Talk:Jabo

Proposal to Change this Page from Redirection to Disambiguation

There are at least three unrelated senses of the term Jabo which could be sought under this title:

1. An abbreviation for the German term Jagdbomber (literally pursuit bomber), which is currently redirected by this article to Ground attack aircraft.
2. An ethnicity and language in West Africa which figures significantly in linguistic and ethnological literature, as well as playing a keyrole in the language development strategies proposed for this area.
3. A nickname favored by jazz musicians, notably Cladys "Jab(b)o" Smith (1908-1991) and John "Jabo" Starkes (1938- ), and others with no apparent relationship to that music genre. (This nickname probably also has African roots , but no relationship to the aforementioned ethnicity is assumed.) It also occurs as a surname.

I would like to see this page changed from being a silent redirection to the aircraft sense to being a disambiguation page. The nickname would be the hardest to write an article about, even though it is perhaps the most common sense.

• A Google search for "Jabo aircraft -africa -jazz" produced 17,200 hits.
• A Google search for "Jabo africa -aircraft -jazz" produced 27,700 hits.
• A Google search for "Jabo jazz -africa -aircraft" produced 28,800 hits.
• A Google search for "Jabbo jazz -africa -aircraft" produced 30,800 hits.

Perhaps then I may write an article about the African language.

Sounds like a great idea. I was unaware of the African use of the word when i created the redirect. --ansbachdragoner 22:52, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

I have made the change I proposed. -- Ziusudra 01:51, 1 May 2006 (UTC)