Talk:AANP

Requested move 2 August 2019

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 as proposed. There is consensus that the primary topic for this is not the American Association of Neuropathologists, but there is no consensus to switch the primary topic altogether and make American Association of Nurse Practitioners primary. So the disambiguation page goes at the base name. No prejudice against future reasoned proposals to make the other one primary though. — Amakuru (talk) 19:02, 13 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

AANP (disambiguation) → AANP – Between the two topics listed on this disambiguation page, it seems that the acronym has been used rather frequently to describe either topic. In fact, the current target of AANP is American Association of Neuropathologists, but most results for the acronym on third party search engines seems to be for American Association of Nurse Practitioners. Steel1943 (talk) 10:10, 2 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator comment: Seems I may have not been clear in my nomination statement. Though one topic may have more views than the other, I don't believe it is enough to declare a primary topic, and this I believe the disambiguation page should be moved to the base name. Steel1943 (talk) 16:48, 12 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. You are correct that Nurse Practitioners are the primary topic, see for example https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=wiki.riteme.site&platform=all-access&agent=user&range=latest-20&pages=American_Association_of_Nurse_Practitioners%7CAmerican_Association_of_Neuropathologists, but that means that AANP should redirect to the Nurse Practitioners with a hatnote directing lost editors to the Neuropathologists. See Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Disambiguation page or hatnotes? I'm going to swap the redirect target to the primary topic in my next edit. Celia Homeford (talk) 12:04, 9 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment – Someone changed the AANP redirect target during this discussion; that's inappropriate. And way back in 2007, AANP was a disambig page, but a primarytopic claim was made when American Association of Nurse Practitioners was a redlink, according to the edit summary. I'd rather see AANP be the disambig page, myself. That is, I Support this proposal, but I do not support the primarytopic takeover. Dicklyon (talk) 01:31, 11 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
See above. Also, in support of primary topic, Nurse Practitioners has 100,000 members, Neuropathologists, 800. Celia Homeford (talk) 11:19, 12 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
...Of course it does; there are more people without doctorates than there are with, but numbers alone do not make one group more notable (or more searched) than the other. Steel1943 (talk) 19:55, 12 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
You can see that more people search for Nurse Practitioners at google trends, e.g. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=American%20Association%20of%20Neuropathologists,American%20Association%20of%20Nurse%20Practitioners. You also said above that 'most results for the acronym on third party search engines seems to be for Nurse Practitioners'. Celia Homeford (talk) 10:27, 13 August 2019 (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.