Talk:Bowman Field (disambiguation)

Requested move 8 June 2019

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The result of the move request was: moved Bowman Field (airport)→Bowman Field (Kentucky) -- JHunterJ (talk) 16:09, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

– The Louisville airport, currently at Bowman Field (airport), is currently using incomplete disambiguation (WP:INCDAB / WP:PDAB), since there are four airports named Bowman Field that are listed on the dab page. Partial disambiguation is generally a poor practice – if we need to add some parenthetical clarifier, we should fully clarify it, at least ordinarily, and I see no exceptional justification here. The Louisville airport gets the vast majority of the page views, more than all of the others combined, except for the ballpark (BB&T Ballpark at Historic Bowman Field). But "Bowman Field" is not the name of the ballpark article and thus presumably is not the common name of the topic, and its page views are not exceptionally high enough to suggest that it is getting a lot of traffic from people looking for "Bowman Field". The Louisville airport is also of high historical importance, as it is the oldest continually operating commercial airfield in North America (according to the article). If there is a concern about the ballpark issue, an alternative would be to leave the dab page where it is and move the article about the Louisville airport to Bowman Field (Kentucky), Bowman Field (Louisville), or Bowman Field (Louisville, Kentucky). —BarrelProof (talk) 17:47, 8 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Bowman Field → Bowman Field (disambiguation)
 * Bowman Field (airport) → Bowman Field


 * Oppose Move Bowman Field (airport)→Bowman Field (Kentucky) - At the present time, WP:NOPRIMARY, because I don't see a particular benefit. |Bowman_Field_(airport)|Bowman_Field_(Maine)|Bowman_Field_(Montana)|Bowman_Field_(stadium) None of the topics gets very high views on a regular basis, and, for about one month out of each year, BB&T Ballpark at Historic Bowman Field |Bowman_Field_(airport)|Bowman_Field_(Maine)|Bowman_Field_(Montana)|Bowman_Field_(stadium)|BB%26T_Ballpark_at_Historic_Bowman_Field blows the rest out of the water to such a degree that views of the dab page and the redirect also spike quite high. -- Netoholic @ 04:19, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Do you have any thoughts on the desire to disambiguate Bowman Field (airport) from the other three airports? The title of that article is currently using incomplete disambiguation. That is the primary motivation for this article RM, not the suggestion of primary topic status. —BarrelProof (talk) 00:38, 10 June 2019 (UTC) Editing error fixed with strikethrough above. —BarrelProof (talk) 20:59, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm not a aware of what naming convention govern's airports, but following the pattern of the other Bowman Field topics, I'd support a move of Bowman Field (airport)→Bowman Field (Kentucky) per WP:INCDAB. -- Netoholic @ 20:02, 10 June 2019 (UTC)


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