Talk:Garbage collection (disambiguation)

''This page needs to be moved to a less misleading title, such as Garbage collection in memory management, or something like that. See naming conventions. --LMS''

Just because you think Garbage collection as a civic service is more important than Garbage collection as a memory management strategy? Obviously there is a context and bias problem, but I came to this page and found what I expected (I used to write garbage collectors for a living). I assume you did not? --drj Hmm. My comments were clearly written too hastily. I don't mean to be that harsh, but the fence has two sides, and people live on both sides of it. --drj

I used to be employed collecting trash, and I assume you did not :-)   But that is irrelevant. Rather, what is relevant is that there are many people using Wikipedia, with many different backgrounds and scopes of preconceived contexts. Garbage collection as a civic service should not go in as Garbage collection either. Garbage collection should be a short pointer page to both topics, each under separate articles.  They need clearly unambiguous terms to the general public in them. "Computer" should be in the title of the one (perhaps  Computer memory garbage collection) and something clear like "civic" or "municipal" in the other.  --Alan Millar

Split. --drj.

Requested move 5 April 2016

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The result of the move request was: Move. We have consensus that waste collection is the primary topic, so the dab page will be moved. Cúchullain t/ c 15:35, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

Garbage collection → Garbage collection (disambiguation) – Move to make way to redirect this title to its primary title topic, Waste collection. Garbage redirects to its primary topic, Municipal waste. Garbage collection, as a subtopic of Garbage, should point to the corresponding article about the collection of municipal waste. In terms of society and the scope of human history, of course, waste collection is also the much more important topic. bd2412 T 13:16, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Support Waste collection is clearly the primary topic and so it is logical that this page should become a redirect to it. Bazonka (talk) 17:58, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Support, good find and RM, per nom. Randy Kryn 18:36, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. Goldenshimmer (talk) 00:35, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Oppose – other meanings are very prominent, too. Disambiguation is good.  Dicklyon (talk) 02:30, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Actually it's not if it will tend to bring people to something other than what they are likely to be looking for. In the long run, this will have that effect. Also, there is only one other meaning on the page that is an actual title match to the concept of collecting garbage (the other one redirecting to Write amplification, an article with a different title). bd2412  T 03:35, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Oppose Per Dick. If I Google for "garbage collection" in a private session, then half the hits are about garbage collection (computer science) and half about waste collection. Both Garbage collection (computer science) and Waste collection have about 350 incoming links from mainspace. (Galaxy has over 4000, Samsung Galaxy less than 400.) Garbage collection (computer science) gets 568 page views per day, Waste collection 83. —Ruud 12:55, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Support due to obvious long-term significance. The concept of collecting trash has a long (if not particularly glamorous) history across many cultures and civilizations. It plays an important role in sanitation, which is a critical aspect of modern society. The relatively obscure computer science concept... less so. No doubt, to those who travel in circles with many computer programmers and engineers, it will seem like a thing that many people care about, but to the general public, this is not the case. Also, if I Google "galaxy" in a private session, at least half of the hits are about cell phones, which is a good example of why Google hits are such a poor guide for determining primary topics. Egsan Bacon (talk) 14:17, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * support Per the significance. Nohomersryan (talk) 13:47, 7 April 2016 (UTC)


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