Talk:Clog (disambiguation)

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Re: CLOG is an acronym for CLusters of Orthologous Groups of proteins

The linked page actually refers to COGS, not CLOGS. Delete? 24.238.13.125 (talk) 08:11, 30 March 2009 (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. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: moved per discussion below on dictionary definitions vs. encyclopedia topics. I note also that none of the incoming article links needed to be updated from the move, and those are now correct, so it did solve an existing problem, even if the problem was minor. -- JHunterJ (talk) 13:13, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

– Clog (shoe) is clearly the primary topic. Neither of the other options - the plumbing blockage and the UK brand name - has its own article, nor are they well-known, unlike the wooden shoe. And Clog (disambiguation) is currently just a redirect to Clog. Bermicourt (talk) 17:26, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Clog → Clog (disambiguation)
 * Clog (shoe) → Clog


 * Agree. Clog (shoe) is clearly the primary topic and should therefore be moved to Clog. Kind regards, Berkh (talk) 17:43, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Agree. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 19:47, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose - as these 2,300 Google Book results for "a clog" + drain vs 5,320 for "a clog" + shoe this isn't as obvious as it might seem. And there are 2 large articles on drain clogs, Drain rods and Drain cleaner, they just aren't properly linked from this dab, that's all. Another factor is that Clogs plural is a more likely search term for the shoe, and that goes straight to the shoe. In ictu oculi (talk) 00:57, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Possibly, but other shoe types (for instance brogue shoe are in the singular. Drain rods is not a major article, it is a stub and the word clog doesn't even appear on it. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 12:57, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment: The current situation has been around for a long time (around 2005 already I guess); and there have not been many complaints since. I have the feeling the move is solving a non-existing problem. Arnoutf (talk) 11:07, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose per In ictu oculi. Singular clog seems more likely to refer to a drain stoppage. older ≠ wiser 13:56, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Seriously? Come on, team. Which topic is more encyclopedic? Which topic is anyone going to look up? Strong support. As an inferior but valid option, I would also propose clogs as a valid usage of the plural to disambiguate (presumably there's less dispute of primary topic in the plural.) Red Slash 00:37, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
 * You're proposing moving Clog (shoe) to Clogs? That's better than the proposal, but not by much. In ictu oculi (talk) 07:23, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
 * See yesterday. As a dictionary, we would not give the Beatles song primary topic over the word, but we're not a dictionary. You can write a pretty good article of great encyclopedic value about clogs (the shoes). I doubt you can about any of these others. Red Slash 03:08, 21 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Support per nom. While a drain blockage is an important dictionary meaning of "clog", Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and the shoe is the primary encyclopedic meaning.  —  AjaxSmack   05:15, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
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Page contents.
There are a number of issues with this page. I had a go at improving it but was slapped down by an editor who's been around a lot longer than me. Can someone else therefore address these points: Best of luck to whoever tries! Martin of Sheffield (talk) 23:51, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
 * The primary definition of clog is a shoe which is at least in part wooden. See clog for the etymology, but this usage has been standard in the English language since at least the early 15C.
 * There is no need for a separate entry for Clog (British). There are a lot of national varieties indexed through the gallery on the clog page, either all should be included or none.
 * C.L.O.G. is a redirect to clogging where it only appears once, with no definition. Either someone familiar with Georgian folk dancing needs to write at least a stub of the link should be removed - this is a disambiguation page after all.
 * Clock has no linkage to clog at all, so why is it here?
 * Cloqué also has no linkage to clog.
 * The list needs to be in alphabetic order.