Talk:Aston (disambiguation)

Merge
Aston (UK Parliament constituency) is a separate, and incomplete, disambiguation page. All such pages have been merged into the complete dab, and I think that's what's best here. By adding a subsection 'Constituencies', then it could redirect straight to them, meaning it wouldn't get lost among other entries. This is the solution which has been used for the others. That's my opinion anyway...any concerns? Boleyn (talk) 06:30, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Requested move 21 February 2021

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: No consensus to move. Partial title matches have always been partially discounted for PT discussions, but here we have not reached a consensus on how much to discount the many partial title matches. Red  Slash  18:36, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

– No clear primary topic over the large number of alternatives, there are some 66 entries (excluding the 10 for Birmingham related topics). Aston Martin gets nearly 10x (36,878) the views of the suburb (5,289) although the suburb's football club gets 82,328[] which probably partly counts for DABCONCEPT. Although Google returns mainly the suburb (or at least things associated with it) Images only returns the car and Books doesn't return anything for the suburb but the car and other uses are there.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 19:54, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Aston (disambiguation) → Aston
 * Aston → Aston, Birmingham


 * Support per nom. No clear primary topic for this name. Move disambiguation page to basename. Paintspot Infez (talk) 02:12, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Support per nomination and Paintspot Infez. WP:NOPRIMARY. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 03:38, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Support per nom.ZXCVBNM (TALK) 05:40, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Support per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 14:20, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose - at least on the evidence put forward. The issue is whether Aston the suburb is the PT for Aston, and page views for Aston Martin or Aston Villa are pretty irrelevant unless you can show the users were searching for Aston (I doubt if many, if any, were).  In fact it is very arguable that Aston Martin and Aston Villa should not even be in the dab page - per WP:PARTIAL.  Aston Villa is commonly referred to as "Villa", and rightly appears at Villa (disambiguation), but rarely if ever as "Aston".--Mhockey (talk) 17:57, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I think the large number of unrelated places called "Aston" plus the fact that Images only returns the car and Books doesn't return the suburb puts PT in question yes the car is probably a PTM though its not completely irrelevant. I was merely mentioning the FC's views in a way that favours the suburb per WP:DABCONCEPT though it doesn't seem the suburb is clearly primary overall even if you include some views from the FC.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 11:23, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Well, it's not really surprising that Google Images returns partial matches - all the images seem to be captioned "Aston Martin" and none plain "Aston". The suburb is a significant place with a population of 22,000 (and a university), whereas all the other Astons seem to be villages or hamlets with populations a tiny fraction (in the order of 1%) of the population of the suburb.--Mhockey (talk) 20:31, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Oppose. Not many on the list are just called or referred to as Aston and the area of Birmingham is by far the most significant of those that are. Although the car is sometimes called just an Aston, the full Aston Martin is far, far more common. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:44, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose per Mhockey and Necrothesp. The nomination talks about Aston Martin and Aston Villa as the possible other contenders for primary topic, yet neither of those are actually called just Aston. And neither is even referred to in common parlance by that name. So among pages that are contenders for this name, the Birmingham suburb is the most commonly referenced and long-term significant, hence it should retain its longterm status quo as primary topic. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 23:01, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Support. Apart from all the villages, there are all the people mentioned at Aston (name). Mick Aston for example has twice the views of the suburb (|Mick_Aston) and he is often referred to as just Aston. Vpab15 (talk) 23:26, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
 * No he isn't. He's referred to as Mick Aston. If you just said "Aston" nobody would have a clue you were talking about him. Same with all the others on the list. -- Necrothesp (talk) 11:39, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
 * It is customary to refer to people by just their surnames, as is done in the article Mick Aston several times. I agree if you just said "Aston" nobody would have a clue what you were talking about. That is because there is no primary topic for Aston. Vpab15 (talk) 13:13, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
 * But primary topic is expressly not about what one recognizes when you say it, but is about how one is likely to search for a given topic. Precisely because Aston is such a common surname anyone searching for someone with that surname is likely to include the person's first name in the search. But this place is the topic on the dab page that anyone searching for it is likely to search with plain "Aston". In fact, they are highly unlikely to search for it any other way; that's not true for any other topic on that dab page except maybe the other far more obscure places. So this is an unusual case where a term with a large number of potential ambiguous uses still has a primary topic because the term is not a likely search term for the other uses. --В²C ☎ 15:22, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Precisely because Aston is such a common name, chances are a user will be more familiar with one other place or person with that name rather than with the Birmingham suburb. The fact that is so common means there is no primary topic. It cannot possibly be that if we had fewer articles with Aston in the title there wouldn't be a primary topic but because there are so many articles with Aston in the title the primary topic must be the Birmingham suburb. It seems that is what you are suggesting and I cannot really understand that logic. Vpab15 (talk) 22:19, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes. People searching for someone with a unique surname are more likely to search with just the surname than are people searching for someone with a common surname. In this case the surname Aston is very common so people searching for articles about people with that surname are unlikely to search with just the surname. Thus all those topics can be ignored when determining primary topic for "Aston". --В²C ☎ 05:44, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes there is. It's the suburb of Birmingham! If anyone said Aston to me without a qualifier I'd immediately understand that's what they were talking about! I certainly wouldn't think it was any of the other items on the list. It's by far the most notable topic that is just referred to by that single word. You certainly would not refer to Mick Aston (or any of the other people) as "Aston" the first time you referred to him and expect other people to know who you were talking about. Unless maybe you were a group of archaeologists! -- Necrothesp (talk) 17:05, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
 * "Unless maybe you were a group of archaeologists". Exactly. Or if you are with a group of astronomers, the primary topic would be Aston (crater). Or perhaps be Francis William Aston, Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the person who the crater is named after. Obviously, in Birmingham the primary topic would be the suburb, but for a global encyclopedia it clearly isn't. Vpab15 (talk) 22:33, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
 * If you Google "aston site:en.wikipedia.org" from the United States the first hit is the Birmingham suburb. That says it all. According to Google objective technology, the suburb is the primary topic for "Aston" on WP. --В²C ☎
 * Of course the suburb is currently the primary topic on wikipedia. That is why we are having this RM, to fix that. Vpab15 (talk) 11:16, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Apparently you're not aware Google returns pages for a search in the order of how frequently users seek those pages when searching with that term. It's not based on WP title or PT choices. For example, when I Google with "corvette site:en.wikipedia.org" the first result returned is Chevrolet Corvette, followed by Chevrolet Corvette (C1), Chevrolet Corvette (C4) and  Chevrolet Corvette (C7); WP'S choice for Corvette PT (the warship) isn't in the search results until the fifth item listed. If this move succeeds Google will start returning Aston, Birmingham first for searches of plain "aston". Let's not break it like Corvette is broken. --В²C ☎ 13:03, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose. What said. No evidence the other PT contenders are even commonly sought with just "Aston". --В²C ☎ 22:05, 3 March 2021 (UTC)