Talk:Airplane (disambiguation)

WP:DPAGE

I'm pretty sure that WP:DPAGE is policy - it says that we should combine variant spellings on one disambiguation page. (It gives the example of honor (disambiguation) housing both cases of "Honor" and "Honour".) So why would we not have them combined here, too? Red Slash 19:21, 11 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The top of that page says it's a guideline. Obviously both pages have existed for a long time, so if you want to merge the pages, propose a merge. - BilCat (talk) 19:26, 11 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wait, WP:D is a guideline? Wow. The point still stands. Why should a merge be necessary? This seems very basic and in line with our procedures here. Red Slash 19:31, 11 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes wow, not a policy. A merge discussion is a better way to solve a dispute than both of us getting blocked for edit warring! :) - BilCat (talk) 19:51, 11 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Just for the record - personally I think that "honor/honour" - a mild difference in spelling of what is obviously the same word (!) is a very poor analogy with "airplane/aeroplane" which are arguably a pair of quite different words, with (in most ordinary settings) the same meaning - BUT different enough so that one is the (say) the name of a kind of Australian jelly crystal, and the title of a British aviation magazine, while the other is an American pop group. In neither case will the so-called alternative spelling do, will it. The whole mess is a solution looking for a problem, and finding one where it has never existed! So I'm for restoring the original!!!! (FWIIW) - --Soundofmusicals (talk) 01:52, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]