Talk:Greatest Hits (Fleetwood Mac album)

Restored from redirect
I restored this to a proper article (someone had converted it to a redirect to the all-artists "Greatest Hits" dab). Anyone typing "Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits", which redirects here (*) is rather obviously searching for one of the Fleetwood Mac albums. I don't see how it helps to redirect to the generic Greatest Hits page for every artists and make them wade through it when their intent is quite clear(!)

In addition there were dab lines on each of the respective Fleetwood Mac compilation articles pointing here.

(*) Or did until a bot converted it only because *this* article had been converted to a redirect itself.

Ubcule (talk) 21:25, 28 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Please see User talk:Boleyn, any comments? Boleyn (talk) 19:21, 3 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Greatest Hits (disambiguation) is problematic, since it doesn't disambiguate the topics that could be titled "Greatest Hits", but rather sloughs them off to the non-dab "list of" article. Given its length, I understand the draw. Wherever this redirects, that target needs to list the Fleetwood Mac albums itself, and the redirect link needs to include the section for those album (so the reader lands directly on the page). Alternatively, this short dab could be moved to Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits and the other redirects retargeted. -- JHunterJ (talk) 19:44, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I've added an anchor in the list article (List_of_greatest_hits_albums and redirected there. Can we delete this unnatural variant now? (People rarely append "(topic)", with parens, when searching). And we don't want to encourage the ambiguous links this page would attract. --Cyber cobra (talk) 03:02, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

I would agree with either a deletion, or merge and redirect to relevant section of list article, for the reasons given above. Boleyn (talk) 13:37, 5 February 2012 (UTC)


 * An anchor is an acceptable solution (I should have considered that one myself), so long as we can include the disambiguation info that this one also includes. Ubcule (talk) 15:21, 5 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Additional; since everyone else appears to be happy with this anyway, I've gone ahead and also turned this page into a redirect (as well as Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits, which Cybercobra already did). Ubcule (talk) 15:53, 5 February 2012 (UTC)


 * One thing; while I'm happy with the redirects anyway, I note Cybercobra said "People rarely append "(topic)", with parens, when searching". Of course not- the expecation (and intention) was that most people would type "Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits", and- since that wasn't in the "standard" accepted WP title format- would be automatically redirected to Greatest Hits (Fleetwood Mac album). That way we could have our cake and eat it, though it's academic now anyway. :-) Ubcule (talk) 16:10, 5 February 2012 (UTC)