Talk:Fe

Fe redirect

Does really Fe have to redirect to Iron? Ca, Hg, or Pb do not redirect to Calcium, Mercury (element) or Lead, for example. — Ark25 (talk) 01:12, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. You have a point. Since there are two of us, I'll try to fix this unless we get massive objections from others. S B H arris 02:16, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please discuss change in Fe at Talk:Fe. "Fe" might have a primary topic when "Hg" doesn't, for example. If the new consensus is that "Fe" no longer has a primary topic, Fe (disambiguation) will need to be moved to the base name, otherwise it's WP:MALPLACED. Cheers! -- JHunterJ (talk) 12:31, 14 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Fe (disambiguation) should be moved to Fe. FE should redirect to Fe. — Ark25 (talk) 08:30, 17 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Vote

Okay, everybody: iron (element) is the primary topic for iron. But should iron (element) be the primary topic for Fe? Personally, I say:

No. I think Fe should be handled as are all the other two-letter symbols which happen to stand for chemical elements, but may stand for many other things also. Examples given above. The capitalization problem is the root of this discussion. If you make the element the primary topic for the symbol, you make it the primary topic for any two-letter combination. Fe must direct to the same page as FE, so that (as it is) FE directs to iron also, even though FE is never used as a symbol for iron. I suggest that that is not a good thing. S B H arris 20:59, 14 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
No. For the same reason Hg doesn't redirect to Mercury (element). — Ark25 (talk) 08:48, 17 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Yes: FE could be a disambiguation article (and a hatnote on iron "that Fe redirect here, but look at FE ..."). Most of the links at this diasmbiguation is for FE, and I think that Fe for iron is primary topic. Christian75 (talk) 10:47, 27 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
No. The abbreviation Fe is chemical jargon, and could also refer to Fe (rune) in linguistics. Clearly not a primary topic. —Ruud 10:10, 28 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Re-resulting malplaced disambiguation page moved to the base name, despite the questionable rationales given above. Next time, please use the normal WP:RM discussion process to move the disambiguation page to the base name. Say, at Bk. -- JHunterJ (talk) 00:30, 29 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Another type of FE

So, just looking though the page, and I noticed the Fe page does not redirect to Fire Emblem. Am I allowed to edit it in? Or is there some sort of problem that arises in doing so? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.14.158.3 (talk) 00:57, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]