or newspaper, but how likely are you to be searching for it as an encyclopedia topic in that sense? Not very likely, I suggest, so it doesn't make it as primary topic). Note, to complicate matters, that Page (occupation) has been moved to Page boy Page-boy, and that there is a separate Page-boy Page boy for the wedding attendant! PamD 07:59, 7 August 2013 (UTC) (Corrected 06:54, 8 August 2013 (UTC))
  • Comment I've suggested Page-boy be split in two, since congressional pages are frequently women, and page-boy does not describe the modern day occupation that is more akin to intern or gofer -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 01:09, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
    • There is also Pageboy, a kind of haircut named for the Page boy. bd2412 T 14:56, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
• Support. Seems like the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC to me. -- Necrothesp (talk) 11:54, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose. I see no criterion by which this would be the primary topic. While a case can be made for long-term significance for the paper sense, the prominence and enduring use of the historical sense of a servant contests this (e.g., Congressional pages, NBC page, and page (weddings) are all well-known continuances of this sense). None of the suggested means to help determine a primary topic support any single sense of the term. A simple Google search shows results all over the page (so to speak). Even looking at only Books or Scholar doesn't give any strong indication of a primary topic. Examining What links here doesn't reveal any significant trend. Page view traffic stats as well offer pretty clear indication that the paper sense is not the primary topic. Over the past 90 days, there were 32346 views of the disambiguation page. In the same time period, there were 4720 views of Page (paper) and 19444 views of Page (computer memory), 17411 views of Page, Arizona, 63926 views of pager (a special case perhaps, though certainly a common use of the term "page"), and 14171 views of Page boy. Although not listed on the disambiguation (though perhaps they should be), there were 4785 views for United States Senate Page and 5064 views for United States House of Representatives Page. older ≠ wiser 14:24, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose. The paper page has already fallen from its throne, though not yet fallen into obscurity.  —Sowlos  11:02, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 28 October 2018

Hi there, just saw some of the bullet points not aligning. Do we want to straighten them up..? Wikitracer (talk) 09:54, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

@Wikitracer: That all looks deliberate to me. The ones that don't line up are articles that fall under the topic of the bullet immediately above them. Are there specific bullet(s) you see that you think should be lined up differently? ‑‑ElHef (Meep?) 10:54, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi, no that makes sense when I look at it again. Not fully sure as how to do this by protocol, the comments and signing them but I hope it end well : ) Wikitracer (talk) 12:47, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

The name

I’m called Paige and in this article there is nothing about it spelt with an ‘I’ in this why is that the case? Paige Surtees (talk) 22:27, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

Maybe it's because you are looking at the wrong article? --87.150.0.237 (talk) 14:02, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

3ric PagE

Silent Visionary 2600:1015:B11C:E7F7:BC61:6464:6AB6:B996 (talk) 18:52, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

Requested move 3 January 2023

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The result of the move request was: not moved Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 14:18, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

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• Page → Page (disambiguation)
• Page (paper) → Page

– Page (paper) is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC in this case. PhotographyEdits (talk) 12:22, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

• Oppose I think the 2013 move request is still accurate and there is no WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. Page (paper) still trails Page (servant) and Page (computer memory) in pageviews. [1] Nohomersryan (talk) 17:58, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
• Oppose per User:Nohomersryan. 162 etc. (talk) 18:14, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
• Support per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. Rreagan007 (talk) 19:36, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
• Oppose, no PRIMARY.--Ortizesp (talk) 20:43, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
• Oppose. I prefer to error on the view that Page (paper), Page (computer memory), and Page (servant) are all approximately equal with respect to long-term significance. Zzyzx11 (talk) 01:18, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
• You need to make an argument for the primary topic status, otherwise we have an issue similar to the one described at WP:SOURCESEXIST :) If we look by usage, https://wikinav.toolforge.org/?language=en&title=Page indicates a rather wide scattering of outgoing traffic, which indicates that there's likely no primary topic. Oppose --Joy (talk) 09:12, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
• Support. Definite primary topic. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:30, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
• Oppose. Page (paper) barely qualifies as an encyclopedic topic, IMHO, it's barely more than a stub and could probably be merged into Book. Certainly it isn't the primary topic here, given actual topics with something useful to say such as Page (computer memory) and Page (servant). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amakuru (talk • contribs) 4 January 2023 (UTC)
• Ambivalent. I think that the printing sense is likely the most significant sense, but I am not convinced that it is primary over all other senses combined, which clearly includes some topics of interest and historical significance. BD2412 T 02:15, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
• Oppose. Barely gets 5% of usage (as shown by Wikinav), no indication of greater long-term significance. – Uanfala (talk) 09:38, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

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