Talk:WPA

Requested move 30 November 2021

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: not moved (closed by non-admin page mover) Calidum 20:31, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

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WPA → WPA (disambiguation)
WPA → primary redirect to Works Progress Administration - Per pageviews analysis, "Works Progress Administration" gets more than five times more views than the second-most viewed entry on this list, Whistleblower Protection Act, and most other entries don't come anywhere close. Bneu2013 (talk) 18:16, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

Clarification - "Works Progress Administration" is currently the most viewed entry that appears to be commonly abbreviated as "WPA". In fact, WPA is arguably the most commonly used name of the agency. Google search results for WPA are almost unanimously for the New Deal agency. - Bneu2013 (talk) 04:42, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

• Support. If I'm understanding the question correctly? It seems to be asking for two targets for "WPA"? My vote is for WPA to go directly to Work Progress Administration, and for a hatnote there to point to "WPA (disambiguation)" (the new name to be given to this page). That's what I mean by SUPPORT.

The Works Progress Administration is huge, famous, important, and game-changing historical entity. It's described in hundreds of books, some major, and textbooks too I'm sure. It's very commonly abbreviated as WPA. Every other entry in (the current) WPA is really minor. I'm a baseball stats fan and know all about "fWAR" and "win shares" etc. but I've never heard of "win probability added". The "Whistleblower Protection Act" is the only candidate for any importance, and it's much less. The Ngram knocks it for six. Herostratus (talk) 03:12, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

@Herostratus: - yes, that's what I mean. I'm proposing to move both WPA to WPA (disambiguation), and have WPA redirect to Works Progress Administration, instead of the former. Bneu2013 (talk) 15:07, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

• Oppose - I consider there to be a very high bar for any one topic to make a claim toward any TLA. In this case, there are far too many commonly-used instances of "WPA", and that high bar is not met. The proposal also imposes a WP:GLOBAL concern. Having a disambiguation page at primary for TLA's with multiple usages is best practice. -- Netoholic @ 03:15, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose. Wi-Fi Protected Access and Works Progress Administration have roughly the same amount of page views, with Wi-Fi Protected Access having slightly more but not by much (Massviews [1]). Long term significance is also debatable. I don't think there is a primary topic. Adumbrativus (talk) 09:55, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose – per Netoholic. Dicklyon (talk) 08:08, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose No clear primary topic._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 10:55, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.