Talk:Assassin (disambiguation)

Possible target of redirect?
Please see (and contribute at) Talk:Hashshashin for a discussion of a possible re-targetting of the Assassins redirect (which currently points to Assassination) to this page. I've just been working through 'what links here' for Assassins, and the vast majority of the links to it were not for assassination, but rather to the musical, film, or sect. That indicates to me that the redirect ought not to point at Assassination, since it's usually the wrong thing. Noel (talk) 02:57, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Requested 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. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 14:35, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Assassin → Assassin (disambiguation) — It appears most likely that Assassination is the primary topic for this title. A move would allow Assassin to be redirected to the primary topic. —R'n'B (call me Russ) 14:39, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. Note that few of the items on Assassin (disambiguation) are unqualifiedly called "Assassin" and those that are are not particularly notable.  Also note that, according to WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, a primary topic does not need to be an article at title (e.g., Siam, Danzig).  —   AjaxSmack   02:18, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Support, per Ajax's reasoning. Rennell435 (talk) 13:43, 15 February 2010 (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.

The Crimson Angles
The Crimson Angles are a group of people who call them selves a creed and are not well known, take it from of their council members, code name RED, one of three people, (RED, BLUE, and GREEN), basing some of their beliefs off of fictional game Assassin's Creed, and the nonfictional Order of Assassins, an ancient Islamic group. — Preceding unsigned comment added by The Crimson Angle (talk • contribs) 23:57, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Order of Assassins: more prominent?
I came to this disambiguation page in search of the article on the ancient Asian Order of Assassins which is the origin of the term "assassin" itself. I think it is quite reasonable that the primary subject for the disambiguation page is taken to be assassins/assassination in general, but on scrolling through several screens of mainly cultural references, and then only finding the root of all these references stuffed away in an "Other uses" section at the bottom, seemed a bit backwards to my intuition.

I don't feel quite bold enough on Wikipedia disambiguation page policies to make an edit straight away, so I thought I'd ask for advice or assistance: Is there an accepted pattern where e.g. the lead of the disambiguation page can do something like the added second line in this example, before the first subcategory?

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An assassin is a person who commits targeted murder.

The origin of the term is the medieval Order of Assassins.

Assassin may also refer to:

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Thanks for any input and insights! OMHalck (talk) 21:15, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
 * In the absence of any replies: I have made an attempt, keeping only one primary sense above the "may also refer to", but adding an initial header for "Origin of term", on the assumption that the list of such headers is not standardized. If this breaks any current conventions, feel free to revert, of course. OMHalck (talk) 11:27, 8 June 2021 (UTC)