Talk:Berne Convention (disambiguation)

Merger

Merged Berne Convention (disambiguation). It was a no-brainer.Don't know how I missed the page originally.Cutler (talk) 19:51, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Page move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: page moved. Andrewa (talk) 22:14, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

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Berne Convention → Berne Convention (disambiguation) — and redirect Berne Convention to Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. TJRC (talk) 00:31, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Rationale

Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is clearly the primary topic of the four articles listed on this DAB page, as described below.

• Incoming Links. There are by far more incoming links to Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (the copyright treaty) than to any of the others. It has more than double (almost three times) the number of links as the #2 article.

Incoming links (article space only, 2011-04-08, excluding link from this DAB page)

article	# of links	percent
Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works	169	71.6%
Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats	60	25.4%
Berne Convention (1906)	4	1.7%
Treaty of Bern	3	1.3%
Total	236	100%

• Article traffic. There is overwhelmingly more traffic to Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works than to any of the others, or indeed, to all of the others combined; last month, more than 90% of the traffic was to that article.

Article traffic (March 2011, the most recent complete month)

article	# of views	percent
Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works	15512	92.2%
Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats	1019	6.0%
Berne Convention (1906)	276	1.6%
Treaty of Bern	0	0.0%
Total	16807	100%

Interestingly, even this dab page, Berne Convention, gets more traffic than all the other articles listed on it other than the #1 entry. It got 2001 views, nearly double the #2 article.

• Google hits. I know this is not the decision maker, but it's useful info. I just ran a search on "Berne Convention". On the first page, the top 9 hits are for the copyright treaty; the 10th is for the wildlife treaty. Interestingly, same on the second page: hits 11-19 are for the copyright treaty, hit #20 for the wildlife treaty. But those are the only 2 hits of the first 100. 98% of the top 100 google hits (for me, anyway) are to the copyright treaty.

In sum, it seems pretty clear to me that:

1. Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is the primary topic;
2. Berne Convention should be moved to Berne Convention (disambiguation) over redirect;
3. Berne Convention should redirect to Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works; and
4. Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works should get a {tl|redirect}} hatnote pointing to Berne Convention (disambiguation).

TJRC (talk) 00:31, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Support, evidence provided plus own experience indicates this is a clear primary topic. (I would even shorten the title of the primary topic article to simply "Berne Convention" - the common name.)--Kotniski (talk) 10:25, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

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. No further edits should be made to this section.