Talk:Ringwood, Hampshire

Latest comment: 2 years ago by Favonian in topic Requested move 5 March 2022

Notability of places around Ringwood

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A lot of the hamlets and suburbs around Ringwood have their own page on Wikipedia, and I'm wondering if they're all justified. Of the various settlements, I guess Poulner, Hightown, Crow, and perhaps Hangersley can justify having their own page. I have tagged Forest Corner and Linbrook since neither seem to me to be notable as independent settlements. I am wondering though about Blashford, Highwood, Shobley, and Picket Hill? Pasicles (talk) 23:12, 1 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

Sandford could also probably be added to the list. PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 23:35, 1 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

Requested move 5 March 2022

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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 after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved to Ringwood, Hampshire. Favonian (talk) 12:00, 12 March 2022 (UTC)Reply


– I do not think that the English municipality of approximately 14,000 people is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC of the term "Ringwood". There are six other municipalities named "Ringwood" listed on the disambiguation page, including a 17,000-person Australia settlement and a 12,000-person United States settlement. One of the necessary conditions for being a primary topic, namely that the article subject be 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 is failed in the current arrangement. As this [pageviews chart] shows, the current Ringwood page gets significantly less than half of the views of the total views of the three municipalities named Ringwood, even when WP:PRIMARYTOPIC would require them to have well over 50% of views. Since there is no primary topic, the disambiguation page should usurp this article and the article should be moved to a title that naturally disambiguates, which my proposal does. — Mhawk10 (talk) 07:26, 5 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

  • I support this tepidly. I think little harm would be done leaving things as they are, since when people search for "Ringwood" they usually get a list of suggestions anyways. And some or all of the other Ringwoods may be named after the English one. But, technically, there's nothing wrong with it going to a disambiguation page...Brianyoumans (talk) 15:30, 5 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
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