Talk:Dao (disambiguation)

Add: Dragon Age Origins —Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.229.116.238 (talk) 17:59, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Requested move 7 January 2018

 * 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. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: The histories of DAO, Dao and Dao (disambiguation) are muddied by multiple copy-paste content merges, though their move logs are clean and empty. Much as page moves are generally preferred, in this case I think another copy-paste is the best solution for making the history easiest to follow. Copying DAO → Dao (disambiguation) and redirecting Dao to Tao. – wbm1058 (talk) 00:35, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

DAO → Dao – Per WP:DABNAME. feminist (talk) 07:46, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Support In ictu oculi (talk) 08:58, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Support, most entries are written in title-case or lowercase. No such user (talk) 10:27, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Move to Dao (disambiguation) and redirect Dao to Tao per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. Google books results for Dao are overwhelmingly about Tao/Dao, the philosophical concept. -Zanhe (talk) 14:07, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Redirect Dao to Tao; support move to "Dao (disambiguation)" per Zanhe above. "Dao" pretty overwhelmingly refers to "Tao". Paintspot Infez (talk) 21:55, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Britannica supports the idea that Dao is the primary topic for Tao:
 * Dao CHINESE PHILOSOPHY Alternative Title: tao (Wade-Giles Romanization)
 * Tao COIN "The knife coins (tao) were about six inches (15 centimetres) long..." knife coins are related to dao (sword)?
 * So pinyin is dao and pinyin is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese in mainland China and to some extent in Taiwan. Wade–Giles was the system of transcription in the English-speaking world for most of the 20th century, in mainland China it has been entirely replaced by the Hànyǔ Pīnyīn system approved in 1958. – wbm1058 (talk) 14:29, 14 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Some data on page views might be helpful, but I'm inclined to agree that Dao should redirect to Tao. Dekimasu よ! 23:40, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Here's the |Tao|DAO|Beijing|Peking page views analysis. I don't know whether this is like Beijing, which I only knew as Peking for many years. It's hard to guess what those searching for "Dao" might be looking for, but with Tao the primary topic for the word then we could monitor for mislinks intended for another target – a significant number of these would then indicate that there is no primary topic. – wbm1058 (talk) 14:55, 15 January 2018 (UTC)


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Dab entries not in the dab
User:Bkonrad where is helpful to distinguish it from Dominion Observatory in Ottawa (even though that one is not known as DAO). Why would a reader be navigating to Dominion Observatory via "DAO"?! I think that reasoning for including more info than is necessary to disambiguate current entries has the answer itself that they wouldn't - ie as Dominion Observatory isn't in the dab, then we needn't disambiguate it. If you consider it useful, please just add the DO article to the see also, which then yes I'd agree with you. Else it fails concise descriptions in MOSDAB. Widefox ; talk 11:44, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * "Longer than necessary" is subjective. I fail to see how three additional words to clarify which Dominion Observatory in Canada this is is unhelpful. older ≠ wiser 12:11, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

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