Talk:Congo (country)

Redirect wth possibilities: A Congo country, but Which?
(Original Talk from the recent creation day, on a Redirect here, is deleted here for readability. All written and deleted by: -DePiep (talk) 22:29, 10 April 2009 (UTC))

Disambiguate Congo (country): A Congo country, but Which?
This disambiguation page Congo (country) serves this clearup: There are two countries easily named 'Congo': Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) and Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa), plus their historical ones. And Congo has more uses, so there exists a Disambiguation-page, now called Congo. That is good. Very often editors have linked to Congo, meaning a country Congo, but without specifying which one of the two (but surely excluding any other meaning of Congo, like Congo River etc.). For these situations, an editor can insert Congo. When this link is used, the Disambiguation-problem is narrowed to the two possibilities. Any editor disambiguating still has the option of inserting both states when necessary. Also a historical name can be found through the Congo-link. -DePiep (talk) 22:29, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Background for creating this page
From the WikiProject Disambiguation. A week ago there were about 260 links from articles to the page Congo (disambiguation). First we did a clean up by linking the article directly to the right Congo-article, if that one could be decided, of course. Then still 80 pages linked to 'Congo', because the editor did not describe which Congo-state was meant, and it could not be determined during the cleanup. These 80 links have been linked to Cogo (country) here. Effect: narrowing of the disambiguate-question of each of these articles, and grouping them here (see 'What links here'). Further: 'Congo' (disambiguation) is not bothered with these links. Even a historical Congo-state can be found via this page. Please note that the regular 'Congo' (disambiguation) is not interfered with. -DePiep (talk) 22:29, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Changed into REDIRECT
After reading MOSDAB and Talk here Talk:WikiProject Disambiguation it should bew a Redirect (from incomplete disambiguation). This page Congo (country) may still be uyseful, in betweeen, by grouping all the which-Congo-country links (today about 80). -DePiep (talk) 13:19, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Invitation to discussion
Discussion here about my suggestion to re-point this redirect page. Comments invited. LarryJeff (talk) 16:34, 26 July 2011 (UTC)